Posted on 05/04/2020 4:05:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
This is a tale, not of two cities, but of two states, and two governors. Both states began reopening their economies last week as the worst of the Chinese flu appears to be over, except for a few isolated hotspots. Both states are reopening in a similar fashion, taking baby steps rather than a full gallop.
One state is Georgia, the other is Colorado. Georgia has 10.6 million people, Colorado a little more than half that number. The virus stats favor Georgia, but only by a small amount. According to the Real Clear Politics Coronavirus tracker, Georgia has 27,733 confirmed cases compared to 15,768 in Colorado, consistent with their population difference. Georgia fares better in deaths per million population, at 110 compared to Colorado at 142.
Both states slowly reopened their shuttered economies last week. Georgia allowed gyms, barber shops, hair salons, tattoo parlors, and bowling alleys to resume operations. Not willy-nilly business as usual, but with standard precautions which have unfortunately become our new normal for the foreseeable future. These include temperature checks, symptom screening, clients waiting in their cars, social distancing, masks, disinfection, and so on.
Restaurants also took a small step forward, moving from curbside delivery to actually letting customers dine inside, but with caveats including “Limited seating, spread out tables, and lots of hand sanitizer.” How soon until someone confuses hand sanitizer with pancake syrup or salad dressing and blames President Trump?
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Ah, Americans...
All too many of whom, in the maturity of their nation, and in the fullness of time, became soft, and hesitant, and tentative, and came to fear Liberty.
How we lack a Significant National Challenge to stir our imaginations and our vigor.
“Safety,” it appears, is paramount.
Never forget we have a hysterical media who have hyped the virus against all reason.
“Never forget we have a hysterical media who have hyped the virus against all reason.”
All of us are being bombarded with the same media BS. Why are some so frightened while others simply get angry? What causes some people to latch on to panic and hysteria laced media rhetoric and crumble (so many here on FR fit into this category) while others are willing to seriously question and disagree with the fear mongering?
Democrats love the feeling they get when they panic—they are chicken littles. Conservatives not so much.
Meanwhile over the border from Georgia in North Carolina, we have 43 deaths per million (only 15 states have lower death rates) and Cooper keeps extending our stay at home orders 2 weeks at a time. The current order expires on Friday. I fully expect he will extend it again due to not making progress on all of his targets. At this rate we might make it out of phase 1 by the 4th of July.
Just to your north and west; the state of Tennessee had ONE DEATH from coronavirus yesterday. ONE.
Never forget the Freepers who did the same.
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