Too bad we have the festering sore that’s Atlanta. Fortunately, we have a good governor. He was castigated by the mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, for reopening the state too soon. Fine. let her continue dragging Atlanta down. The rest of the state will do just fine. Of course, Keisha will be there with her hand out looking for assistance from the state when this shit is over.
Erick Erickson, a reformed Never Trumper, had a good article about this.
On April 20, 2020, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp became one of the first governors in America to announce plans to reopen his state. He had been one of the last to impose a shelter-in-place order. Critics had blasted him for waiting so long. He did not impose shelter-in-place until the beginning of April.
On April 20, 2020, Kemp announced he would begin letting certain small businesses that were mostly sole proprietors with direct, personal relationships with customers reopen on April 25, 2020. Those included barber shops, nail salons, tattoo parlors, and, curiously, bowling alleys. What the media ignored was that Kemp put such stringent criteria in place for reopening that most of those businesses still could not open.
Of course they ignored that. It didn’t fit the narrative.
Bowling alleys, for example, typically met the technical criteria for a business that could reopen, but practically could not reopen because of the stringent health and safety protocols the governor put in place. Kemp also refused to end the shelter-in-place order early, necessitating that businesses could begin reopening, but customers could not actually get out and about. Again, the media failed to note that.
On May 1, 2020, the shelter-in-place order expired for most people. Restaurants and barbershops reopened, but under new protocols with to-go orders, face masks for barbers, etc. In a revision to his order this week, Kemp required that bars, night clubs, and live music venues must remain closed until June along with overnight summer camps.
Between April 20 and May 1, a recurring trending “hashtag” on Twitter was “KempHasBloodOnHisHands.” Democrat politicians and others assailed Kemp, claiming people were going to die because of him. We are more than three weeks from this tweet:
Ron Fournier
@ron_fournier
Mark this day. Because two and three weeks from now, the Georgia death toll is blood on his hands.And as Georgians move around the country, they’ll spread more death and economic destruction
Niles Edward Francis @NilesGApol#BREAKING: Georgia @GovKemp announces that the following businesses can reopen this Friday…
Gyms
Fitness centers
Bowling Alleys
Body Arch Studios
Barber shops
Cosmetologists
Hair designers
Nail salons
Massage therapists
April 20th 2020
Blood on his hands! People are gonna die! Let me know when we reach the death toll of New York. Or New Jersey. Or Michigan. Or Illinois. Or Taxachusetts. Or Mexifornia. All blue states. We’re doing pretty well here in Georgia and Kemp doesn’t have anywhere near the “blood on his hands” as Liberal icon Andrew Cuomo.
Ron Fournier, formerly of the Associated Press, was not alone in that sentiment. Stacey Abrams took to MSNBC to blast Brian Kemp. President Trump criticized him for reopening saying he “strongly disagreed” with Kemp. The Atlantic ran a hysterically themed article that Georgia was experimenting in human sacrifice. The subtitle of the piece was, “The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.”
We are now not just into the fourth week since Brian Kemp said the state could reopen and fourteen days past the shelter-in-place order expired, we are now past the last major revision of the IHME model, which happened yesterday.
The IHME model is the most widely cited and relied upon model for COVID-19. The White House and Georgia’s Governor rely on it. On May 12, the IHME model predicted Georgia would still have hundreds of daily new cases into August and would have 1,783 daily new cases on June 12, 2020.
Yesterday, the model updated and the update was significant. Georgia is now expected to have no cases of the virus by August and only 367 new daily cases on June 12.
Yep! The blood is flowing here in Georgia.
Where does Brian Kemp go to get his apology?
He ain’t gonna get it from the Fake News Media. He ain’t gonna get it from Abrams Tank. We sure dodged a bullet there. I shudder to think what would have happened if she was governor of Georgia and was running things.
I’m glad I live in a red state.
Being right doesn’t excuse his racism for defeating Vice President Abrams. I’m waiting on that one.
Down here on the coast we’ve had few deaths. In my county the only death was a fairly old black pastor who caught it while out ministering to sick people. Sad, as the president would say.
Same thing here in Florida. Gov. DeSantis tried to balance Florida’s service economy with people’s safety, based on what was known at the beginning, and took a huge beating for it. Now, he’s doing a staged re-opening of the state, and is taking a beating for that too. I think he’s done the best he could do, based on what the “experts” told everyone. I am some glad we live in a red state too.
I used to live in a red state, Virginia. But all the leaches and Karens in NOVA turned blue. I hear we have a chance at turnaround next cycle.
One of the positive aspects of the lock down has been the discrediting of the term “experts”. As I have said before, an “expert” is someone who makes 3 correct guesses in a row and is more than 500 miles from home. We’re now finding out that the “experts” are probably the biggest group of dumbsh!ts in the world. Just look at Fauci and the IHME. Educated idiots, all of them.
Yeah, these “experts” know about as much as the self-proclaimed “climate experts” to whom we’ve been exposed over the years, don’t they?
Greta Thunberg is a high school dropout with documented mental issues. How a high school dropout can become an expert in anything except under-employment simply baffles me. Then there’s the bartender from New Yawk, the OTHER mental midget, AOC, whom Groper Joe Biden now wants as his advisor on global warming.
A confederacy of dunces making it very clear that sanity never figures into their politics.
BTW if you haven’t read Confederacy of Dunces, check it out. Excellent, funny book and the only one the author wrote.
We need to thank Greta Thunberg for performing valuable scientific research on the “Spectrum”. Since others believe in the “climate change” garbage like her, but not all are autistic like her, this provides evidence that the “Spectrum” is wider than just autism, and the other believers in “climate change” are simply at a different wavelength on the “Spectrum” than she.
I like your way of thinkin’, sir.
Hooray! I live in a red state under a Governor and Legislature, as opposed to a blue state with a Commissar and Politburo.
The more Wretched Gretchen Whitmer punishes our state for daring to oppose her high-handedness, the more likely that Michigan will become a red state in the near future. See, when a barber dared oppose her, and won a court hearing, the Economy-Waster-in-Chief had his license suspended…without a hearing. Then the censors at Faceplant and Tw*tter took down sites opposing Whitmer. Free speech is not allowed for conservatives, just ask them.
FYI — everything I’ve sent you in the past 8 hours has come back as undeliverable and tagged “Connection Refused.”
I can’t figger it out. You’re not on my blocked sender list. I’ll keep looking at it.
The items I sent today haven’t been rejected . . . so far.
Maybe just a germanium fart.
Here in the Peoples Republik of Kahlifonia , Commissar Newsome is allowing surfing at the beaches but not swimming. ???????
How does Commissar Newsom enforce surfing but no swimming? Is there a shark waiting to eat you if you fall off of your surfboard?
. . . great up here in western SoDak, too, Denny. Hope we don’t get screwed by emigrants from blue states like Colorado has. Weather hereabouts tends to keep the less hardy types away.
Mt. Rushmore is in Western So. Dakota. If I were a good cartoonist, I would draw a cartoon of today’s Dimocrat faces, placing them on the “back” side of Mt. Rushmore, halfway down on the “cheeks” of the Presidents.