Georgia Infections Jump

Fake News:

APOCALYPSE POSTPONED (LIBERAL PUNDITS HARDEST HIT): An Orgy of Plague Death, Deferred. Caseloads have declined in Florida and Georgia since the lockdowns were eased by Republican governors who were denounced for ignoring “the science.”

In the Atlantic, Amanda Mull’s dispatch anticipating Georgia’s apocalyptic future was entitled simply, “Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice: The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy.” According to her reporting, though Georgians chafed under lockdown, there was no serious insurrectionist sentiment among the people when Kemp announced his intention to relax restrictions on service industries. “Georgians are now the largely unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine,” she wrote, “sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague.”​

“Public health experts fear coronavirus will burn through Georgia like nothing has since William Tecumseh Sherman,” read a florid analogy from the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank. His tongue-in-cheek piece, “Georgia leads the race to become America’s No. 1 Death Destination,” toyed with the notion that Peach State residents were dying to work out at their local gyms including “CrossImmunity” and “Superspreader” boot camp. Cosmetologists could perform a “deep lung-tissue massage.” Restaurant-goers could enjoy “wet-market-to-table restaurants to experience a growing sampling of zoonotic dishes.” This columnist clearly enjoyed the time he spent crafting witty prose around the prospect of plague.​

Those who did not strike either an authoritative or flippant tone struck a more somber note. “Mark this day,” Ron Fournier wrote on April 20. “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.”​

 

Florida’s DeSantis was, according to state Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, “reckless, premature, and irresponsible” to allow municipalities to reopen their coasts in mid-April. When stores began reopening, the Miami Herald editorial board accused the governor of serving up his state’s citizens as a sacrifice in return for some imagined “political favor” from the president. As recently as this week, the Washington Post’s Ben Terris and Josh Dawsey described DeSantis as the prototypical “Florida Man”—a “devil-may-care and slightly oafish, beloved but not admired” cliché of a human being.​

Actually, Florida Man is more admired than the mainstream media. And apparently has a better grasp of “the science.”

 

FAKE NEWS: Spot The Difference: Two Governors Reopened Their States, Only One Was Accused of ‘Human Sacrifice.’

 

FAKE NEWS: Remember How Everybody Was Going to Die Because Georgia Ended Lockdowns?

“As of 10 a.m. today, Georgia’s per-capita death rate from COVID-19 (measured in deaths per million residents) was 150, which was 88.5% lower than the rate of New York’s death rate of 1,417. Oh, and just for your information, the daily number of U.S. coronavirus deaths nationwide peaked at 2,683 — on April 21, which was 25 days ago. The highest daily number of deaths in the past week was 1,772 on Wednesday (May 13), and that number was 34% below the April 21 peak.”​

Neither the models nor the modelers have performed exactly brilliantly. And as for the Fake News media, well, it’s been total garbage.

 

https://dph.georgia.gov/covid-19-daily-status-report
Looking at the counties, some near the majority black ones, the deaths per 100,000 are higher than for the black ones. The graph of time is better, still going down. Interesting is the graph showing by race, whites (like where Newt moved to) have surpassed blacks in spikes.

Maybe the blacks have herd immunity now and whites took their masks off...

 

I wish folks were more diligent with the masks/gloves/disinfectant. I drove off from a coffee kiosk where they were serving with neither.

 

I'm noticing more masks but so many are garbage for actual protection of the wearer if someone sneezed or coughed really bad within range.

In the time it took to order some Chinese masks, KN95 from China and get them, our stores have none in my area. I searched again today, Walmart and Home Depot now show them online, but none available in store.

 

Yes. They are essentially sneeze guards. When N95's are again available, I will stock up. Folks need to get back to work, maintain distancing, hand wash, disinfect, glove and stay outside as much as possible.

There are some studies coming out from contact tracing showing how involved HVAC is. Good filters, UV or other additions that kill viruses as they circulate through, adding outside air to the mix, are all things we will see improvements on. In the meantime we aren't going to sit home and wait for a government check.

Democrats Promise To Chew Up Cash, Tenderly Regurgitate It Into Mouths Of Voters.

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats promised on Friday that they would provide all Americans with large, warm piles of gently digested cash that they would personally regurgitate into every citizen's mouth one at a time. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that she would personally be having her jaw hinge loosed so that she could emit larger clumps of the green mush to be easily dropped into the gaping mouths of hungry constituents.

"Trillions of dollars can be very hard to swallow," Pelosi explained at a press conference Friday morning. "We're here to make it go down nice and easy with lots of healthy proteins and a protective coating that makes this latest stimulus easier to digest and full of helpful microbiomes."​

Some showed concern that, when democrats initially chewed up the mound of cash and swallowed it before regurgitation, not all of the money would come back up. Senator Chuck Schumer explained, "It's a common part of the distribution process that the one doing the feeding will digest a portion of the pulped cash. It's all part of the natural process. Nobody needs nourishment like the one doing the feeding."

 

Georgia still looking good. So far, reopening a lot of businesses doesn't seem to have made much of an impact, positive or negative.

 

Yup. 36 days past peak and continuing to drop nicely.

https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/georgia

 

Yup. I do that all the time..

If they're sloppy...well that's where you catch it

 

It's easy to make the number look good when you BACK DATE them...for a while

 

If you say so.

 

https://www.ajc.com/news/state--reg...uses-critics-cry-foul/182PpUvUX9XEF8vO11NVGO/

“It’s just cuckoo,” said state Rep. Scott Holcomb, D-Atlanta, who sent the letter outlining his concerns to the governor’s office on Monday. The bar chart that stirred the latest controversy was revised shortly afterwards. “I don’t know how anyone can defend this graph as not being misleading. I really don’t.”

A spokeswoman for DPH told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the chart was incorrect because of an error in how it sorted dates. An aide to the governor told Holcomb that a software vendor caused the problem, Holcomb said. A tweet from a Kemp spokesman said the data team behind the chart published it because they thought it would be “helpful.”

 

https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news...ay-11/93-552bab15-8073-434f-967b-0c8be13b213c

They are BACKDATING the infection numbers...trying to make it look like the infections are dropping when they are doing the opposite

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Recently, the state started backdating cases, graphing them based not on when they're reported, but when symptoms first began.

So, for example, if you get diagnosed with COVID-19 today but your symptoms started 10 days ago, the state will graph your case 10 days ago."

 

So when the infection rates were flat...going into the April 24 opening...they now look like they were increasing (why would they open up when cases were increasing?) . But by moving those RECENT cases BACK...they hide the fact that they are NOW increasing

 

Aren't you happy to be living in the very fine state of New York instead of a crappy state like Georgia?

 

I'm not stupid enough to believe that one state getting stupid and allowing the infection to run riot wouldn't affect other states.

It CAME across two oceans. You don't think it could cross state lines?

 

Sure, it can. But 46 states have already started reopening, not just Georgia. Even New York.

Only Illinois, New Jersey, Michigan and Delaware (where Joe Biden is locked in his basement) and D.C. still haven't made a move.

New York beaches are opening for Memorial Day weekend. You planning to go get a little sun?




https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ap-coronavirus.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

 

Fake News:
AN ORGY OF PLAGUE DEATH, DEFERRED: Florida and Georgia Were Right, and Their Critics Were Wrong.

Ron Fournier, and the rest of “Our Nevermind Media,” hardest hit.

 

News flash on the sun..... I can get all I want in my own backyard, without the associated sand rash...

If I can assume you are from Texas, here's some happy news.... highest single day of new cases in Texas yesterday... But it's just bidness as usual for your governor, it seems

https://www.yahoo.com/news/texas-reported-highest-single-day-143341217.html

Not that I blame the state governors fully.... I think you gotta be nuts to eat in a restaurant or go to a movie theater this early in the re-open...

 

Yep. Outbreak in a couple of meat packing plants in the panhandle. The governor is on a statewide mission to do massive testing of all the known and identified trouble areas: meat packing plants, nursing homes and prisons. He's a smart man.

https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/gov...ovides-details-on-increased-cases-in-amarillo

 

As Red State (for now) governors go, he certainly seems to be on the upper end...

That Lt. Governor however, not sure what's going on there...

Texas has a huge population (and a larger area), but is still closer to the bottom in per capita testing by state, per this site..

https://testing.predictcovid.com/

Work to do...

 

How does that not bother you?

"A couple meat packing plants"????

Why does that make it of no concern?

 

The testing is secondary to the TRACING. Because it's the associations, which then move about in the community, who are the real problem. The initial cluster is identified and quarantined .. but what about the friends/family members of someone who came into contact with the cluster? People who could be spreading it around your communities. And what about every person who comes into contact with THEM? No known link to the cluster in any way .... yet they're spreading it around in oblivion.