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Hello and good morning America and other people around the globe!So Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is proposing to offer a new nonstop service to the Great Beyond: He has a bold plan to turn his state into the place to die.Kemp, a Republican and an ally of President Trump, just called for the reopening within days of his state’s gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body-art studios, barbers, nail salons, cosmetologists, aestheticians, beauty schools, massage therapists, theaters, private social clubs and dine-in restaurants. Shelter-in-place order for Georgia until April 13He’s doing this even though the state ranks near last in testing, even though it’s not clear that covid-19 cases are declining there, and even knowing “we’re probably going to have to see our cases continue to go up,” as Kemp himself said.Then again, Kemp, clearly jealous of states with larger outbreaks, (Mass Grave Envy is totally a thing, in Republican circles at least) clearly gambles on the premise that the infectious disease experts are idiots, while the mulleted creeps waving confederate flags have had it right all along.Public health experts fear coronavirus will burn through Georgia like nothing has since William Tecumseh Sherman. But Kemp is making a big gamble that his constituents wouldn’t want to swap places with anyone, and that tourists will be dying to get to Georgia in any class of travel — economy, economy plus or intensive care — as the Peachtree State remakes itself as the Petri State. Definition of PETRI DISHWhen gyms and fitness centers reopen, residents of Georgia will have a whole new range of exercise classes to help them flatten the curve, including the total-body workout CrossImmunity and a new aerobics-and-flexibility boot camp called SuperSpreader.Newly reopened aestheticians will offer the latest in antibody sculpting, and skilled therapists statewide plan to offer discounts on deep lung-tissue massage. Learn How to Start a Career in Body Sculpting TodayThe return of bowling leagues is bound to increase the strike rate among those who participate, leaving relatively few to spare. The future of coronavirus is up to all of usReopened theaters will show reruns of several R-naught rated features, such as “Contagion,” “Outbreak” and “Carriers.” 20 Virus Outbreak Movies, From 'The Seventh Seal' to '12 Monkeys'Diners will crowd into wet-market-to-table restaurants to experience a growing sampling of zoonotic dishes (ACE2 proteins offered for vegans), and mixologists will experiment with heart-stopping cocktails of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin.As “private social clubs” reopen, the Elks and Lions will develop herd immunity, while Legionnaires will flourish. Legionnaires' disease - Symptoms and causesCosmetologists, again among the essential workers, will help the citizens of Georgia replace their N95s with exfoliating facial masks guaranteed to enhance viral shedding. Coronavirus (COVID-19) Outbreak GlossaryNobody is as far out there as Kemp. Jimmy Carter, who served as Georgia’s governor before becoming president, may have been a peanut farmer. But Kemp is an actual nut. Earlier this month, when he announced one of the last stay-at-home orders in the nation, he stated that he hadn’t known “until the last 24 hours” that asymptomatic people could spread the coronavirus. This had been known for a couple of months to anyone paying attention. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/02/georgia-gov-brian-kemp-who-resisted-strict-coronavirus-measures-says-he-just-learned-it-transmitted-asymptomatically/But Kemp is not without guile. As Georgia’s secretary of state, he purged half a million names from voting rolls — then beat his opponent for governor by only 55,000 votes. Now he seems to have embarked on a new purge: inducing his constituents to shuffle off this mortal coil.Perhaps he should abandon all pretense and turn his reopening into a parade and festival?You and a guest are invited toLIBERATE GEORGIA!The Grand Reopening of the Petri StateGrand Marshal: President TrumpDress: PPE optional.As a promotion, Georgia could offer ventilators to the first 100 hotel guests to register (room service would offer supplementary oxygen at no cost to all others). Atlanta’s own Coca-Cola would sponsor festivities, using the new slogan “Share a Coke with Covid-19.” The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra would perform a new variation on Berlioz, “The Damnation of Fauci.” Trump and Kemp would lead a packed house at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena in burning their face masks the way feminists (apocryphally) burned bras and Vietnam War protesters actually burned draft cards. This Photo Shows the Vietnam Draft-Card Burning That Started a MovementThere would be no containing the excitement! It would be an unmitigated success! And Kemp’s experiment would go viral in truly historic ways.This answer is in part attributed to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/21/georgia-leads-race-become-americas-no-1-death-destination/Word!

Elections have consequences both for the people who lose and for the people who win.The decisions by the governors of South Carolina and Georgia aren't happening in isolation. They stand at the end of decades of Republican office holders who were elected by Republican voters to pursue policies weakening the social safety net and starve government. They don’t have the ability to do anything but try and coerce the working poor to go back to work without any provisions for health insurance or governmental assistance.Although they have piously stated, “that anyone who doesn't feel safe should stay home”. As several others have observed, the reality is that once the statewide shelter at home orders are lifted, workers will not be eligible for unemployment benefits if their employer reopens and calls them back to work. Which means that for millions of Americans in those states the choice will be between staying home with no government assistance or risking infection for a job and a paycheck.Lets look at the state of Georgia. Their governor was very slow to impose a “shelter at home” mandate and, in his plan to reopen businesses this week, is being very aggressive about getting people back to work. Is this decision justified? This map of the continuing spread of Covid-19 in the state would seem to indicate that it is not:Clearly, Covid-19 has spread to almost every county in the state over the last six weeks. Covid-19 is not “contained” in the state of Georgia, it is everywhere. Additionally, and perhaps more importantly, the rate of new infections has also not declined:Which means that social distancing practices in Georgia have still not reached the level required to “flatten the curve” and bring down the daily number of new infections. Experts have argued that the target for relaxing statewide shutdowns should be about 20 new daily cases for every million residents. This is regarded as a “controllable” level that won’t force a state back into shut down mode. Over the past week, Georgia has had an average daily rate of 74 new cases per million residents.Governor Kemp’s rush to reopen is especially puzzling given that Georgia was one of the first states to have a “super-spreader” incident of the coronavirus. On Feb. 29, hundreds of people gathered in the city of Albany to remember Andrew Jerome Mitchell, a retired janitor. In the following weeks, it became clear that someone at the funeral had been a carrier of coronavirus. Entire families fell ill and dozens died as the infection spread through the area. In some of the counties surrounding Albany, almost as many people have died from coronavirus since mid-March as died from heart disease, cancer and all other causes combined over the same period in 2018.Even worse is the growing realization of what are the mortality risk factors for Covid-19. While public health officials and researchers still haven’t nailed down exactly how underlying conditions can make Covid-19 infections more dangerous, studies have pointed out the large numbers of gravely ill patients with underlying health problems. The Georgia Department of Public Health in fact lists diabetes and heart and lung disease as potential risk factors for dying of Covid-19.Georgia looks like a giant hot spot on maps of all three of those conditions, with communities in the southern part of the state showing especially high incidence rates. The state ranks 19th in share of adults with lung disease, 15th in heart disease, and roughly 1 in 8 have diabetes:If Covid-19 continues it’s spread throughout the state thousands will be risking infection and possible death in the next month. Yet Governor Kemp thinks it is a good idea to encourage people to go back to work.Of course he has qualified this policy by telling people that they need to “be safe” and follow CDC guidelines. This will immunize him from any deaths that happen as a result of his policy, because he will be able to blame the victims by saying they clearly didn’t observe the safety guidelines closely enough. Those that don’t get sick will be celebrated as “smart and brave” and those who die will be labeled “careless and sloppy”. The state will offer no assistance in the form of free testing or health insurance guarantees for Covid-19 illness. Which is particularly callous given that Georgia has so many uninsured:Many have argued, “my body, my choice” and tried to spin this as an issue of “personal freedom”. However, Covid-19 is extremely infectious. It is becoming more and more clear that it is at least as infectious as smallpox and possibly as infectious as measles, some of the most infectious viruses known. If you work in an enclosed environment long enough, with someone who is infected, you almost certainly will get infected. Masks will slow it down but for something this infectious they will not stop it. Unless you are in full protective gear (face shield, mask, gloves, and gown) if you are exposed to enough Covid-19 carriers you will get infected.We need to stop thinking in terms of returning to normal and start thinking in terms of getting organized to best get through this. These reopening orders are going to result in thousands of people dying unnecessarily. Their deaths will be on these governors and on the party they represent.ADDENDUM April 29thI saw this tweet from a GA restaurant owner last night, it eloquently sums up the position they are being placed in:

Generally, if you’re in custody, the costs of any medical care are the responsibility of the agency having custody of the prisoner. This is not, however, a great way to get free medical care. Health care in the correctional setting generally sucks. There aren’t enough health care providers, not enough funding, and a lot of discretionary decisions (and some that shouldn’t be discretionary) get made in favor of saving money.When I was a cop, one of the assignments I was given was to drive to the hospital and release a prisoner from custody. He had been arrested on a felony charge, and had been injured in the process of attempting to escape. The injury was severe enough that surgery was pending. The city decided that they didn’t want to be on the hook for the costs of the surgery and hospitalization, and directed that he be released. The moment I told him he was no longer under arrest, he became responsible for the bill.I think the plan was to re-arrest and prosecute him after he got out of the hospital (double jeopardy doesn’t attach until the trial starts), but I didn’t follow the case and don’t know if that happened.