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Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« on: April 30, 2020, 05:42:54 am »
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.

Amanda Mull     |     April 29, 2020

At first, Derek Canavaggio thought he would be able to ride out the coronavirus pandemic at home until things were safe. As a bar manager at the Globe in Athens, Georgia, Canavaggio hasn’t been allowed to work for weeks. Local officials in Athens issued Georgia’s first local shelter-in-place order on March 19, canceling the events that usually make spring a busy time for Athens bars and effectively eliminating the city’s rowdy downtown party district built around the University of Georgia. The state’s governor, Brian Kemp, followed in early April with a statewide shutdown.

But then the governor sent Canavaggio into what he calls “spreadsheet hell.” In an announcement last week, Kemp abruptly reversed course on the shutdown, ending many of his own restrictions on businesses and overruling those put in place by mayors throughout the state. On Friday, gyms, churches, hair and nail salons, and tattoo parlors were allowed to reopen, if the owners were willing. Yesterday, restaurants and movie theaters came back. The U-turn has left Georgians scrambling. Canavaggio has spent days crunching the numbers to figure out whether reopening his bar is worth the safety risk, or even feasible in the first place, given how persistent safety concerns could crater demand for a leisurely indoor happy hour. “We can’t figure out a way to make the numbers work to sustain business and pay rent and pay everybody to go back and risk their lives,” he told me. “If we tried to open on Monday, we’d be closed in two weeks, probably for good and with more debt on our hands.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/why-georgia-reopening-coronavirus-pandemic/610882/


Posted for entertainment purposes only.  The story starts off in the most liberal city in Georgia outside Atlanta, with a bar manager (not bar owner) contemplating whether to re-open a bar:

Canavaggio has spent days crunching the numbers to figure out whether reopening his bar is worth the safety risk, or even feasible in the first place, given how persistent safety concerns could crater demand for a leisurely indoor happy hour.

The primary factor here is whether your built-in customer base (UGA college students) are even in town.  (They're not).  But the bar manager doesn't even factor that into his decision.
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2020, 05:47:19 am »
btw, this is Governor Kemp's Public Health Director.  She's the one who made the call here.  She has a heck of a lot more medical expertise than do out-of-state liberal reporters.


Kathleen E. Toomey, M.D., M.P.H., was appointed commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health by Governor Brian Kemp in March 2019. As commissioner, Dr. Toomey oversees 159 county health departments in 18 health districts, and various public health programs.

Before her appointment to commissioner, Dr. Toomey served as Director of the Fulton County Department of Health and Wellness. She led the department’s transition to become the Fulton County Board of Health and continuing as district health director until December 2018.

An epidemiologist and board-certified family practitioner, Dr. Toomey’s career in public health is long and distinguished, holding key leadership positions with the State of Georgia and both national and international leadership positions with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). She served as the CDC’s Country Director in Botswana. In addition to other leadership positions with the CDC, Dr. Toomey previously served as the Director of the Division of Public Health with the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

Dr. Toomey earned a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Smith College. As a Fulbright Scholar, she studied indigenous healing practices in Peru. Dr. Toomey earned her M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Harvard University. In 1985, Dr. Toomey was selected as a Pew Health Policy Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. While in San Francisco, she served on committees looking at the initial cases of emergent HIV.

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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2020, 06:47:12 am »
They might want to get longer bendy straws...

Reopening was optional if I read that right. If it does not look like a good business decision, wait.
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2020, 03:48:25 pm »
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Dr. Toomey was selected as a Pew Health Policy Research Fellow at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. While in San Francisco, she served on committees looking at the initial cases of emergent HIV.

While UCSF is not as well known as Stanford, it is one of the premier teaching hospitals in the western US, if not the entire US. A doctor (and relevant staff, of course) there probably saved one of my children's lives.

We will never have a zero-risk time wrt this coronavirus. So the State of Georgia has made a risk-benefit decision, as has states that remain more or less shut down. I'm hoping the people of GA serve this elitist, Amanda Mull, a meal of her own words. Not that I think she'd eat them and admit she was wrong if she was proven wrong.
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #4 on: April 30, 2020, 09:03:47 pm »
How many people are going to lose their lives if the economy is NOT shored up?  We already have ~33 million lost jobs, millions more claims that have not been processed, and a gargantuan pile of layoffs that will occur when the PPP expires. 

I cannot believe the media are so stupid.  What they are doing is malicious. 
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #5 on: April 30, 2020, 10:29:40 pm »
Quote from: cato potatoe on April 30, 2020, 09:03:47 pm
How many people are going to lose their lives if the economy is NOT shored up?  We already have ~33 million lost jobs, millions more claims that have not been processed, and a gargantuan pile of layoffs that will occur when the PPP expires. 

I cannot believe the media are so stupid.  What they are doing is malicious.
You forget. They will still be making far too much money for what they do.
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2020, 10:55:33 pm »
So, how's it going in Georgia? An update:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-reports-lowest-number-covid-patients-in-a-month

Georgia reports lowest number of COVID patients in a month
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Saturday that the state had the lowest number of hospitalized coronavirus patients it has seen in just over a month.

"Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th," Kemp tweeted.

MSM hysteria mongers hardest hit.
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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2020, 11:07:07 pm »
Quote from: PeteS in CA on May 11, 2020, 10:55:33 pm
So, how's it going in Georgia? An update:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-reports-lowest-number-covid-patients-in-a-month

Georgia reports lowest number of COVID patients in a month
By Nick Givas | Fox News
MSM hysteria mongers hardest hit.

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Re: Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2020, 11:12:44 pm »
What? Didn't they read the Guidestones? /sarc
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