Milbank's Bunk: Georgia Defies Liberal '#1 Death Destination' Predictions

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Georgia became an "experiment in human sacrifice" and "leads the race to become America's no. 1 Death Destination."

Those were among the many warnings from the mainstream media in April in reaction to the announcement by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp lifting many of the lockdown restrictions on April 24 that had been imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak.  Of course, you won't be seeing much of those doom and gloom predictions now since, nearly a month later, those dire prognostications simply did not come to pass. In fact, Georgia, along with other states such as Florida, are seeing a decline in the rate of coronavirus cases.

To get an idea of just how much media hysteria was whipped up to engage in "shutdown shaming" ("shut shaming?") of Georgia let us look at a couple of dire examples from Atlantic magazine and the perpetually hysterical Dana Milbank of the Washington Post. The Atlantic horror tale spun by Amanda Mull on April 29 spun a particularly gruesome tale of the Peachtree State: "Georgia’s Experiment in Human Sacrifice." The subtitle is equally foreboding: "The state is about to find out how many people need to lose their lives to shore up the economy."

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2020/05/15/media-predictions-doom-georgia-lifting-lockdown