Georgia defies predictions of COVID-19 resurgence

[timendres]

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On April 24, as more than 25,000 Americans continued to test positive for COVID-19 each day, Georgia became the first U.S. state to initiate the fraught process known as “reopening.”

 

The move was controversial, to say the least. In the New York Times, Keren Landman, an Atlanta-based physician, epidemiologist and journalist, accused Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of potentially “setting us up for a punishing new wave of infections” by volunteering Georgia as “the nation’s canary in this particularly terrifying coal mine.”

 

But now 26 days have passed since the state started to reopen — and that punishing new wave of infections has not materialized. In fact, according to a database maintained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Georgia’s rolling seven-day average of new daily cases — an important metric that helps to balance out daily fluctuations in reporting — has fallen for three weeks in a row.

 

https://news.yahoo.com/as-more-states-reopen-georgia-defies-predictions-of-coronavirus-resurgence-whats-the-lesson-for-the-rest-of-the-country-164734815.html

Edited May 21, 2020 by timendres

[yuyiinthesky]

Good news indeed!

 

May be some of the scaremongers and 2nd wave predictors start to review their thoughts, and open at least a tiny little bit to the possibility that the worst is over already, no matter what we do.

Edited May 21, 2020 by yuyiinthesky

[timendres]

5 minutes ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Good news indeed!

 

May be some of the scaremongers and 2nd wave predictors start to review their thoughts, and open at least a tiny little bit to the possibility that the worst is over already, no matter what we do.

What many of those people fail to account for is that humans are not automatons. When the first wave really began, no one really knew the risks. Now, people know what they are up against and take precautions. It is not 100%, of course, but it makes a very big difference in slowing the spread of the virus.

[Mama Noodle]

Florida doing much the same too, even though they were absolutely ridiculed in the media and by the left for trying to open back up. 

 

3 minutes ago, timendres said:

What many of those people fail to account for is that humans are not automatons. When the first wave really began, no one really knew the risks. Now, people know what they are up against and take precautions. It is not 100%, of course, but it makes a very big difference in slowing the spread of the virus.

 

What people failed to account for (NY, PA, IL, NJ - most of the US's death count) was protecting the elderly at the onset. One piece of data that we ALL knew was that the elderly were extremely high risk and the virus was raging in European elderly care homes. 

 

Funnily enough, the states I listed above absolutely failed at this yet are regarded as examples in the media on how to operate. 

[Mama Noodle]

14 minutes ago, yuyiinthesky said:

May be some of the scaremongers and 2nd wave predictors start to review their thoughts, and open at least a tiny little bit to the possibility that the worst is over already, no matter what we do.

 

They absolutely will not admit to anything. Right now the game is to use the pandemic as a reason for state bailouts in lefty states. 

 

The media doesn't operate on good news, they operate on blood and death plus republican states bad, Cuomo and NY good. 

[timendres]

1 hour ago, Mama Noodle said:

What people failed to account for (NY, PA, IL, NJ - most of the US's death count) was protecting the elderly at the onset. One piece of data that we ALL knew was that the elderly were extremely high risk and the virus was raging in European elderly care homes. 

 

Funnily enough, the states I listed above absolutely failed at this yet are regarded as examples in the media on how to operate. 

Could that be because those are known Democrat voting states? Nah... couldn't be.

[Mama Noodle]

7 minutes ago, timendres said:

Could that be because those are known Democrat voting states? Nah... couldn't be.

 

Of course thats the reason. Even a global pandemic won't shame a democrat.