Brian Kemp's plan to re-open Georgia businesses flies in the face of what epidemiologists would suggest
Kemp tried a lockdown to contain the coronavirus — for a hot minute. Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP/Shutterstock When Brian Kemp was running for governor of Georgia in 2018, he made a point of boasting that he enjoyed offending people who didn’t share his right-wing views, calling himself a “politically incorrect conservative.
Churches will be allowed to resume in-person services as well. And Kemp doesn’t care if the secular-socialist hippie scientists and public-health experts don’t like it: It’s either a huge gamble for Kemp or a blunt decision that jobs and profits matter more than lives. As CNN notes, it flies in the face of what epidemiologists would suggest:
Dr. Harry Heiman of Georgia State University’s School of Public Health said he was skeptical that Georgia was ready for a “worst-case scenario” if the disease re-emerges. And Dr. Marc Lipsitch of Harvard University said it’s “almost for certain” Georgia would be hit again by another wave of the disease.
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