Morning Reads for Tuesday, March 17
Good morning, and happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Here is where you can find information about COVID-19 in Georgia, including the tally of cases and deaths, which is updated daily at noon, which symptoms to look for, what to do if you suspect you may be infected with, or have been exposed to COVID-19, and the number – (844) 442-2681 – to call if you have these symptoms, and BEFORE BEFORE BEFORE you visit an ER, Urgent Care center, or doctor’s office.
- Here’s a recap of yesterday’s Special Session of the General Assembly, featuring your intrepid correspondent.
- Here are more details on the authority that was granted to the Governor by the General Assembly. The House and Senate will reconvene on April 15, 2020.
- In the Governor’s first act with his newly-granted authority, he ordered the closing of all public K-12 schools and colleges in Georgia through the end of March.
- While it is critically important that you not go out and about unless it’s absolutely necessary, and if you so absolutely no signs of illness, when you do need to make a grocery run, there will be plenty of food.
- Plans for drive-through COVID-19 tests in Valdosta.
- A glimpse of what might come? Residents in several San Francisco-area counties are ordered to shelter in place.
- A look inside the Delta Airlines command center as the impact of COVID-19 unfurled across the travel industry.
- The impact COVID-19 on Atlanta’s adult entertainment scene is profound (but you can still get take-out food from Magic City).
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Can the Gov use his emergency powers to order the General Assembly not convene 15 April?
Based on my trip to Kroger yesterday, it’s going to be a at least a few days before many food items will be readily available, but there’s plenty of most items. I anticipate more than a week for disinfecting type stuff. The country needs about a billion packages of disinfecting wipes.
I think I have pointed this out here before. I’ve brought it to the attention of my General Assembly representation prior to at least the last two sessions, most recently in December independent of coronavirus.
As of my last research a year and a half ago or so, Georgia has the third worst unemployment compensation among states. Its 14 week maximum is third lowest, only FL and NC having less at 12 weeks. KS has 16 weeks; MI, SC and MO have 20; and the remaining 41 states have 26 weeks. Combine Gerogia’s short duration with Georgia’s bottom quintile maximum of $330 per week, and the state maximum is third lowest (again following FL and NS) and only 42% of the US median maximum. I glad my employment is very likely to be steady.