April 13, 2020 2:38 PM
Mid-Afternoon Reads for Monday, April 13, 2020
Sorry for the late reads, y’all. Corona/Storms/and Andee turning 1 with a Zoom Party at noon got us all crazy over here in the Robertson house. You would think that a party where you can hide all the untidy parts of your house would be LESS stressful.
- At least 6 killed by severe weather in North Georgia overnight
- Everybody in Upson County is ok, but who’s house is this?
- Georgia film industry in limbo
- 13K coronavirus cases confirmed in Georgia as deaths near 500
- Georgia setting up 200-bed COVID site in convention center
- University System of Georgia will eliminate most mandatory fees for students this summer
- Kirby Smart talks 2020 CFB season, possibility of empty stadiums due to coronavirus
- Georgia gas prices and demand continue to drop
- A Georgia bar owner removed $3,714 worth of bills stapled to the walls to give to her unemployed staff
- Georgia Man allegedly tried to sell $750M in nonexistent masks to Veterans Affairs
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Theresa Garcia Robertson
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Here is your monday morning reader for this week. We look at the legend of the frog in tepid water. If you slowly increase the heat, the frog will boil to death. You don’t believe that, do you? What kind of scientist studies boiling frogs? Why is the water always tepid, and not room temperature?
Wrap your head around it. There are going to be significant restrictions, hopefully easing over time, until there’s a vaccine, or some other proven preventative or treatment. I think stadiums and arenas full of fans are over for the rest of the calendar year at minimum.
COVID-19 is twice as contagious as flu, asymptomatically transmittable, more than 10 times as likely to result in hospitalization, and about ten times as deadly.
Trump’s choosing a date to restart the economy is carnival barking. The rates of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in combination with comprehensive testing, contact tracing, response plans and healthcare capacity will determine how, when and where that happens.
The plans are up to the states when the apparent federal plan is Trump pointing to his head and saying “The metrics right here. That’s my metrics.”.