July 14, 2020 10:44 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, July 14
Good morning! Here’s a link to the handy COVID-19 Event Risk Predictor built by some of the smarties over at the North Avenue Trade School. Let’s say you want to attend an event with 25 other people in Chatham County. There’s a 76% chance someone there will have the COVID. Party on, Wayne; party on, Garth, and may the odds be ever in your favor!
- The Cobb County Board of Elections voted yesterday to add a dozen additional absentee ballot drop boxes to be deployed throughout the county.
- The United States borrowed more money the past month than we typically do in a year.
- Fax machines bear liability for some of the COVID response bottleneck.
- The Washington football team will change their name. What does this mean for Braves fans?
- The federal defense bill could mean name changes for Forts Gordon and Benning.
- The state school super updated its COVID-19 guidance for schools.
- The Georgia House of Representatives Judiciary Non-Civil Committee held its first hearing to review the state’s citizen’s arrest law yesterday.
- If you can’t find your favorite soft drink flavor, it’s probably because there’s a COVID-related aluminum can shortage.
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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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My job/office (essential workers) is an event with 25 other people in Chatham County. Thanks for cheering me up Terri… sigh.
if i get a chance to play with the predictor thing later i may..i assume those numbers are for a random gathering and does not take into account screening, testing, and well, non random gatherings…
“Vindman told the truth, and for that he was punished.
Stone lied, and for that he was rewarded.”
https://thebulwark.com/the-tale-of-vindman-and-stone/?utm_source=The+Bulwark+Newsletter&utm_campaign=bd64294747-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_07_13_08_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f4bd64ac2e-bd64294747-70185589
From today’s Atlanta Journal Constitution:”HHS officials on Monday finalized a new data reporting protocol for hospitals, which will eliminate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a data recipient, leaving health-care institutions to report information about covid-19 to a federal contractor or to their state, which would coordinate the federal reporting. Covid-19 is the disease caused by the virus.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-the-cdc-eliminated-first-recipient-local-coronavirus-data/vWQKW3pDTYVnfhiaisHMJN/
Also, the White House wants the governors to use their National Guard to collect the data from the hospitals.
Trump is going to sideline the whole medical establishment.
Whatever Putin wants, Putin gets.
Has Brian Kemp actually been a governor yet?
I know folks who work on this site voted for him and wrote columns about him being their choice for governor. But can you tell me what he has actually done to work on the virus situation? All I have heard is wishy-washy talk about those cities who try to protect themselves.
He is not going to lead Georgia, is he?
I know the Georgia Board of Nursing was angry at him once he became SOS. He had no idea of what he was doing, basically.
We have a milquetoast governor afraid of his own shadow.
Does this mean Augusta writes fewer tickets and thus needs more revenue from their general budget to pay for their police department? https://advisorsmith.com/data/cities-that-spend-the-most-and-least-on-police/