Good morning! It’s the last day of August, which means that fake fall is only a few weeks away!
- How long will the power be out in New Orleans? At least a few weeks.
- FTLOG, stop taking the horse paste, dummies! Calls to the Georgia Poison Center are on the rise. If you took too much cattle worm goo, call this number: 1-800-222-1222. And then go find yourself something that will keep you from getting super sick from COVID (and isn’t recommended by any of the COVID grifters since it’s free and widely-available): a vaccine.
- Behavioral healthcare providers in Georgia are doing their level best to provide critical services during the pandemic, but are struggling amidst funding shortfalls and staffing limitations.
- Parents at one metro Atlanta private school are upset that the high rate of COVID outbreaks that began happening after the school dropped last year’s strict mask and quarantine protocol.
- As of this morning, ten public schools in Henry County are closed because of high rates of COVID infections.
- Meanwhile, DPH head Dr. Kathleen Toomey announced yesterday that more than half of the COVID outbreaks in Georgia are happening in K-12 schools.
- A high school that may or may not actually exist somehow ended up in ESPN’s showcase game this weekend.
- …while two real Georgia high schools, Rabin County High School and Pace Academy, played on ESPN as well (RCHS knocked Pace’s hat in the dirt).
- An incredible restoration of a Vermeer work you’ve likely seen before reveals the artist’s true work(s).