Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 4
Good morning! It’s 2022.
If you aren’t vaccinated, please consider the vaccine. If you’re vaccinated but have held off on getting boosted, don’t delay. And good news: everyone age 12 and up is now eligible for a booster 6 months after their second dose! See, COVID is no joke, and this omicron variant is ragingly contagious. If you want out schools to stay open — which they won’t if there aren’t enough healthy teachers and custodians and bus drivers and lunch workers — you’ll get vaccinated, just like the Governor is vaccinated and the attorney general and the current president and the previous president. They are all vaccinated, and you should be, too.
- We don’t know precisely how many new COVID cases there are in Georgia since Friday, since the amount of data trying to be uploaded apparently overwhelmed the DPH system. I’ll tell you what we do know, though, and what we do know is that whatever that number is (and we should know by 3 PM today), it’s a fraction of how many cases there actually are, since the official DPH tally does not include positive home tests.
- An Atlanta area resident who claims that storming the Capitol last January 6 was his “best birthday ever” is apparently not that bright in addition to being seditious, since everyone knows that if you are lucky enough to be born on January 6, you celebrate your Epiphany birthday with king cake, the way God intended, and not, you know, trying to overthrow our democracy.
- Speaking of not having enough bus drivers to get all the kids to school, that’s happening in Chatham County.
- In the waning hours of 2021, Governor Kemp (who is fully vaccinated, just gonna say that again, and you should also get vaccinated) signed the new Congressional and General Assembly maps. Here’s more information on the lawsuits that were immediately filed.
- Atlanta has a new mayor!
- The 2022 legislative session kicks off on Sunday night with the annual Wild Hog Supper, which will once again be held in-person. Here’s a list of other notable session events.
- “I dId My oWn rEaSeaRcH” and why, if that’s your plan, maybe proceed with caution.
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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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“which they won’t if there aren’t enough healthy teachers and custodians and bus drivers and lunch workers”
We should make it mandatory for all the teachers, custodians, and bus drivers to get vaccinated. After all they have a fiduciary duty to keep our kids safe and by not getting vaccinated, they are endangering our kids that can’t get vaccinated. If they are not fired for not getting vaxed then at the least, they should lose their teachers license for not getting the jab.
Babysitting kids so parents are forced back to work is putting them in harm’s way, though.
There was a facebook discussion about an old crowd pleaser, why does Monroe Drive turn into Boulevard? It was a good excuse to post pictures from “The Georgia State University Library.”
Teri, “homage to treason” is the appropriate description for the Cobb County goper program Thursday for ‘J6 patriots’. I confess I’ll be stealing your perfect phrasing in the future. I hope you hang the whole mess around their necks.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/the-jolt-the-cobb-homage-to-treason-planned-for-jan-6/XT4JPF4SYZEUZNUKQ6M62REGLE/
Underpaid teachers and support staff should all strike nationwide, along with other front line essential workers called heroes until they dare to speak up about poor working conditions or not show up. As one example, schools were never retrofitted for safe learning. Plenty of time do make it happen and would’ve created good paying jobs in the process. But, nah, we’ve got corporate subsidies to support or bombs to pay for, I guess. Teachers and support staff are being forced to show up so schools stay open and parents are forced back to work and profits keep flowing. That’s it. Can’t actually shut down and stop the spread. That would hurt business. The horror! Keep getting boosters, while much of the world hasn’t even had access to one shot yet, and maybe after booster 14 we’ll be done with this.