re: Is Georgia still around? I heard that they'd be a wasteland by now for opening up.

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even when that something had absolutely no local reason for doing so

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The biggest problem that the officials face is that once they have a local reason to do something, it is too late to do anything that is likely to be effective.

That's a large part of the reason the focus on the worst hit areas prompted near universal response.

Now that we have more information and that info is growing, officials should be able to make more strategic and geographically targeted decisions (though many probably won't).