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re: Is Georgia still around? I heard that they'd be a wasteland by now for opening up.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:23 am to Centinel
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:23 am to Centinel
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You shouldn't have needed hindsight to see how this was going to go. Politicians and the media focused on the worst possible outcomes, in the worst possible places, and beat the drum that this was how it was going to be in all corners of the US. This caused a panic. The panic caused the public to demand their politicians "do something". The politicians "did something", even when that something had absolutely no local reason for doing so because that justification was based on a city on the other side of the country with completely different demographics.
This a is a little revisionist history. People were taking precautions in many areas well before any significant local or state governmental action was taken. Widespread work from home was starting in Birmingham in early March, and we were behind several other areas in that regard.
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Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:26 am to The Spleen
There's a difference between individual companies making the decision on taking precautionary measures when they were capable of doing so, and the government closing businesses down by fiat.
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