Quote Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg View Post
Decent article summarizing what is going on in Georgia and why there may not be a spike due to re-opening (don't discount it just because its Vox) https://www.vox.com/2020/6/4/2126776...es-deaths-data

I would add one more thing from my observations - while Kemp didn't shut things down until April, a significant number of Georgia's urban centers and small cities shut down a week to 10 days earlier, with Atlanta being the primary one. Add to it, that I know many people who were on "work from home" status by March 20th-ish. So, while the state may not have done the best job, pro-active cities and counties probably made a difference.
That sounds like a good job to me. Viruses don't spread on a statewide basis and it doesn't make a lot of sense for the state to dictate to counties and cities how to operate on something like this. Make information available and offer guidance, but unless state law is set up where local governments don't have the power they need, there doesn't seem to be any reason to shut down on statewide basis. Where I live shut down before the rest of the state (as we probably should have at the time based on the information available, even if it was unnecessary in hindsight). Our local leaders were bitching, but they were just bitching about having to make a tough decision, since the governor obviously didn't actually need to do anything.