That is a function of the failure to communicate properly.
The Governor is between a rock and a hard place.
If he tells the people of Georgia the truth, the whole, and nothing but the truth (like we tell each other here :-) ), they _will_ panic.
If he does not do it, then they think he is over-reacting.
One little personal story for today.
I am trying to think ahead of what I will need down the road, and then I realized that my lawn mower needed its seasonal maintenance.
Normally I wouldn’t have it done until the first week of May—the grass here in northern CT does not start growing much before then.
But—I saw all those pictures of the empty Seattle ports and realized that there could be shortages of minor parts, so I decided to visit my lawn mower repair guy today.
He gave me a funny look (like why you be here in March) and then thought for a minute and said: “OK, but it be a couple of weeks.”
The thing is, this guy normally does next day service—and I didn’t see any other lawnmowers in his shop waiting for repair—so I think that meant he wasn’t all that confident about getting the parts...
We will see—would _really_ like to avoid living in a jungle this summer. ;-)