Posted on 05/18/2020 5:12:39 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
The governors of Georgia and Colorado have at least one thing in common. They both took steps to reopen their states' economies in late April amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But for some reason, the media's coverage of Gov. Brian Kemp (R., Ga.) has been slightly different from the media's coverage of Gov. Jared Polis (D., Colo.).
Kemp, for example, has been accused of experimenting with "human sacrifice." So reads the headline of an April 29 article published in the Atlantic, which accuses Kemp of turning Georgia residents into "unwilling canaries in an invisible coal mine, sent to find out just how many individuals need to lose their job or their life for a state to work through a plague."
In a brief aside, the article acknowledges that some other states, including Colorado, "have already put similar plans in motion." Polis, for some reason, is not identified as an accomplice in Kemp's murder scheme.
When Kemp announced his plan to gradually reopen some Georgia businesses, former National Journal editor Ron Fournier echoed the sentiment of many media pundits when he wrote on Twitter: "Mark this day. Because two and three weeks from now, the Georgia death toll is blood on his hands. And as Georgians move around the country, they’ll spread more death and economic destruction." Fournier hasn't tweeted about Colorado in years.
The media have only managed to confuse themselves in attempting to portray the reopening of state economies as a partisan issue. "Republicans are reopening. Why is Democratic Gov. Polis doing the same in Colorado?" reads the headline from one NBC News article published in early May.
While Republican governors are reopening despite critics who "warn they're moving too fast," Polis is a political maverick displaying courageous leadership in trying times. "Jared is a unique individual, and to say that he is a cookie-cutter, standard public official or politician just isn't the case," one Democratic strategist told NBC. "He's always blazed his own trail. And he's confident as to where he's going."
Vox Dot Com has an explainer about one governor's "controversial reopening plan," but not the other's. CNN published articles on one governor's "hugely high-stakes coronavirus gamble," and another about how his state's "business owners are conflicted" about the plan to reopen. The other governor's name is mentioned at the very bottom of a separate CNN article on states "taking their first steps toward a new normal." You already know which governor is which.
The Getty Images photo catalogue reflects the media's heightened interest in Georgia's efforts to reopen the economy compared to Colorado's. It has more than 100 images depicting the gradual reopening of Georgia's economy, most of them part of a collection titled, "Coronavirus Pandemic Causes Climate Of Anxiety And Changing Routines In America."
A search for "Jared Polis" yields 40 results related to the coronavirus, the majority of which were taken during the governor's meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday.
Colorado (population 5.8 million) reported 318 new cases on May 13. Georgia (population 10.6 million) reported 579, an almost identical figure on a per capita basis. Georgia, meanwhile, is well ahead of Colorado in terms of coronavirus testing. Both states are projected to have almost no coronavirus infections by August, according to the most recent projections from the vaunted Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which were last updated on May 12, more than two weeks after both states began to reopen.
That all seems pretty similar. Wonder why the coverage has been so different?
Rather Gov. Kemp is a pioneer.
And only Kemp (a Republican) was criticized twice in front of the Fake News by our President.
Huh. Seems to me Cuomo “sacrificed” a few thousand more humans than Kemp did, in the nursing homes he forced, FORCED, to accept infected patients. Kemp didn’t FORCE anyone to do anything, and his numbers are down. We all need to push this point with people we know. We HAVE TO use small, simple, clear points like this to CHANGE MINDS of people in our lives, ONE AT A TIME. Make them think. Make them doubt what they are being fed. This is OUR JOB, not someone else’s. Our job.
bkmk
Their battle cry, go back to work, they want you dead
Yesterday my husband and I went for a ride up to the mountains of north GA. We drove through the town of Helen, a popular tourist spot. The place was packed. Most of the shops were opened. Only saw two people with face masks, no social distancing. Everyone was having a great time.
Kemp sent the National Guard to help clean nursing homes early on. Visionary leadership!
Kemp deploys National Guard to help nursing homes battle virus
March 31, 2020
The state will deploy more than 100 Georgia National Guardsmen to assisted-living facilities and nursing homes with coronavirus cases to help limit exposure to the disease among the most vulnerable residents.
Gov. Brian Kemp announced the deployment Tuesday as the state’s long-term care system is starting to feel strains from the pandemic. More than 30 nursing homes and assisted-living facilities have residents who tested positive, according to an estimate Tuesday by the Georgia Health Care Association, the state’s largest long-term care trade association.
The article fails to recognize Florida. We are in phase II. Here in the north part of the state restaraunts are now 50% capacity inside dining, barbershops, salons and all beaches open 100% and hallelujah it’s a miracle....were all still alive...Imagine that. Now if they’d just get rid of the one way isles in grocery stores and walmart etc....what a dumb idea.
It's amazing how many pinhead "journalists" and opinionated blowhards have suddenly become epidemiologists and infectious disease experts. But in their defense, the so-called pros in this area are beginning look a lot like chicken little.
Over the weekend Dr. Cyril Wecht, a crusty old-school Democrat politician and former county commissioner, made this shocking admission to a local TV newscast:
“If this were not an election year Pennsylvania would be open right now.”
People are being judged by the way they choose to spell their LAST NAMES.
In time past some last names ended spelled “Jr.” or in some families as “II” or “III”.
Today judgement is made as whether the last name is ended by an (R) or (D).
Martin Luther King judged a person by the “Content of his Character”, which required getting to know the actual person.
It is easier today, just learn the last name’s spelling.
Ron Fournier is about as accurate in his prognostications as Dr. Fauci it seems.
If Fauci had his way, we'd be in lockdown forever. I'm beginning to strongly suspect he is doing the bidding of the likes of SanFran Nan, and Big Pharma.
Georgia, meanwhile, is well ahead of Colorado in terms of coronavirus testing. Both states are projected to have almost no coronavirus infections by August, according to the most recent projections from the vaunted Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which were last updated on May 12, more than two weeks after both states began to reopen.
That all seems pretty similar. Wonder why the coverage has been so different?
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It’s a mystery.
That was to let his stupid constituents that he was willing to work with BAD ORANGE MAN,
I went to Clearwater Beach this weekend. Restaurants had 30 minutes wait lines (one was a hundred feet lone at least), you had to search for parking, streets were packed with people walking (no one wore masks), the bridge between Tampa and Clearwater was lined with tightly packed cars for miles.
How come I am not dead and no second wave?
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