Posted on 04/25/2020 3:12:19 PM PDT by Kaslin
A very self-assured Stacy Abrams indulged the hosts of 'The View' with lies about [the real] Governor Brian Kemps plan to reopen much of Georgias economy
Stacy Abrams may have lost the Georgia governors race in 2018, but that hasnt stopped her from pretending she is one, imitating other governors like Whitmer and Brown in their fear-based responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and fundamentally distorted views of economic policy.
She took time out of her busy schedule running for vice presidential nominee yesterday to indulge the ladies of The View with all the satisfying lies rich and isolated people who can comfortably ride out an indefinite shutdown are accustomed to hearing. Yesterdays punching bag was Gov. Brian Kemp, who on Monday announced that many businesses including hair salons, bowling alleys, nail parlors and tattoo parlors could begin engaging in the minimum basic operations it takes to maintain the value of a business and make payroll.
We honestly dont understand Georgia is not flattening the curve. We have one of the highest rates of infection and one of the lowest rates of testing, she told host Whoopi Goldberg, who started out the conversation begging Abrams to explain why Kemp is a Very Bad Man with Very Dangerous Ideas.
We are seeing our rates rise over the last two weeks and not decline.
Abrams assertions here arent supported by the evidence. Its hard to tell how sharp the curve would have been if mitigation measures werent taken, so she cant know that. What we can know, with much more certainty, is whether the Peach state is climbing down from its peak something she vehemently denies. According to Georgias Department of Public Health, confirmed cases on Tuesday April 14 totaled 844, with cases spiraling downward to 360 on Monday, April 20. State curves seem to share the characteristic of spiking on Mondays, likely accounting for cases that werent reported or diagnosed over the weekend. If Mondays cases were 360, thats a 57 percent decrease from the peak to the most recent spike.
Georgias curve on deaths also seems to be on the decline as well, down from a peak of 42 on April 6 to 22 on April 20. Abrams is correct that the state has low levels of testing, but that cuts both ways, because the sickest people are far more likely to be tested than the mild or asymptomatic cases, making the situation appear more severe than it probably is. If Georgias new cases and daily deaths are forming a distinctive curve with such little data, that doesnt mean the curve isnt real.
As for Abrams claim that Georgia has one of the highest rates of infection (about 23 percent of tests come back positive), how can she possibly know the true infection rate when testing rates are low? New York City has tested over a quarter million people and its positive rates vary based on zip code from 25 percent to up to 71 percent. As someone quipped on Twitter the other day, at this point listening to fearful politicians is just an exercise in seeing who is paying attention.
Undeterred by reason or her states own official data, Abrams went on to say that, The people who are going to be sent to the front lines are the people who are going to be the least resilient they cant afford to say no if theyre told to go back to work. So they risk the possibility of sacrificing their health in order to keep a job thats going to pay them low wages and not protect them if they get sick.
This doesnt improve our economy, Abrams declared, it simply puts more Georgians at risk.
Maybe Abrams forgot that 861,000 workers in her state filed for unemployment in the four weeks prior to April 11, meaning at least 1 in 10 Georgians are out of work. To say putting people back to work and allowing more consumerism isnt going to improve the economy is like saying watering my rose bushes wont help them grow.
As for nail salon workers not being able to afford to say no, Abrams must have missed the memo that Georgians are allowed to make up to $300 a week without having their weekly benefits cut, including the hefty $600 a week (or $15 an hour) from the federal government. And if Georgians who work in close quarters, like hairstylists, dont want to come to work, federal guidelines state leaving a job based on risk of exposure allows you to claim the federal unemployment benefits. They dont have to risk their lives if they dont want to.
The wannabe VP then insisted, amazingly, that the Paycheck Protection Program and its one-size-fits-all approach that has largely failed to get small businesses what they need (particularly when pitted against the governments generous unemployment benefits), is the solution to the problems we face.
Abrams also protested Kemps move based on the fact that Georgia only shut down their economy two weeks ago. But the shutdowns were meant to slow the virus spread so hospital capacity isnt exceeded, not suppress the virus indefinitely. Georgia may have already hit capacity and is now trending downward, though the government is nearly finished building a temporary hospital that would add a minimum of 200 beds, potentially 400, post-peak. Now that the state can confidently handle another spike in infections, Kemps decision to save livelihoods is far from irrational.
Abrams should spend a little less time confirming the biases rich self-assured elites and a little more time examining her states own data and how state and federal policies are actually working out. On the other hand, should the smugly dishonest politician find her way into Washington D.C., shed fit right in.
Brilliant chess move by Trump who lets Governors who want to slit their own political throats do so. Now they will get the credit where due or the blame where deserved.
She's really the Governor, not Kemp. We should believer her and not our lying eyes.
And now she's going to be Vice President, despite whatever we or Joe might think.
She looks like she feeds on that frequently.
The same people who will be photographed again and again with Biden, have not-so-secretly chosen him precisely as a stone-cold loser to Trump, exactly the same way that Dole was chosen to capitulate to Clinton.
This isn't even hard math.
She has to lie somewhere, providing she finds a beach large enough.
Beast? A scary retromingent hippo of a beast.
Bloomberg paid her bs political group $5 million. I am guessing she’s now paid off her tax debts and credit card debts. I wish someone would ask her. She’s been bought off.
Black political leaders get bought off and their constituents get more ghettos.
But she ate it on the way there
There is no bigger fool than the "socially conscious" small business owner - the Leftists they admire are going to devour them first.
(burp)
WTF Georgia!?
Georgias shelter in place started in March. Its almost May
She looks like she has had more than just a few too many bowls of fresh baked Georgia Peach Cobbler,
Did she make pancakes for everyone?
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