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Inte för att vara sådan nu, men USA har redan passerat morgondagens prognos siffror i antalet döda och kommer troligen att passera torsdagens siffror ikväll.
Har vi hört något mer från Georgia eller är det fortfarande "vi ska öppna den 28.e!"
Tur att det fortfarande finns människor med sans och vett kvar. Tydligen kan borgmästaren i alla fall komma med råd som är sunda och hoppas på att befolkningen lyder rådet. Dock kan inte borgmästaren sätta sig över guvernören i delstaten och hans beslut.
- Elsewhere, Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia on Monday said he was joining Mr. McMaster and the governors of Tennessee and Ohio in reopening. Beginning Friday, businesses including gyms, nail and hair salons, bowling alleys and tattoo parlors are allowed to return to operating.
Georgia has recorded more than 19,000 confirmed cases, and more than 770 deaths, with the majority of the cases concentrated in the counties making up the metro Atlanta area, which have a combined total of more than 6,000 cases and 200 deaths.
The mayors of Georgia’s largest cities were among those pushing back. In Atlanta, which according to federal figures recorded a nearly 38 percent spike in cases over the last week, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottom urged residents to ignore Mr. Kemp’s order and continue to stay at home, relying on her bully pulpit as the city’s leader because she does not have the authority to supersede the governor’s decision inside city limits.
“I will continue to use my voice as mayor of Atlanta,” Ms. Bottom told ABC News shortly after Mr. Kemp’s announcement, “to ask people to continue to stay home, follow the science and exercise common sense.”
On CNN, Mayor Hardie Davis Jr. of Augusta said that he had been caught off guard by the governor’s decision and questioned the wisdom of it.
He pointed out that gyms, barbershops and salons were “places where we’re all in close proximity to one another,” adding, that “without a series of educational efforts to those industries, it’s going to be extremely difficult for us to continue to flatten the curve.”
In his announcement, Mr. Kemp, a Republican, also said that, dine-in restaurants, theaters and other entertainment venues could return to operating next Monday. He said that he believed that the crisis had leveled off enough to ease restrictions and help alleviate the economic anguish they have helped create.
He said that stores were not reopening for “business as usual,” noting that social distancing rules still must be enforced, and that businesses should check employees’ temperatures for fevers and ramp up sanitation efforts.
The development, he said, was “a small step forward and should be treated as such.”