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As previously stated, I'm currently in Georgia with my mother and sister. That's 574 miles (924 kilometers) south of my home town of Washington, DC.
I don't particularly care for Mayor Bowser for my own reasons, but, since she's the closest thing we have to a governor (see all my posts about DC politics and DC statehood for why this is so), I need to put on my short skirt, pull out my pom-poms, and lead a cheer for her. Why? She took the virus seriously from the beginning, imposed minor stay-at-home orders early and major ones not long after.
While I'm high-kicking, Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah was slower off the mark, but he had far fewer cases more widely spread in his community. He still ordered closures of non-essential services -- with good definitions of non-essential and with fines imposed -- early in the local outbreak.
This post is marked Grrr! for the Governor of Georgia (and to a lesser extent the governors of Maryland and Virginia). Maryland and Virginia were way too slow in closing down and issuing shelter-in-place orders. But at least they did not, unlike the governor of Georgia, state that he just found out COVID-19 could spread when people were asymptomatic.
I know we're not allowed to apply litmus tests to public servants and elected officials. Having been an elected official, I'm happy about that generally. But could they at least be required to pass a basic reasoning test with a little bit of science and reading comprehension on it?
For those of you who don't know the Centers for Disease Control are based in Atlanta, Georgia. He should know better.
I don't particularly care for Mayor Bowser for my own reasons, but, since she's the closest thing we have to a governor (see all my posts about DC politics and DC statehood for why this is so), I need to put on my short skirt, pull out my pom-poms, and lead a cheer for her. Why? She took the virus seriously from the beginning, imposed minor stay-at-home orders early and major ones not long after.
While I'm high-kicking, Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah was slower off the mark, but he had far fewer cases more widely spread in his community. He still ordered closures of non-essential services -- with good definitions of non-essential and with fines imposed -- early in the local outbreak.
This post is marked Grrr! for the Governor of Georgia (and to a lesser extent the governors of Maryland and Virginia). Maryland and Virginia were way too slow in closing down and issuing shelter-in-place orders. But at least they did not, unlike the governor of Georgia, state that he just found out COVID-19 could spread when people were asymptomatic.
I know we're not allowed to apply litmus tests to public servants and elected officials. Having been an elected official, I'm happy about that generally. But could they at least be required to pass a basic reasoning test with a little bit of science and reading comprehension on it?
For those of you who don't know the Centers for Disease Control are based in Atlanta, Georgia. He should know better.
