Atlanta mayor: Governor's decision to reopen Georgia 'baffling'

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'[Georgia's] rates of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, asthma, are all above the national average,' says Atlanta Mayor Bottoms. 'That we are opening up businesses in this state and that we are putting the economy before the lives of people is baffling.'

 

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I say; turn them loose. You can’t stop ignorance. Honestly, they care NOTHING for ANYONE but THEMSELVES - this world will be a better place without them.

Amazing reading many of the comments in this thread. Too many people just don’t get it; humpty dumpty has fallen off the wall and can’t be put back together again; things will NOT go back to ‘normal’ (as we knew it); some kind of new normal will evolve…history is happening.

We're not staying in our homes forever for black people in Georgia.

Not baffling. GOP WANTS city dwellers, Democrats, POC, elderly to die off thinking it saves money and votes for them

You don’t have to go out then.

It's okay that Georgia is opening up. As long as all of those people who go back to work are willing to sign a piece of paper saying that they will not seek medical health when they get the virus.

The answer is simple. High risk people need to continue to quarantine. Employers need to understand this.

Just have the funeral homes get ready money always means more to Republicans then life!

Its not baffling it's called the politics of death, survival of the fittest

Those conditions are meaningless if people are starving.

Gloom and doom Mayor!!!!😝

Maybe the focus of your state should be to get healthy. Eat less, exercise more, stop food shopping and go for a fast walk.

You are not putting the economy before the lives of people. You are putting the lives of the majority before the lives of the minority. For the same reason the speed limit is 65 instead of 30 which costs lives, we MUST open the economy as safely as is reasonable.

Kemp is conspiring to kill as many blk qns brown people in his state

It's not baffling at all; it's political. He's making choices that favor one part of the GA population at the expense of another ... maybe even favoring elements that are not Georgians.

Weak

EndTheShutdownNow EndTheShutdownNow EndTheShutdownNow EndTheShutdownNow EndTheShutdownNow

cry us a river

so we're supposed to destroy the healthy to prolong the survivability of people with poor health practices.

idiot, let people back to normal life, people can have regular checkups, crooked Democrats lock people home for other interest? racists r not happy when they see other people r happy?

Because a “livelihood” doesn’t mean anything during this time to people who have guaranteed incomes. How about all politicians stop getting paid until the country is reopened. We’ll see how quickly they change their tune.

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