Kemp: Restaurants, other businesses to reopen in Georgia amid COVID-19 fight

[PLizzy]

I feel genuinely sorry for Georgians. If Kemp hadn't cheated in 2018 Stacey Abrams would be in office and the state would have a competent governor.

The people of Georgia didn't want Kemp and they don't deserve what's coming.

Kemp: Restaurants, other businesses to reopen in Georgia amid COVID-19 fight | FOX 5 Atlanta

Can we re-open restaurants and other non-essential business? Yes, it can be done with the right caution and measures, and the right government.

The problem is that the latter is not present in any of the red states. They are setting themselves up for local outbreaks, which could create domino effects that send their states right back to ground zero all over again.

I truly hope I look like a fool, and they manage to succeed.

 

[Drawdown]

Are we all gonna die?

Will I get my stimulus check before that happens?

1) Yes. Sooner rather than later if you got to a Waffle House in Georgia.

2) Probably not. I am 7 weeks from filing my tax returns and still no check from the IRS.

 

[HumblePi]

If you had enough room to space tables 6 foot apart.

If your staff disinfected all the stuff on the table like the napkin holder, the salt and pepper shaker, etc. Disinfect the chairs, the table top.

Then maybe.

Even the pen and tray they bring to you to pay with your credit card, it needs to be disinfected too.

Don't forget about the rest rooms. This has to be done like 50 times a day.

Plus people and their waiter must wear a mask, but diners will be allowed to cut a slit at the mouth to shove the food into it.

 

[Cardinal]

Can we re-open restaurants and other non-essential business? Yes, it can be done with the right caution and measures, and the right government.

The problem is that the latter is not present in any of the red states. They are setting themselves up for local outbreaks, which could create domino effects that send their states right back to ground zero all over again.

I truly hope I look like a fool, and they manage to succeed.

They're not going to succeed. And trump supporters will learn nothing from it.

 

[PLizzy]

I don't see how restaurants, except for carry out, can reopen. Someone's splain this to me please.

1. Testing peoples temperatures before they can enter, and refusing those with a fever.
2. Requiring all patrons wear masks.
3. All employees must wear masks and gloves at all times.
4. Reduce capacity by 50%.
5. Open every other booth/table to provide social distancing.

It can be done, but only if the rules are enforced and we understand outbreaks will happen and local towns have to be ready for the sick.

The problem? No enforcement is ready.

 

[goodbyte]

Can we re-open restaurants and other non-essential business? Yes, it can be done with the right caution and measures, and the right government.

The problem is that the latter is not present in any of the red states. They are setting themselves up for local outbreaks, which could create domino effects that send their states right back to ground zero all over again.

I truly hope I look like a fool, and they manage to succeed.

I also wonder what types of liability issues the restaurant are willing to open themselves up to. The bar for negligence is quite low and people have been able to successfully sue for things like wet floors. Whether justified or not I don't know, but it's a risk nevertheless.

 

[Cardinal]

Messenger severely wounded. The message is still intact.

The claims of voter suppression rest primarily on the fact that as Georgia secretary of state, Kemp enforced a statute passed by a Democratic-majority legislature and signed by a Democratic governor in 1997. It required the voting rolls to be periodically purged to remove names of voters who were dead, or who had moved away or were incarcerated. Under this law, 600,000 names of people who hadn’t voted in the last three elections were removed from the rolls in 2017 by Kemp’s office.

Those who were removed got prior notification in the mail about the impending purge, and they were given a menu of options to retain their registration. Moreover, it took four years to complete the process by which a name was removed. The reason so many names were taken off in 2017 was that a lawsuit by the Georgia NAACP had delayed the routine enforcement of the law for years before the organization eventually lost in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Did you just quote from National Review? If your source was a joke before, what made you think it would stop being a joke just because you cut and pasted a portion from it here?

 

[HumblePi]

Given the favorable data, Kemp said that gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, beauty shops and salons, barbershops, body art studios, and more would be able to open Friday, April 24.

Gotta have bowling and tattoos.

I can barely walk though the supermarket with a mask, it feels stifling. I can't imagine running on a treadmill or peddling an exercise bike wearing one.

 

[Cardinal]

1. Testing peoples temperatures before they can enter, and refusing those with a fever.
2. Requiring all patrons wear masks.
3. All employees must wear masks and gloves at all times.
4. Reduce capacity by 50%.
5. Open every other booth/table to provide social distancing.

It can be done, but only if the rules are enforced and we understand outbreaks will happen and local towns have to be ready for the sick.

The problem? No enforcement is ready.

Haha, nothing like that is going to happen.

 

[PLizzy]

They're not going to succeed. And trump supporters will learn nothing from it.

I think states like California and Ohio will do rather well, and maybe even Texas (the mayors have made up for the jackass we have as a governor), but places like Georgia and Florida are a real concern, where we know the people are not taking social distancing "seriously in shelter in place" as it is.

 

[jmotivator]

I feel genuinely sorry for Georgians. If Kemp hadn't cheated in 2018 Stacey Abrams would be in office and the state would have a competent governor.

The people of Georgia didn't want Kemp and they don't deserve what's coming.

Kemp: Restaurants, other businesses to reopen in Georgia amid COVID-19 fight | FOX 5 Atlanta

Because clearly now the Georgia National guard will be driving people from their homes, confiscating their hand sanitizer and masks and forcing them into trucks to be driven to local, non-essential businesses where they will be forced, at gun point, to buy tomato seeds.

The horror. The horror.

I bet they will be expected to provide their own living and feed themselves next. Where does this madness end?

 

[Cardinal]

I think states like California and Ohio will do rather well, and maybe even Texas (the mayors have made up for the jackass we have as a governor), but places like Georgia and Florida are a real concern, where we know the people are not taking social distancing "seriously in shelter in place" as it is.

Republicans run on the platform that they're incompetent, and few people encompass that quality more than Kemp and DeSantis. That's how I know they're going to fail at everything they try (unless what they're trying to do is cheat in elections, in which case I give them better than even odds).

 

[PLizzy]

Haha, nothing like that is going to happen.

As I stated, this seems to be the path Newsom and Inslue are going to go down.

All we can do is hope for others follow them.

 

[Cardinal]

As I stated, this seems to be the path Newsom and Inslue are going to go down.

All we can do is hope for others follow them.

Newsom gets bizarrely little credit for the way he's handled the outbreak. But Democrats vote for politicians on the premise that they'll...you know...govern.

 

[Superfly]

I feel genuinely sorry for Georgians. If Kemp hadn't cheated in 2018 Stacey Abrams would be in office and the state would have a competent governor.

The people of Georgia didn't want Kemp and they don't deserve what's coming.

Kemp: Restaurants, other businesses to reopen in Georgia amid COVID-19 fight | FOX 5 Atlanta

Guaranteed Stacey Abrams wouldn’t be doing this. She wouldn’t have opened the beaches two weeks ago, either.

 

[jmotivator]

I think states like California and Ohio will do rather well, and maybe even Texas (the mayors have made up for the jackass we have as a governor), but places like Georgia and Florida are a real concern, where we know the people are not taking social distancing "seriously in shelter in place" as it is.

If they aren't taking it seriously, then you'll have to square that with why they aren't doing as poorly as some of the states that are talking it seriously.....

Florida and Georgia are 19th and 14th respectively in cases per-capita.

 

[CaughtInThe]

i wondered which states were gonna be the Guinea Pigs.

 

[Cardinal]

Guaranteed Stacey Abrams wouldn’t be doing this. She wouldn’t have opened the beaches two weeks ago, either.

Dollars to donuts Abrams would have been the first governor to get the idea of buying medical equipment under the nose of the White House.

 

[Superfly]

tl;dr

*snorted laughing*

 

[Fledermaus]

Did you just quote from National Review? If your source was a joke before, what made you think it would stop being a joke just because you cut and pasted a portion from it here?

Messenger wounded once more.

The message survives.

Have you anything to say about the content?

 

[Superfly]

Dollars to donuts Abrams would have been the first governor to get the idea of buying medical equipment under the nose of the White House.

She would. She don’t play.

 

[PLizzy]

If they aren't taking it seriously, then you'll have to square that with why they aren't doing as poorly as some of the states that are talking it seriously.....

Gee, maybe when you don't don't have densely populated cities where everyone travels in subways, you won't have it as bad.

NY and NJ got it bad because the same factors present in Italy are present there.

 

[Cardinal]

The message survives.

Stupid messages usually do.

 

[PLizzy]

Newsom gets bizarrely little credit for the way he's handled the outbreak. But Democrats vote for politicians on the premise that they'll...you know...govern.

If Newsom had waited another few weeks LA and SF would be in the universe that NY and NJ are.

 

[jmotivator]

Gee, maybe when you don't don't have densely populated cities where everyone travels in subways, you won't have it as bad.

NY and NJ got it bad because the same factors present in Italy are present there.

So you are more worried because they are less susceptible? Great argument. :lol: