The media has been demanding our political leaders listen to experts. The Governor of Georgia has been doing so. The experts have advised him that a statewide shelter-in-place order was unnecessary.

On Monday night, one of the leading outside experts demanding shelter-in-place announced that Georgia was turning the corner without sheltering in place. The Georgia media reported that accordingly.

The Governor of Georgia is listening to a world-renown epidemiologist, a disaster preparedness team, and others. None of them recommended sheltering in place.

On Tuesday evening, the data changed and CDC guidance changed. The Governor, as a result, changed his mind and is now ordering shelter-in-place.

The media is now attacking him for not doing it sooner. But this is the same media that demanded the politicians listen to the experts, which is what the Governor did.

The media response is that the Governor should have listened to their experts and paid attention to New York City, not Georgia. The media has created a no-win situation. Don't do what they want? Get attacked. Change your mind based on new data? Get attacked.

For years the media has told us the sign of real leadership is processing new data and changing your mind accordingly. Now, doing so gets you attacked.