Thank you ⁦ @HughAcheson⁩ for this. I worked in the service industry in college, waiting tables, and live in one of the hot spots. Now is not the time to open. Had to get out today, so many people running around. Not good! #stayhome 1/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/24/georgia-kemp-reopon-coronavirus/

This quote! “I do not trust that this administration has the data to placate my concerns. This unleashing of irresponsibility will do nothing but harm.” I would say Kemp listen, but afraid that would be screaming into the void! 2/

Seriously, administration can scream up and down this ain’t about damn politics, but don’t be fooled. It’s politics and economics. Read this thread from @DrIbram on GA, covid, and race, then read the following tweets from LIllian Smith in 1943 3/

https://twitter.com/dribram/status/1253337313586720770?s=21 https://twitter.com/dribram/status/1253337313586720770

"For a long time, Gene Talmadge has been the loud speaker for vested interests (farm, facorty, finance) who find it to their direct advantage to keep the Georgia white working people, town and country, in a fighting mood about the Negro. 4/

These groups are the planters, processors, textile men, bankers--all of whom have reason, with their present short-sighted policies, to want to keep wages low, to weaken labor unions, and to maintain prestige value in cheap jobs with whites only." 5/

We need to reopen. We want to reopen. But, I would rather put lives above profit. Now is not the time to play politics. To curry favor. Now is the time to be responsible. We’ll get back to normal, and we must work towards that, but not like this! #StayHome 6/