Friday, July 30, 2021

The Georgia Secretary of State has a, ummmm, "creative" definition of "gone".

 From the Daily Beast

Georgia Secretary of State Declares Pandemic ‘Gone’ and Expanded Voting Access Over

Georgia’s top election official said he believes the COVID-19 pandemic is “gone,” making the efforts enacted last year to expand voting access no longer necessaryand it’s one reason he’s opposing a Justice Department lawsuit against his state’s new voting law.

“It was a once-in-a-century event. We are now back to a situation where more Georgians will want to return to vote in person,” Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told The Daily Beast on Friday.


Ummmm - From the Georgia Department of Public Health (an agency that Raffensperger is familiar with) - 





There are real world effects of Raffensperger's beliefs and statements.


From CNN -

Atlanta students in quarantine after 9 students and 5 staffers test positive for Covid-19

 

More than 100 students at Atlanta's Drew Charter School are in quarantine after nine students and five staff members tested positive for Covid-19, the head of school said Friday.

The school had informed parents in a letter Thursday that two staff members and a student had tested positive. The school said it was "working closely with local public health officials to ensure we follow the proper recommendations to quarantine."

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