Here is an excerpt from a column by Eric (R-I can be stupid as Rich Unsurpassed Stupid Lowry) Erickson requesting an apology for Brian Kemp.

"It is now about a month since Kemp said the state could reopen and more than fourteen days past the shelter-in-place order expired. The IHME model is the most widely cited and relied upon model for COVID-19. The White House and every state rely on it. On May 12, the IHME model predicted Georgia would have hundreds of daily new cases into August and would have 1,783 daily new cases on June 12, 2020. After Kemp reopened the state, the IHME model jumped from predicting cumulatively around 2,000 deaths by August to over 5,000.

Reporters flooded Kemp’s office demanding comment. Pundits predicted overflowing hospitals and morgues. On Wednesday, the IHME revised its model. It now predicts Georgia will have just 367 cases on June 12 and only 19 on August 1, with deaths back around 2,000. The media has gone quiet. The Governor’s office tells me few reporters have asked for comment.

Progressives who said Kemp would have blood on his hands now say just wait. They want more time to be proven right. But the IHME modeling and the real data have washed the metaphorical blood off Kemp’s hands. Where does he go for an apology?"


And here is a leaked report from the Atlantic Journal Constitution months later:

President Trump’s coronavirus task force warns that Georgia continues to see “widespread and expanding community viral spread” and that the state’s current policies aren’t enough to curtail COVID-19.

The task force “strongly recommends” Georgia adopt a statewide mandate that citizens wear masks, joining a chorus of public health officials, Democrats and others who have warned that Gov. Brian Kemp’s refusal to order face coverings has plunged the state into deeper crisis and will prolong recovery.

“Current mitigation efforts are not having a sufficient impact,” the report said.

Businesses, such as nightclubs, bars and gyms, currently open with some restrictions in Georgia, should be closed in the highest risk counties, the report said.

The task force recommends restricting indoor edining at restaurants, now limited only by the number of diners who can be safely distanced six feet apart, to less than one-quarter of dining room capacity. Social gatherings, now capped at 50 people in Georgia, should be limited to 10 or fewer people.

Georgia also needs to ramp up testing and contact tracing statewide, the report said, and testing and infection control measures need to be expanded in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution obtained the White House Coronavirus Task Force recommendations for Georgia, dated Aug. 9, from a source.

Dr. Melanie Thompson, principal investigator of the AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta, said it is frustrating that the report is only seeing the light of day because of a leak.

“These are public health data and they should be publicly available,” she said.

How many people die because of fucking brainless, heartless idiots like Rich Lowry and Eric Erickson? Do they ever apologize in their quest to kill far, far more people than the most than any terror group in the United States ever has?