57 COVID deaths in GA today: Post-opening spike starting?

We're at 23 consecutive days of falling cases (Jul11-Aug03) outside the 14-day confidence window. Short term trend shows continued decreasing daily cases. If current forecast holds up, it would put us at more than 5 weeks of decreasing cases as of today.

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Fat hurts wrote:

2) My church is a lot more liberal than most evangelical churches.

lol Imagine that. OK only 60% support Trump/Kemp.

How close am I to your post-church activities:

After church you and your church buddies go to the local Denny's and order a big Rutti-Tutti Fresh and Frutti and "sweet tea." You guys discuss whether or not you think your waiter is one of those "Atlanta gays." Then you gossip a little bit about how your neighbor's daughter is dating a (gasp!) black guy and how you'd never let that happen. After sitting there for a couple of hours, you get up and you guys leave a couple dollar tip for the table.

Sound familiar?

brazen2 wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

2) My church is a lot more liberal than most evangelical churches.

lol Imagine that. OK only 60% support Trump/Kemp.

How close am I to your post-church activities:

After church you and your church buddies go to the local Denny's and order a big Rutti-Tutti Fresh and Frutti and "sweet tea." You guys discuss whether or not you think your waiter is one of those "Atlanta gays." Then you gossip a little bit about how your neighbor's daughter is dating a (gasp!) black guy and how you'd never let that happen. After sitting there for a couple of hours, you get up and you guys leave a couple dollar tip for the table.

Sound familiar?

Some of us drink sweet tea. That's the only thing familiar about it to me.

Does the above scenario come form a church you used to attend?

brazen2 wrote:

Fat hurts wrote:

2) My church is a lot more liberal than most evangelical churches.

lol Imagine that. OK only 60% support Trump/Kemp.

How close am I to your post-church activities:

After church you and your church buddies go to the local Denny's and order a big Rutti-Tutti Fresh and Frutti and "sweet tea." You guys discuss whether or not you think your waiter is one of those "Atlanta gays." Then you gossip a little bit about how your neighbor's daughter is dating a (gasp!) black guy and how you'd never let that happen. After sitting there for a couple of hours, you get up and you guys leave a couple dollar tip for the table.

Sound familiar?

Don’t know about the other stuff. But as a former waiter I can confirm that the after church crowds are the worst tippers. They sit there forever taking up your tables and then stiff you on the tips. The worst. We used to fight over not getting that shift because you knew you wouldn’t make any money.

That's sad and all I can say is that there are all kinds of different churches. I do remember a sermon where the pastor told the congregation to make sure and tip waiters well to demonstrate the love and generosity that we should have as Christians. Unfortunately in your experience, most were not living up to that standard.

Florida date is in almost on time. 3,838 new cases, 219 new deaths. Looks like the decreasing case counts part is for real, though the positive % remains high (though not high by Florida's past lofty standards). The worst is likely past Florida barring a surge after schools open or people act stupidly, but people who say it's over there are being naive.

We're at 8 consecutive days of the 7-day average for positivity below 10%. First time since Jun24.

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Cases in Muscogee County and Troup County peaked 1-2 weeks earlier than metro Atlanta and the rest of Georgia. 7-day average for cases (by Aug04 - 14-day window) have dropped 70% and 76%, respectively, since the peak.

Fulton County cases have dropped 63% , Gwinnett - 48%, Cobb - 50%, and DeKalb - 56%.

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Such irresponsibility.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article244755952.html

https://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article245018735.html

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brazen2 wrote:

Such irresponsibility.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article244755952.htmlhttps://www.bradenton.com/news/coronavirus/article245018735.html

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Agreed.

It's also irresponsible for Kemp to allow bars, nightclubs, and indoor restaurants to be open.

In other news, Dr. Birx says we should have had a stricter lockdown like in Italy.

Interesting article about the outbreak at the Lovett School in Atlanta and how early efforts at contract tracing failed because wealthy students and parents would not cooperate. My sister went to Westminster. My mom tried to get me to go to Lovett for middle school, but they wouldn't give her a break on tuition (single mom). I ended up at the Galloway School (as in Jeff's dad, Elliot Galloway). Jeff's brother Jim was our PE coach and got me started running. So, I know that whole private school community on the north side of Atlanta and am not surprised at how it went down at Lovett. It does piss me off that so many staff got infected at Ansley GC.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-race-to-investigate-a-coronavirus-outbreak-at-a-georgia-prep-school

Precious Roy wrote:

Interesting article about the outbreak at the Lovett School in Atlanta and how early efforts at contract tracing failed because wealthy students and parents would not cooperate. My sister went to Westminster. My mom tried to get me to go to Lovett for middle school, but they wouldn't give her a break on tuition (single mom). I ended up at the Galloway School (as in Jeff's dad, Elliot Galloway). Jeff's brother Jim was our PE coach and got me started running. So, I know that whole private school community on the north side of Atlanta and am not surprised at how it went down at Lovett. It does piss me off that so many staff got infected at Ansley GC.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-race-to-investigate-a-coronavirus-outbreak-at-a-georgia-prep-school

Thanks for sharing the article. Just another instance of Christians NGAF.

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As I stated previously, Georgia was going to start posting county-level testing information. It has been added to the website today.

Notables:

Fulton: 7-day positivity rate - 6.4%

Gwinnett: 9.1%

Cobb: 6.0%

DeKalb: 6.3%

Richmond: 15.9%

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brazen2 wrote:

Precious Roy wrote:

Interesting article about the outbreak at the Lovett School in Atlanta and how early efforts at contract tracing failed because wealthy students and parents would not cooperate. My sister went to Westminster. My mom tried to get me to go to Lovett for middle school, but they wouldn't give her a break on tuition (single mom). I ended up at the Galloway School (as in Jeff's dad, Elliot Galloway). Jeff's brother Jim was our PE coach and got me started running. So, I know that whole private school community on the north side of Atlanta and am not surprised at how it went down at Lovett. It does piss me off that so many staff got infected at Ansley GC.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-race-to-investigate-a-coronavirus-outbreak-at-a-georgia-prep-school

Thanks for sharing the article. Just another instance of Christians NGAF.

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Lovett is not a Christian school. Get a clue.

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brazen2 wrote:

Thanks for sharing the article. Just another instance of Christians NGAF.

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Lovett is not a Christian school. Get a clue.

The Lovett School values and encourages a sense of responsibility to God, respect for diversity, service to others, and moral awareness, and expects its graduates to be men and women of honor and faith.

While respecting all religious traditions, chapel at Lovett is an inclusively Christian service. All students and faculty meet once a rotation for the chapel service by division.The chaplains of all three divisions are ministers from various Christian traditions. Though different in age appropriate ways, all three chapel services follow the same basic structure: Every service includes a processional of a cross and torches carried by acolytes, a call to worship, readings from the Old and New Testaments, prayers for the community including the Lord’s Prayer, music, a message, and a benediction.

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I drove home a few weeks ago through Georgia, stopping for take out at a sub restaurant in Richmond Hill, near Savannah. Almost no one in the restaurant, other than employees, was wearing a mask and one woman complained when my wife politely asked her to keep her distance (six foot distance marks were on the floor and signs were posted--this was a corporate chain). Total contrast to the Northeast, where they have now kept the virus down for three months.

Within the next few weeks, as schools and colleges re-open this month, there will be a big wave of new cases.

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Within the next few weeks, as schools and colleges re-open this month, there will be a big wave of new cases.

What makes you think that? ;)

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zxczxcv wrote:

I drove home a few weeks ago through Georgia, stopping for take out at a sub restaurant in Richmond Hill, near Savannah. Almost no one in the restaurant, other than employees, was wearing a mask and one woman complained when my wife politely asked her to keep her distance (six foot distance marks were on the floor and signs were posted--this was a corporate chain). Total contrast to the Northeast, where they have now kept the virus down for three months.

Did you eat there?

Did you contact the corporate office?

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