Georgia’s Rosy Coronavirus Data Is a Lie

Here’s a conversation on Georgia governor Brian Kemp’s reopening the state in the midst of the pandemic, based on reports that Georgia officials bungled the data in a way that’s hard to believe wasn’t deliberate.

Glenn Doty: I knew that Kemp was evil – to the core of whatever he has that passes for a soul… But this is still shocking.  Leading up to the reopening, they reported their daily numbers out-of-sequence… They might have put the April 20th numbers before the April 4th numbers, or whatever… so as to make the graph define a downward slope and justify reopening.

Friend: Is it negligent homicide??

Glenn Doty: I’m not sure that it isn’t thousands of cases of 2nd degree murder.

Craig:  I don’t know anything about criminal law in Georgia, but in California, it wouldn’t be 2nd degree murder, because he didn’t intend to kill anyone. Here, given that there is proof that he knew about it, this would be thousands of cases of involuntary manslaughter, the act of killing someone illegally but unintentionally.  If prosecuted (which he wouldn’t be by virtue of his wealth and power), he’d get a well-deserved prison sentence in the many hundreds of years.