Georgia's GOP Governor a perfect example of why Republicans are "intellectually Lazy".

[npk]

Georgia's Republican Governor Brian Kemp will finally issue a state wide shelter in place order. It seems that a recent revelation may have persuaded the Governor of Georgia to issue what many smaller municipalities in the state have been asking for several weeks. So what is that revelation? Well apparently Kemp just found out in the last 24 hours that the COVID-19 virus can be spread by those who have the virus but are asymptomatic.

It seems that Kemp is a little late to the party. The vast majority of Americans have known for quite sometime that people can spread this virus, without knowing they have it. It's almost criminal that the Governor of the 8th largest state in the Nation, somehow did not know this. Now many will use works like, "stupid, dumb, what a moron..." to describe the Governor. But that is not the real problem. I am sure that Kemp is well educated, but like many Republicans he is "intellectually lazy". Kemp didn't care to obtain all the facts about one of the most deadly diseases to hit mankind, because he just couldn't be motivated to do so. Kemp decided instead that he would just wait for somebody from the CDC to call him and tell him that the virus could be spread from people that seemed to be perfectly healthy.

I myself knew that the virus could be spread from a person that had the virus but was asymptomatic, not because I am super intelligent or graduated from an Ivy League school, its because I sought out that information because I knew it was important information for me to obtain. Sadly many people in the state of Georgia were needlessly exposed to a deadly disease because their Governor waited around for a phone call. Ironically the CDC is located inside the state of Georgia. Kemp could have literally phoned the director of the CDC and obtained this information or could have looked it up online. But like many Republicans Kemp was just too lazy to bother. He assumed others would do it for him. He assumed!

https://www.ajc.com/news/one-month-after-warnings-kemp-puts-georgia-lockdown/db6Aodv3LzftEV89WA1EOI/

[SheltieLover]

1. Intelkectually inept, IMO

Uneducable.

[uponit7771]

2. The true lazy part of Kemp is his choice to believe a guy who ran a fake charity that involved vets

[hatrack]

3. Vacant, void, empty, missing, absent, null

Might be more expressive/accurate assessments.

[Skittles]

4. these same assholes want "limited government"

[magicarpet]

5. Why lift a finger ? It is only hunan life swirling round in the toilet.

Soon the dead will be buried and we can get back to the important things like playing golf.

[morillon]

6. I don't buy that he didn't know.

That's what he's saying, but I don't think it's credible. News organizations have said for weeks that people can shed virus without having symptoms yet -- or without ever getting symptoms. He has public health experts advising him, and even if he's somehow been under a rock this whole time, they sure haven't, and they would've told him. And, as people have pointed out, the CDC is right here. You know the medical professionals advising him have a direct bat phone to folks at CDC.

I think the calculation went more like this. Maybe not many people will die, despite what my experts are telling me, and if I just let these local county and city governments bear the burden of (and get grief for) lockdowns in their areas, I don't run afoul of Daddy Trump and his troll minions. So, I can sit up here in the governor's chair and disavow any responsibility when the economy goes to shit. I think recent models revealed doomsday numbers, to the point that they were scarier even than being on Trump's shit list.

I also suspect, from what I've heard from former colleagues, that movers and shakers in big companies in Georgia were like, dude, WTF. Large businesses here have been making up their own policies that are stricter than anything coming out of Kemp. They have a keen interest in their people, y'know, not dying, so they've been more proactive.

[npk]

7. You may be right

Two of his top advisers, on March 2nd, were advised by top CDC officials, you would have to imagine that they would have briefed him in full and that the topic of asymptomatic patients with the virus were still contagious would have come up. Either way it is yet another prime example as to why Republicans should not be elected to any political office at any level.

[blitzen]

8. I am almost certain that Kemp is lying about this: HE DID KNOW...

and he was just being a Trump toady, only changing course after Trump (kind of, sort of) did. He is more afraid of being seen as not following Der Trumpenfuhrer than he is of being seen as an ignorant dumbshit.

DeSantis is lying too. Says he changed his mind after Trump came to see the gravity of the situation. No, he changed his mind because he was sued and a judge was likely to order him to issue stay-at-home order.

Lying sacks of shit who only care about sucking up to the vile and base Trumpian "base."

[npk]

9. Good points

He may be lying. I was giving him some benefit of the doubt that he probably doesn't deserve. DeSantis and Kemp are two of a kind. Tired of them both.

[Permanut]

10. Let's give him a break here..

After all, it's not like the headquarters of the CDC is in his state, so he could easily contact them. Oh, wait, never mind.