BREAKING: Tennessee will lift lock-down rules on May 1.

[brooklynite]

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Makes sense...GOP politicians dont care if thousands die, as long

as there are enough idiots left over to vote for them.

Money is all that matters to them...

Lives have NEVER meant anything...oh if I could get a dollar for every "that's over the top" or "you are like a chicken with it's head cut off" and so many others, I would have a lot of dollars.

KNOWING this is how cons are and ALWAYS have been is something everyone could have known...

[kimbutgar]

2. When the death rate starts to increase in that state

Governor Lee will have the blood on his hands and be responsible for his constituents deaths. Please proceed and try to live with it Gov. Lee.

[bluestarone]

5. YES! Almost like RUMP telling them to JUMP off a CLIFF

They ask what's the best time!

[ProfessorGAC]

6. It's Not Great Now There

That county in the OP is Nashville. There's only about 600,000 people in that county and 20 are already dead.
Likely to be much higher by the time this order expires.
So, it's already pretty bad. I don't see how it gets "great" in 10 days.

[misanthrope]

4. So will the rest of the ruby-red South

The Confederacy is breaking their collective necks to "own the libs" by starting up as soon as possible. Georgia is starting this weekend. Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas and North Carolina are likely soon to follow.

I guess we'll see a bump in these states' cases starting in late May. That is, unless they deliberately hold back testing so as to artificially deflate the numbers. Mobile, Alabama's mayor used that tactic to get back to "business as usual" as quickly as possible. That why Mobile had a 600 percent increase in cases the first two weeks of April and are now poised to top far more populous counties in per capita cases.

[unc70]

7. North Carolina not so much

The governor of NC is a Dem.

[Igel]

8. Testing is so low as to be meaningless.

It's good for soundbites and headlines and gotcha moments.

It's also good for individual's mental health. But if they're testing mostly people with the right symptoms, and 60% of them are negative for COVID, does it really matter? You're coughing up a lung because of COVID or something else, you're not going to go and hang around gramps for the afternoon. "Ah, at least he didn't die of COVID?" "So gramps is okay?" "No, he died of the flu. But at least it wasn't COVID."

It's hospitalizations that are hard to hide, and get 90-95 of all cases (I'd guess--given New York's numbers).

[Blue_true]

9. This reminds me of a cartoon that someone posted here on DU last week.

It had Trump and Pence inside a business, with Trump turning an "open for business" sign to the door and reaching for the lock ratchet. The cartoon showed the shadow of the first "customer" in line, that was covid19.