For the first time, I really think we are looking at a minimum of quarter-a-million deaths.

I'm in Atlanta. Roads are really busy. Not seen so much traffic for months. It is like stay-at-home is over. It is as though life is suddenly back to how it was. I know there are still a lot of businesses closed, but as I look at how crowded the streets are, I feel very depressed about the spread of this virus.

America doesn't have enough tests. There's little in the way of contact tracing. The numbers are still too high and have not peaked. People have mixed messages about personal protection and distancing. This isn't the way to reopen the economy. It is the worst possible way.

I don't see how it is possible that we aren't going to see a massive surge in infections and that this isn't going to keep on spreading for a long time to come. I'm not just talking about Georgia. I fear that what we have seen so far has been just the beginning. Hope that it will turn out okay isn't science. We know how insidious this virus is, and yet lawmakers have chosen a route that is going to get a lot of us killed. This is grim and it is about to get a whole lot worse.