https://spectator.org/you-only-die-once/
"...Hindsight recriminations are useless, but it would be helpful if media “experts” like Ron Fournier demonstrated a capacity to learn from their errors. Why was it so easy for them to assume that Brian Kemp didn’t know what he was doing? In point of fact, Georgia’s deaths from COVID-19 peaked on April 16, just four days before Kemp announced his plan to begin reopening the state. Although it doesn’t seem that Kemp could have known on April 20 that the daily death toll wouldn’t spike up again, the upward trajectory of that grim statistic had clearly lost its momentum. Since peaking at 54 deaths on April 16, the daily number has fallen more or less steadily; by May 4, it was down to 28 and, while subsequent death counts are still listed as “preliminary,” the decline has apparently continued, averaging 17 per day during the week of May 8-14. That’s a 55 percent decline from the 38 coronavirus deaths Georgia recorded on April 20, when Fournier warned that Kemp would have “blood on his hands.”
Georgia has so far recorded 1,609 deaths from COVID-19, which is 152 deaths per million residents. That death rate is 89 percent lower than New York’s rate...."
"...What we do know is that, so far, ending the statewide lockdown in Georgia has not produced the catastrophe that the media doomsayers predicted. Have they learned anything? Probably not. When confronted by his critics, Ron Fournier used his “apology” as an excuse to blame Trump, citing overly optimistic statements the president made about the coronavirus outbreak in January and February. And then someone pointed out that Fournier himself has promoted an optimistic view in February. Oops.
Conservative blogger Ace of Spades suggests that perhaps Fournier and his media peers are not just accidentally wrong, but that “everything they say is a lie and they are vicious, evil subhumans.” This is an interesting hypothesis, and I doubt any of us will live long enough to see it disproven. Oh, the mysteries of science!"
