>> Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp, is currently in the process of opening his state up and
loosening social distancing guidelines. And this is going to be a complete and utter disaster
especially since recent data indicates that the number of coronavirus' deaths has gone
up. the number of people who have contracted the virus in the state of Georgia has gone
up and doesn't seem to really hinder any of the efforts that Kemp has in reopening the
state.
So just to give you some background on what he's doing, he plans on reopening, it makes
no sense to me, things like movie theaters, gyms, hair salons, the types of places where
you can't help but be in close contact with people. And so just to give you the numbers,
since April 1st, Georgia averages 764 new cases and 35 deaths per day.
The state reported though 909 new cases and 85 new deaths on Monday when Kemp announced
plans to ease these restrictions. And just to be a little more detailed and specific,
establishments including gyms, bowling alleys, body art studios, hair designers and nail
care artists could re-open for minimum basic operations.
From next Monday, movie theaters can start selling tickets and restaurants will no longer
be limited to take-out options, although they must still adhere to social distancing guidelines.
So go ahead, John. I wanna hear what you have to say about this.
>> How are almost any of those suppose to adhere to social distancing guidelines?
Okay, so let's go nail care artists, gonna be difficult to do someone's nails from six
feet away. I've tried, I haven't figured out a way to do it yet. Theatres, okay, you have
to be six feet away. That means you could fit ten people in a theater, maybe?
I don't know. Restaurant, couple, two tops? Honestly, I don't know because they'd be too
close. It would have to be a very long table. It would have to be like royalty, basically,
across the room. It's so stupid. I am really hoping-
>> Don't worry, John, we have the longest tables.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself. >> People didn't even understand how long.
The best case scenario here, best case scenario is Brian Kemp opens up the state and nobody
goes. Just like when one of these right wing talkers does a show at a university campus.
Best case scenario is there's no protest because nobody's there.
Yeah, have them open up a theater and have it not have a single person in it. I don't
see many of these movies theaters probably aren't gonna wanna open up. Because do you
wanna be the movie theater that we find out a couple of weeks later is traced back to
a bunch of people dying from coronavirus?
Do you want that to be the memory that people have of your movie theater or of your body
art studio? You got essential sleeves you gotta do maybe even if it kills someone? Does
anyone think that? >> Well, I'm glad that you mentioned that,
John. Because one of the things that Trump administration wants to do is offer protections
for businesses that might face lawsuits by individuals who contract the virus including
their workers, by the way, who contract the virus and suffer the consequences of that.
That's the way Republicans think. It's about going out of their way to ensure that the
economic system that they've benefited from so handsomely is intact, it's protected. But
the very people who make those businesses run in the first place, the workers, get no
protections and have no legal recourse if they find themselves in a disastrous situation
by contracting the virus.
This is the way that they think. And it's gonna end so poorly. Because what they keep
citing, what Republicans keep citing is, well, if you look at the reports, the actual number
of deaths ended up being much less than what we previously expected, which means that we're
fine.
Everyone's over-exaggerating, we need to get back to work. Yeah, but why are you pretending
like we haven't been social distancing for over a month now?
>> Yeah. >> Is it over a month? Almost a month now,
in most cases. >> Yeah, I think it might be over. Yeah, again,
hopefully nobody actually goes out there.
But if not, then start the timer right now, we're gonna see in 15 to 19 days how many
people are getting it per day. Assuming that they're even doing the testing. Because the
sort of guy that would open up the state way premature is also the sort of guy that would
be hindering every effort whatsoever to get testing to the level it needs to be.
And so people will get it in a couple of weeks. People are gonna have coronavirus, lots of
them. We might or might not actually know about it.
>> People see what's happening. Some of the important information is getting through even
to conservative voters. And I just wanna be clear that what we're seeing with these protests
throughout the country is not representative of public opinion.
What these conservative groups are trying to do is sway public opinion in the direction
of opening the economy back up. But most people are skeptical of that, luckily.