What people often don't realize is that these stay at home orders have provided protection to ECONOMICALLY vulnerable people, not just physically vulnerable people.

When there's a stay-at-home order in place, businesses can make insurance claims over the fact that they're not legally allowed to be open, through no fault of their own. Furloughed workers can draw unemployment (inadequate, but better than nothing).

Once this is lifted, businesses have no legal cover; they either have to reopen or go out of business. If they reopen, furloughed workers can't draw unemployment anymore, they HAVE to risk their lives and go to work, or ASK to be fired so that they can draw unemployment again.

And nobody's gonna go into these businesses anyway. Certainly not enough to keep them from hemorrhaging income, particularly if they have to pay staff again.

It makes the economic situation worse, AND it makes the public health situation much worse.

My brother lives in Atlanta and has a heart condition. He'll be fine. He's a lawyer. He'll be working from home for the foreseeable future. A lot of people don't have that power, and they'll be forced to choose between health (their own and the public), and starvation.

I honestly hope Brian Kemp gets the bug and has a really rough time with it, just so he knows to take this fucking seriously.