{"id":806863,"date":"2020-04-28T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=990831"},"modified":"2020-04-28T06:01:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T12:01:00","slug":"atlanta-mayor-criticizes-premature-decision-to-reopen-georgia-during-covid-19-on-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/atlanta-mayor-criticizes-premature-decision-to-reopen-georgia-during-covid-19-on-daily-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Mayor Criticizes \u2018Premature\u2019 Decision to Reopen Georgia During COVID-19 on \u2018Daily Show\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-28-at-7.29.47-AM-1-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">During an interview with Trevor Noah on <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-daily-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-daily-show\" data-tag=\"the-daily-show\">The Daily Show<\/a><\/i> Monday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms expressed her concerns about Georgia\u2019s plans to reopen its economy as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/coronavirus\/\" id=\"auto-tag_coronavirus\" data-tag=\"coronavirus\">coronavirus<\/a> cases and deaths continue to rise in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bottoms acknowledged that she had a good working relationship with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, despite their different party affiliations, but she called his decision to start reopening the state \u201cpremature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI understand there\u2019s a huge economic strain on so many business owners and that\u2019s very real, but we\u2019re balancing that in life, literally,\u201d Bottoms said. \u201cWe don\u2019t get to pick and choose who gets infected and how severe their illness will be, and when one person is infected then it\u2019s an entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Bottoms pushed back against the conception that Georgia is better suited to reopen now because it\u2019s easier for people to keep apart from each other than a place like New York City. She noted the Atlanta metropolitan area has a population of 6 million, its airport is one of the busiest in the world and she cited a recent report that suggested the South could still end up bearing the brunt of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\/\" id=\"auto-tag_covid-19\" data-tag=\"covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> because of issues like underlying health conditions and poverty rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat we know, looking at countries across the globe, is that the way they\u2019ve been able to flatten their numbers is to be very deliberate in keeping people separated,\u201d Bottoms said. \u201cAnd our numbers in this state are continuing to rise daily, our death rates are continuing to rise and we aren\u2019t testing people. And we may have [hospital] beds to offer to people, but it\u2019s like we\u2019re saying to people, \u2018Yeah, go bowling, and if you get sick I have a bed for you.\u2019 That makes no sense to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/atlanta-mayor-keisha-lance-bottoms-criticizes-geogia-economy-re-open-daily-show-interview-990831\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show Monday, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms expressed her concerns about Georgia\u2019s plans to reopen its economy as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise in the state. Bottoms acknowledged that she had a good working relationship with Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, despite their different party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 20:06:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}