Keisha Lance Bottoms warns the South could still bear the brunt of the pandemic
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 “premature.”
“I understand there’s a huge economic strain on so many business owners and that’s very real, but we’re balancing that in life, literally,” Bottoms said. “We don’t get to pick and choose who gets infected and how severe their illness will be, and when one person is infected then it’s an entire community.”
Bottoms pushed back against the conception that Georgia is better suited to reopen now because it’s easier for people to keep apart from each other than a place like New York City.
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