Georgia is intentionally the "open up" poster child, with the state cooking the books on numbers and the state openly ignoring the CDC guidelines.
Its even been the subject of a thread here; I think it was something about success and sunshine?
The problem though: HUMAN NATURE. Georgia people staying home because, in part, they dont trust their government.
THE HEADLINE:
Reopening reality check: Georgia's jobs aren’t flooding back
A month after easing lockdown restrictions, the state is still seeing a steady stream of unemployment claims, economic data shows.
MULTIPLE REASONS, but one of them featured in the analysis, lack of faith in government:
"And in Georgia, public polling indicates that confidence has yet to return. Nearly two-thirds of Georgia residents in a recent Washington Post-Ipsos poll said they felt their state was lifting restrictions too quickly, and only 39 percent said they approved of Kemp’s handling of the outbreak.
“We’ve been chasing a bit of a false narrative that the economic hit is about the restrictions and not the disease itself,” said Julia Coronado, president and founder of Macropolicy Perspectives, an economic research consulting firm. “The economic story really isn’t about lockdowns, and we’re going to make mistakes by pursuing that narrative. It really is about the disease, and how fearful people are about getting sick, and how businesses are going to operate in a world where this virus is with us.”
