August 31, 2021 8:09 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, August 31
Good morning! It’s the last day of August, which means that fake fall is only a few weeks away!
- How long will the power be out in New Orleans? At least a few weeks.
- FTLOG, stop taking the horse paste, dummies! Calls to the Georgia Poison Center are on the rise. If you took too much cattle worm goo, call this number: 1-800-222-1222. And then go find yourself something that will keep you from getting super sick from COVID (and isn’t recommended by any of the COVID grifters since it’s free and widely-available): a vaccine.
- Behavioral healthcare providers in Georgia are doing their level best to provide critical services during the pandemic, but are struggling amidst funding shortfalls and staffing limitations.
- Parents at one metro Atlanta private school are upset that the high rate of COVID outbreaks that began happening after the school dropped last year’s strict mask and quarantine protocol.
- As of this morning, ten public schools in Henry County are closed because of high rates of COVID infections.
- Meanwhile, DPH head Dr. Kathleen Toomey announced yesterday that more than half of the COVID outbreaks in Georgia are happening in K-12 schools.
- A high school that may or may not actually exist somehow ended up in ESPN’s showcase game this weekend.
- …while two real Georgia high schools, Rabin County High School and Pace Academy, played on ESPN as well (RCHS knocked Pace’s hat in the dirt).
- An incredible restoration of a Vermeer work you’ve likely seen before reveals the artist’s true work(s).
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Taking equine Ivermectin is not a good idea. The dosage levels are too high for humans. However, Ivermectin has shown remarkable value as a treatment for tropical diseases. There should be more research into its use as a treatment, and prophylactic, for Covid 19. The horse paste jokes need to stop.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34318930/
Objectives: To assess the efficacy and safety of ivermectin compared to no treatment, standard of care, placebo, or any other proven intervention for people with COVID-19 receiving treatment as inpatients or outpatients, and for prevention of an infection with SARS-CoV-2 (postexposure prophylaxis).
Far right wing led reopen early state continues getting crushed by covid. If only there had been some way to see this coming…
Our county, Oglethorpe, just went virtual due to rising cases.
https://www.wgauradio.com/news/oglethorpe-co-schools-will-revert-distance-learning/4AAFXEAXHVC5DCJQPSQUZKJVF4/
I’m starting to see a few more masks.
Vaccination rate is 40% now it was around 35%.
Maybe Brian Kemp will grow a backbone and due more than wring his hands.
The Governor says “I do intend to one day run for President”
https://bittersoutherner.com/summer-voices-guest-editor/charlayne-hunter-gault/stacey-abrams
It was Stacey Abrams who said she planned to run for President. She is not the Governor.
In her mind she is. She never conceded.
Many people say that Stacey is a black Trump. He says similar things about his last election.