You will have another full-time job if you try to determine the motivation for all the Georgia state laws that affect only certain counties or municipalities. There are probably hundreds on the books.
I don't understand why GPB would even mention Lincoln County consolidating its voting precincts into one location. Lincoln County has a population of about 8000 and a land area of less than 300 square miles. My home county is slightly larger in land area and has six times the population. When we consolidated to one voting location there was a big improvement in efficiency, and it cut expenses considerably. The maximum distance traveled to the polling location probably doubled from 6 miles to 12 miles and the time required to vote probably also doubled from 7 minutes to 14 minutes. Hardly earth-shaking inconvenience. Most Georgia counties are really tiny.
Your opposition to the voting integrity law is puzzling. It adds no hardships to voting and it is worthwhile if it discourages fraud. It also prevents the SOS from illegally changing voting requirements by signing an agreement with Stacey Abrams or some other grifter. That's good enough for me.
My county is really rural, but larger at 35K people and 473 square miles. We have multiple voting locations on Election Day but only one for early voting.
As to the federal voter bill, I just basically don’t want to federalize election law. Every state is different so let them do what works for them.
I was going to write something similar. Georgia has 159 counties. If you want to look for real Republican suppression at the legislative level, keep an eye on counties south of Dooly county in south/southwest and coastal Georgia. These are Black dominated agricultural counties where Democrats dominate election boards. Looking at north Georgia counties and Fulton especially isn’t going to get you much except fixing some long festering problems and low hanging fruit.
David, for $5o worth of ice and bottled water (assuming it's free of political slogans) you could provide enough water for almost all of the voters spending more than 3o minutes in line. You just have to turn it over to election officials for distribution. In my county's one polling station there are a number of water fountains and someone provides cups. Whining about measures to prevent politicking at the polls is silly so I assume you are joking.
Natural Immunity shouldn't even be mentioned anymore. It is completely useless in the face of Omicron. Although it was always overrated. I have a cousin who has had Covid 4 times. All positive tests. Obviously that isn't normal and the reason he's had it so many times is because he's an idiot preacher who somehow thinks its his job to visit sick members of his church. But it does prove you are never really immune to this disease.
With people sick of Covid and pretty much giving up on protecting themselves it seems that this disease will never end. Well unless a mutation ends up increasing the death rate and it kills us all.
You need to study immunology. Natural immunity is why we have omicron in the first place. And every year a new variant will emerge as Covid becomes endemic. We still have H1N1 (Spanish flu variants) after 100 years and at times it does kill people. But our bodies are equipped to become more and more immune and pass that immunity down to future generations. Therefore it’s highly unlikely it will kill us all. If it does, I take that as primary evidence it was human engineered for gain of function. Nature doesn’t behave that way.
I think Scott is a bit hyperbolic, but: we can also recognize that our immune systems are not always capable of providing lasting immunity, whether faced with a rapidly mutating virus or due to age or genetic variability in immune response and memory.
It's why vaccines are so important: a vaccine that has a significantly lower risk of negative outcome (say 1 in a million) is undoubtedly better than facing a virus that has a 1 in 100 risk for death, and 1 in 2 risk for longer term conditions.
Sure let's have another virus mutating uncontrolled. Influenza was around for 1500 years at least when H1N1 killed 50 million people. New strains of the flu virus are showing up all the time. And those are all natural. All it will take is one slightly more contagious and slightly more deadly for it to send humanity back to the stone age. Corona viruses also aren't new and are naturally occurring.
Influenza is a perfect example of how flawed natural immunity is.
You will have another full-time job if you try to determine the motivation for all the Georgia state laws that affect only certain counties or municipalities. There are probably hundreds on the books.
I don't understand why GPB would even mention Lincoln County consolidating its voting precincts into one location. Lincoln County has a population of about 8000 and a land area of less than 300 square miles. My home county is slightly larger in land area and has six times the population. When we consolidated to one voting location there was a big improvement in efficiency, and it cut expenses considerably. The maximum distance traveled to the polling location probably doubled from 6 miles to 12 miles and the time required to vote probably also doubled from 7 minutes to 14 minutes. Hardly earth-shaking inconvenience. Most Georgia counties are really tiny.
Your opposition to the voting integrity law is puzzling. It adds no hardships to voting and it is worthwhile if it discourages fraud. It also prevents the SOS from illegally changing voting requirements by signing an agreement with Stacey Abrams or some other grifter. That's good enough for me.
My county is really rural, but larger at 35K people and 473 square miles. We have multiple voting locations on Election Day but only one for early voting.
As to the federal voter bill, I just basically don’t want to federalize election law. Every state is different so let them do what works for them.
I was going to write something similar. Georgia has 159 counties. If you want to look for real Republican suppression at the legislative level, keep an eye on counties south of Dooly county in south/southwest and coastal Georgia. These are Black dominated agricultural counties where Democrats dominate election boards. Looking at north Georgia counties and Fulton especially isn’t going to get you much except fixing some long festering problems and low hanging fruit.
David, for $5o worth of ice and bottled water (assuming it's free of political slogans) you could provide enough water for almost all of the voters spending more than 3o minutes in line. You just have to turn it over to election officials for distribution. In my county's one polling station there are a number of water fountains and someone provides cups. Whining about measures to prevent politicking at the polls is silly so I assume you are joking.
Natural Immunity shouldn't even be mentioned anymore. It is completely useless in the face of Omicron. Although it was always overrated. I have a cousin who has had Covid 4 times. All positive tests. Obviously that isn't normal and the reason he's had it so many times is because he's an idiot preacher who somehow thinks its his job to visit sick members of his church. But it does prove you are never really immune to this disease.
With people sick of Covid and pretty much giving up on protecting themselves it seems that this disease will never end. Well unless a mutation ends up increasing the death rate and it kills us all.
You need to study immunology. Natural immunity is why we have omicron in the first place. And every year a new variant will emerge as Covid becomes endemic. We still have H1N1 (Spanish flu variants) after 100 years and at times it does kill people. But our bodies are equipped to become more and more immune and pass that immunity down to future generations. Therefore it’s highly unlikely it will kill us all. If it does, I take that as primary evidence it was human engineered for gain of function. Nature doesn’t behave that way.
I think Scott is a bit hyperbolic, but: we can also recognize that our immune systems are not always capable of providing lasting immunity, whether faced with a rapidly mutating virus or due to age or genetic variability in immune response and memory.
It's why vaccines are so important: a vaccine that has a significantly lower risk of negative outcome (say 1 in a million) is undoubtedly better than facing a virus that has a 1 in 100 risk for death, and 1 in 2 risk for longer term conditions.
Humans suck at judging relative risk.
Sure let's have another virus mutating uncontrolled. Influenza was around for 1500 years at least when H1N1 killed 50 million people. New strains of the flu virus are showing up all the time. And those are all natural. All it will take is one slightly more contagious and slightly more deadly for it to send humanity back to the stone age. Corona viruses also aren't new and are naturally occurring.
Influenza is a perfect example of how flawed natural immunity is.
Perhaps your daughter has caught two different strains of COVID, or: perhaps natural immunity isn't a guarantee.