Brian Kemp Has to be One of the Dumbest Governors in Office

Before his announcement Wednesday, Kemp had come under pressure to expand earlier orders that closed bars and nightclubs, but not restaurants, and limited the size of many public gatherings. Saying extreme measures would cripple the economy in regions relatively untouched by the virus, Kemp had rejected arguments that a failure to act more boldly would cause a further strain on Georgia’s health care system, resulting in more deaths.

But new information about the virus’ spread, Kemp said Wednesday, was “a game-changer.”

What was that "new information", you might ask?

Kemp said he was “finding out that this virus is now transmitting before people see signs.”

“Those individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad, but we didn’t know that until the last 24 hours,” he said.

Damn near everyone else in the country, if not the world, has known for months that the coronavirus can be transmitted by people who are asymptomatic or presymptomatic. That's the rationale for "social distancing", which is why nearly ten million Americans have been thrown out of work in a two week period of time.

But, apparently, the reasons for all of that never penetrated the meters-thick skull of Brian Kemp.

Until now.