\"I think that people are obviously anxious and even angry about COVID-19. Loved ones are dying, people are losing their jobs and I think there’s a lot of frustration, a lot of angst and I think that the rhetoric that comes out of the White House doesn’t help at all,\" she said. \"It doesn’t give people much hope. And I think it's all converging together.\"
Bottoms, who has been talked about as a potential running mate for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, also expressed disappointment in the governor for reopening the economy while the state is still in the throes of the pandemic. Georgia is one of several states that continue to see a rising number of coronavirus cases.
On Monday, the Georgia Department of Public Health confirmed 97,064 coronavirus cases in the state, an increase of 6,571 cases since Friday.
Bottoms said that while Atlanta has taken a phased approach to reopening, elsewhere the reopening has been \"too aggressive.\"
\"It was too soon and we're paying for it not just in Georgia but we're paying for it across the country and people are paying for it with their lives,\" Bottoms said.
While President Donald Trump has said at recent rallies that schools across the country should reopen in the fall and he and First Lady Melania Trump were scheduled to participate on Tuesday in a National Dialogue on Safely Reopening America's Schools, Bottoms suggested that schools in Atlanta, which are controlled by independently elected boards, may not be ready to reopen by the beginning of August, when classes traditionally begin.
\"I expect that we'll have more announcements soon but with the way the numbers are up I don't know how it can possibly be safe to send kids back into the school for the sake of our teachers,\" Bottoms said. \"The kids may be OK but our teachers will certainly be at risk.\"
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