Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms reacted with disappointment to video and images showing crowds of people — many without face masks — celebrating Cinco de Mayo on Tuesday.
Hundreds of Atlanta residents watched the U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels and U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds perform an air show over Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, May 2.
In an interview on CNN’s New Day, Mayor Bottoms said: “It was disappointing, and what was very clear was that people didn’t get anything past the message that we were open up for business. They didn’t get to the part that said that this is still a deadly virus and that you need to continue to socially distance and wear masks.”
She added: “We’re not out of the woods.”
Bottoms and other Democrats say the state is reopening too soon.
The mayor warned that a “hotspot” in the northeastern part of the state is “rapidly” growing.
But her words fell on deaf ears.
Gov. Brian Kemp lifted Georgia’s lockdown restriction on Friday, allowing clothing stores, hair salons and restaurants to reopen with strict guidelines in place.
This is Cinco de Mayo in Midtown Atlanta. Your thoughts? pic.twitter.com/dt1sZbtrNK
— Jorge Estevez (@jesteveztv) May 5, 2020
