Oh man. Bad numbers today, very bad.
2,535 Americans lost their lives to covid-19 today.
Active Cases increased sharply, by +26,626 cases. The numbers are still rising. There is no way the peak is behind us. That was just uninformed wishful thinking. Nonsense, basically.
We are up to 612,071 Active Cases, the number still rising, has not peaked. Is it headed for a million Active Cases?
The number needs to start getting smaller. That's how we know we have past the peak. The President was spouting nonsense, 'the peak is behind us,' total nonsense.
2/3 of the nation understands that.
We can't open businesses back up if we have not reached the peak and don't have adequate testing.
The president should have used the Defense Powers Act back in January when he limited travel from China, and ordered massive manufacture of testing capability supplies and PPE.
He had experts telling him this was coming. Why did he let us down?
It's just crazy to expect people to begin coming in close contact without knowing who has the disease and who doesn't. That's crazy talk.
"Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Thursday that he's forming the Resilient Louisiana Commission. He plans to include voices from a variety of geographic locations and economic backgrounds.
"They're gonna look at our economy, make recommendations to make our businesses more resilient so that we can open them up, get businesses open, get workers back to work. But do so in a way that adequately protects public health," Edwards said at his daily press conference.
That is something Quentin Messer Jr., of the New Orleans Business Alliance, is worried about, too.
"If you open too soon, and there's a high level of reinfections, that is devastating. That's coup de grace. You've eroded any possible public trust and people's willingness to travel to New Orleans and to even come to businesses."
Business owners worry reopening too soon could do more harm than good