There are currently 6,326 reported cases in the US and 106 reported deaths. That's an increase of 2,553 cases and 37 deaths over the course of about a day and a half.
New York has 1,706 cases and 13 deaths.
Washington has 1,014 cases and 53 deaths.
California has 698 cases and 12 deaths.
Here in New Jersey we have 267 cases and 3 deaths.
The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut have gotten together (what a concept!) and effectively shut down all non-essential businesses and instituted a "voluntary" curfew from 8 PM to 5 AM. It's a funny kind of voluntary since they're making it very plain if you're caught on the street without a good reason they're going to be taking a dim view of that.
Murphy has shut down all the malls and even the casinos until further notice.
Things are clearly a bit out of control in the tri-state area and both Cuomo and Murphy have requested help from the Army Corp of Engineers to begin converting areas, including currently closed hospitals, into overflow care units in order to free up space in the main hospitals for virus victims.
Even if they manage to increase capacity significantly you can't just clone doctors and nurses.
New York appears to have taken down the area on it's website where they were listing known cases by county. I'm not sure if that means they're going to start playing things close to the vest or they just don't want to bother updating it when no matter what they do it's probably going to be inaccurate.
Even Trump has changed his tune and appears to be taking this seriously at last. Like clockwork the GOP propaganda arm, Fox News, stopped calling the virus some sort of hoax and began saying how serious things are.
Hopefully the morons who have been ignoring all of the instructions about "social distancing" and "hygiene" will start listening.
I'm trapped in my house with my wife and two daughters. Luckily there's enough room to remain relatively separate because if there wasn't it wouldn't take long for us to get on each others nerves.
I have no idea where this is going. I set up home deliveries of groceries. Whether I'll actually get anything or not is anyone's guess.
No one seems to know how much testing is actually being done or if they know they're not saying. They keep talking about testing facilities at Bergen Community College and PNC Arts Center but so far it's only talk.
Mike Pence indicated on the weekend that by the end of the week a million test kits would be distributed. If that's in progress I haven't heard anything about it.
The Stock Market is pretty much in the trash can for the foreseeable future and the politicians seem to be more focused on the economic aspects of this mess than the health ones.
They're considering giving $1,000 cash to every adult as a stimulus. That would be very nice but it doesn't do me any good if I'm dead or stuck in my house.
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