Louisiana Covid Update - Day 44

Belle and I have been doing improvements on the hospitality of our shop today, adding another refrigerator and tying in an ice maker.  We've been busy.

We turn to the Louisiana Dept of Health for today's covid numbers.
We have 27,286 cases reported today. An increase of 183 cases
Fatalities to date are 1758.  That's 61 of our neighbors who passed away.
Hospital census today is 1666, that's 17 less than yesterday.  Of those, 244 are on ventilators, a fair decrease since yesterday.
17,303 Louisianans have recovered from Covid-19.

By every rational standard, we're through the worst and our case count is declining.

I was listening to Moon Griffon (a talk show about Louisiana politics), and it seems that the legislature is pissed.  Evidently Governor Edwards told them that he intended to re-open the state, then changed his mind.  The legislators are planning to over-ride the governor, and they can do it on a simple majority vote.

State Rep. Alan Seabaugh talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about his legislative petition, that, if  passed, would overrule the stay-at-home emergency order of Governor John Bel Edwards.

Louisiana politics is always interesting, but may get more interesting i the next several days.