Louisiana Covid Update - Day 51

As I type this, it is shortly after 12:00, and I suspect that the scientists and statisticians at the Louisiana Dept of Health can tell time.  They're supposed to update the numbers at noon.  Noon is the same time everywhere in this state, even in Baton Rouge. 

We're looking at the same numbers we saw yesterday.  SO rather than report raw numbers, let's take some perspective.  We know that the population of the state is 4.649 million (est.  US Census Bureau).  We also now that as of yesterday, 29,996 folks have tested positive for covid.  That means that currently in Louisiana, the covid has infected 0.00645 of our population.  That's not even 7/10ths of one percent.

Likewise the current death toll is 2042, which is 0.0000439 of the population.  Way less than a tenth of one percent.

For this we shut down the economy?  For this we are in day 51 of a maor ecoomic collapse?