Thursday, April 02, 2020

Louisiana Covid Update

Wow, the numbers took a huge jump today, a total of 9150, an increase of  2726 since yesterday.  Our governor attributes this to increased testing, and the inevitable log-jam of testing results chasing the initial tests.

In other news, we have some six million new unemployment claims across the US, for a total of almost ten million jobs,  The economists act like this should be some huge shock, but to anyone with two active bran cells this should come as no surprise.  When we kill off half the economy in three weeks, it should massive job losses should be no surprise.

We're in a recession, folks.  Someone made the point today that a huge sector of the economy isn't feeling much pain, and that's true during any recession.  For example, Belle and I both are financially secure.  Our money continues to come in like clockwork, but we're not spending it on restaurants and other entertainment.  The folks who are hurt most are the working stiffs.  And, they are the backbone of the economy.

I'm worried about out country, both in an economic and a political sense.  In the past three weeks, we have crippled the economy, and suffered the greatest contraction of individual freedom in my lifetime.  We can't travel, can't enjoy our leisure, and in our particular case, we aren't even allowed in Texas.  I never thought that I would see individual travel restrictions between states.

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