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"That’s true but he had good reason which is why we complied and I believe the situation is now under control."

It's always been under control in about 25 or 30 states, but the national death figures are still high. Last Sunday and Monday the deaths went way down, and I hoped we were seeing the beginning of the end of the pandemic.

But now the deaths have spiked again. The last three days (including today) have seen some of the highest death totals since the epidemic began. New cases are also still high, but I'm not sure if that's just a function of more testing, nor do I know how they define a "new case." So deaths is the main number I watch.

I think some states - either county-by-county or statewide - could open now, but I wouldn't recommend that for the entire country. Those states include Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Hawaii, Oregon, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, New Mexico, Maine, Texas, Tennessee, and possibly ten or twelve more. Some of those states never shut down in the first place.