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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.

I mostly agree and my aunt was part of the statistics (died 4/23) BTW this is not really a pandemic but an asymmetric warfare event. Based on that I think we need to take some strong decontamination actions using military grade equipment and agents in the areas where the virus is most prevalent. The number of deaths have gone up and the death rate has been steady.

We are in Phase 3 clinical testing of HCQ/Z-pack/Zinc which is the FDA approval phase for use which should start to arrest it.

Excellent work has been done by DoughtyOne daily which is what I monitor too:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3840320/posts