Here in Minnesota, we’ve started opening up. Many of the businesses that the governor ordered closed are now allowed to be open at 50% capacity with some social distancing restrictions. I’ve seen a couple of stories saying he’s facing pressure from business groups to go to 100% by the 19th of June but there’s no indication yet how that will work out. In Minnesota’s bicameral legislature, it looks like the Senate will move to strip the governor of his peacetime emergency powers to issue such orders, but the House doesn’t seem inclined to go along with the Senate.
Our town has a once-a-year Big Garbage Day that’s usually in May, but got pushed back until June 13th due to Covid-19. With a few exceptions like large appliances, they’ll take almost anything, for free. Oddly enough, my wife put me to work:
Coronavirus News and Analysis:
WHO walks back comments on asymptomatic coronavirus spread, says much is still unknown
Spike in coronavirus cases in Napa County, Calif. linked to Memorial Day gatherings
Myth circulates online that Italy discovered COVID-19 is a bacteria, curable by taking paracetamol
Not peer-reviewed, but preliminary evidence suggests dogs can detect COVID-19 positive persons
Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On — Especially During the Coronavirus Pandemic
Burundi President Dies Of Sudden Heart Attack At 55; COVID-19 Suspected
Fears grow of an eviction apocalypse
A second wave of the coronavirus is on the way. When it arrives, we will lack the will to deal with it. Despite all the sacrifices of the past months, the virus is likely to win—or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it already has.
…it is now difficult to imagine that anybody could muster the political will to impose a full-scale lockdown for a second time. As one poll in Pennsylvania found, nearly nine out of 10 Republicans trusted “the information you hear about coronavirus from medical experts” back in April. Now just about one in three does. With public opinion more polarized than it was a few months ago, and the presidential election looming, any attempt to deal with a resurgence of the virus is likely to be even more haphazard, contentious, and ineffective than it was the first time around.
One Month After Reopening, AZ Sees Record COVID Case Growth, ICUs Nearing Capacity
Chris Martenson’s latest:
