Prickly City by Scott Stantis for May 06, 2020

And it still is. Nine Bay Area counties in California just instituted more stringent restrictions.

Until the Giant Asian Hornets attack your freedoms.

Going outside was forbidden? I missed that.

In New York City, the daily onslaught of death from the coronavirus has dropped to half of what it was. In Chicago, a makeshift hospital in a lakefront convention center is closing, deemed no longer needed.

And in New Orleans, new cases have dwindled to a handful each day.

Yet across America, those signs of progress obscure a darker reality.

The country is still in the firm grip of a pandemic with little hope of release. For every indication of improvement in controlling the virus, new outbreaks have emerged elsewhere, leaving the nation stuck in a steady, unrelenting march of deaths and infections.

As states continue to lift restrictions meant to stop the virus, impatient Americans are freely returning to shopping, lingering in restaurants and gathering in parks.

Regular new flare-ups and super-spreader events are expected to be close behind.

Any notion that the coronavirus threat is fading away appears to be magical thinking, at odds with what the latest numbers show.

Coronavirus in America now looks like this: More than a month has passed since there was a day with fewer than 1,000 deaths from the virus.

Almost every day, at least 25,000 new coronavirus cases are identified, meaning that the total in the United States — which has the highest number of known cases in the world with more than a million — is expanding by between 2 and 4 percent daily.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/coronavirus-deaths-cases-united-states.html

You want to listen to the man?

Pay attention to the magistrate

And while I got you in the mood

Listen to your heart

I’m alright

Nobody worry ’bout me

Why you got to gimme a fight?

Can’t you just let it be

Kenny Loggins

In less than 24 hours, Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., admitted several children with COVID-19 who are also experiencing a constellation of symptoms that resemble “Kawasaki disease,” a rare inflammatory syndrome typically affecting children under the age of 5.

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Symptoms of the disease include fever, rash, eye irritation, swollen lymph nodes and/or swelling of the hands and feet.

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These American cases are raising new concerns of a new global pattern emerging of critically ill children with COVID-19.

On Sunday, the Paediatric Intensive Care Society (PICS) in the U.K. tweeted about a rise in cases of children in critical condition.

These children were manifesting a “hyperinflammatory state” that was “multi-system” and seemed to share common features with two existing rare diseases, alarming medical experts.

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Dr. Michael Bell, the division chief for critical care at Children’s National Hospital, said 10 children in the hospital’s pediatric ICU have experienced “severe inflammation,” determined by blood tests.

The children also showed evidence of multi-organ injury, pointing to the wide impact of the inflammation on their bodies.

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“There is overlap between Kawasaki disease and toxic shock,” John said, adding that it would be hard to distinguish between them.

The salient feature of toxic shock syndrome is severely low blood pressure as well as fever and rash, which also occur in Kawasaki disease.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/children-covid-19-experiencing-symptoms-similar-kawasaki-disease/story

Way off topic, but https://disrn.com/news/view-clip-surfaces-of-biden-saying-no-need-to-prove-kavanaugh-allegations-beyond-reasonable-doubt

“A Supreme Court hearing is not a trial. It’s a job interview. It’s a job interview. And, you don’t have to prove a reasonable doubt anything as to why you shouldn’t put so and so on the court.” Query whether a presidential election is a job interview.

We’ll know when it’s safe to open ‘everything’ up. It’ll be when Fox “news” opens their studios.

Our leftist friends will find this one amusingly clever:https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-unveils-new-coronavirus-seeking-missiles

Ain’t that the truth….