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- The Board. New cases Monday: 26,641. New cases Tuesday: 26,945.
(That chart doesn't seem to line up with my numbers.) - Deaths: I'm going to skip it today because the numbers would look skewed because New York revised its number with some tricked up accounting yesterday
- A good Texas chart was right under my nose the entire time:
- Wise County cases: 7. (+2).
- Tarrant County cases (which is probably what we should be watching now): 929 (+53 yesterday)
- Barring a big uptick in numbers, I'd guess we'll "open up" no earlier than May 1st and no later than May 15th. I'd be stunned if schools open back up at all.
- He's a born showman.
- Speaking of, the IRS has set up a website where you can check on the status of your Trump 'rona Check. It's a bit overloaded at the moment. I also want to warn you that they'll treat you like your trying to access the nuclear codes.
- President Obama endorsed Biden yesterday after Biden became the de facto nominee last week. And he took a shot at Fox News while he did it.
- The Raleigh Police Department in North Carolina stepped in it yesterday. The replies became a massive dog-pile.
- I told you from the start that the Rural Uprising would also be drawn along political lines. The right wingers in the Texas Legislature proved me right yesterday.
- There would seem to be lots of liability issues with employers in opening up their business too soon when you think about reasonable care to protect employees and customers.
- Why did we have the head of Walgreens, CVS, Walmart and Target standing on stage with Trump a month ago promising drive through testing that are still almost non existent? It's been a free advertising bonanza, and Trump did it again yesterday when he read off a list of companies for no real reason other than to make a press briefing look like NASCAR. It took over 10 minutes.
- Business news breaking this morning: 8.7% seems way, way too low to me.
- March was the first time we haven't had a school shooting since 2002.
- Trump yesterday: "In sports, we want to get our sports back so importantly. . . . But we have to get our sports back. I'm tired of watching baseball games that are 14 years old." Fourteen years is oddly specific. A Twitter sleuth found this photo from fourteen years ago when the New York Mets were eliminated from the playoffs.
- For district court criminal cases, the judges better be aware of Art. V, § 7 of the Texas Constitution which requires that a district court "conduct its proceedings at the county seat of the county in which the case is pending" unless there is a statute to the contrary. There is no statute to the contrary. And it means what it says. You can't even do it by agreement.
- Messenger: Above the Fold
