In the past couple days I talked with two friends that own commercial property. One is in WI and the other is in IL. Both told me that if the state allows nonessential business to reopen before people (customers and employees) feel comfortable returning - the tentative, we're all in this together type agreements made get blowed up real good and shit will hit seriously the fan.

I don't see the longest unguarded border in the world opening any time soon w/o some degree of confidence. A "peeing section" in the local swimming pool analogy was great. To that I'd add half of of all Americans are of below average - you name it.

The Sweden thing was interesting so I did my own math yesterday. My findings were summed up in one paragraph from the CNBC link:

"The number of cases in Sweden is almost double that in neighboring Denmark (it has 8,108 cases and has reported 370 deaths) and Finland (with just over 4,000 cases and 141 deaths) that imposed strict lockdown measures. Since their populations are each about 5 million — half of Sweden’s — the rates are about the same, although the comparison could be skewed by testing numbers in each country. Still, Sweden’s 1,937 death toll is far higher than its neighbors."

This morning I was watching CNBC and heard about a preliminary study from NY showed 20% of those admitted to a hospital died. 88% of those intubated died. Oh and also the current antibody tests suck unless (and/or) people can actually get reinfected. Does the term 'Boomer remover' work for anyone here?

So where do we focus? Testing? PPE? Vents? Our budget deficit? China? Iran? The price of gas? Immigration?

This is uncharted territory for the even the folks that do this stuff for a living. Anyone else remember going to Quetico before there were maps with marked and stared campsites and stoves and tarps and lightweight canoes and and and...