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Well, let's begin with the continuing big news of the last week and a half.

States are following Georgia and Florida's late.

And the reason for this is because you're not seeing massive upticks and massive spikes

in cases and deaths in Florida and Georgia. In fact, you're seeing a downtick in cases and deaths in Florida and Georgia, particularly the positives as a percentage of the greater number of tests that are currently being taken. And this is why all 50 states have reopened it to some degree, according to the New York Times. Connecticut was among the last states to take a plunge back to business on Wednesday. It's stay-at-home order lifted and stores, museums, and offices were allowed to reopen. Not far away in New Jersey, the reopening has been more limited, with only curbside pickup at retail stores and allowances for certain industries. The contrast illustrates a dynamic playing out across the country as governors grapple with how to handle a pandemic. like Humbs with no political playbook. States in the northeast and on the west coast, as well as Democratic-led

states in the Midwest have moved the slowest toward reopening. Several governors taking a county-by-county

approach. By contrast, several states in the South opened earlier and more fully.

Though social distancing requirements were put in place, restaurants, salons, gyms, and other

businesses have been open in Georgia for several weeks. There has not been the predicted spike. We keep hearing next week will be the spike in Georgia. It has now been a month since Georgia moved toward reopening in a very significant way. There has not yet been the spike that was predicted. Now, you would see presumably an uptick in positive numbers of cases because people are associating once again, but it has not been this overwhelming wave that we were supposedly going to hear about.

You see, isolated cases where churches,

for example, have had to shut down. There was one in Texas. I believe there was one in Georgia,

both of which shut down after people got too close to one another and a couple people died,

but that is not particularly shocking. Again, once you let people out of lockdown and they are associating with one another, then you are likely to see a little bit more transmission of the virus. That does not mean you are overwhelming the health care system, which of course was the goal of lockdown in the first place, was to prevent the overwhelming. Alaska has now announced it will go even further. On Tuesday, Governor Mike Dunleavy said he would lift restrictions on businesses by the end of the week, allowing restaurants, bars, gyms, and others to return to full capacity.

That's because Alaska has not been hard hit in any way. Sports and recreational activities will also be allowed. Dunlevy said it will all be open just like it was prior to the virus. He said social distancing strategies would be recommended but not required. even as it plans to, as announced plans to ease restrictions on residents, Alaska said it was maintaining its requirement

the travelers arriving in the state-state quarantine. recommended but not required. Even as it plans to, as announced plans to ease restrictions on

residents, Alaska said it was maintaining its requirement to travelers arriving in the state-state

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