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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>New data comes in about 4 pm every day. We just heard of a bad setback for the old good guys on the west coast:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/">https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-cases-tracking-outbreak/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=547 height=374 style='width:5.6979in;height:3.8958in' id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D64F0F.BEF3A2B0"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Of course there is the usual useless finger-pointing: protests, picnics, the beaches, the bars, but regardless, we had a partial re-opening last week and now this.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The consequences are easy enough to foresee. The governor has already said we can’t shut down the entire California economy: the budget shortfall is too great.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So now… we get more cases. We are out of options here.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Damn.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>