The case rate is up 10 percent from where it was a week ago. If you recall, I’ve been saying that April and May could be bad, really bad. Spring has sprung and everyone is “feeling upbeat” and therefore the protections and mitigation measures have been relaxed in states and local communities. The variants of the virus are spreading like wildfire.
If you follow women’s shoe fashions, what you see in Italy comes to the U.S. in a couple of years. It also appears that what we see in Europe as a whole and Germany and Italy in particular, as it pertains to the coronavirus, provides a road map for the spike in infections, hospitalizations and deaths that will come as sure as May flowers follow April’s showers.