New Orleans as the epicenter of the coronavirus
I refer to Katrina as the 2005 Federal Flood – as many bloggers who covered the event do. After all, it was the failure of the levees built by the Corp of Engineers that caused the flooding. So it comes as no surprise to me the pandemic spread of the coronavirus points back to failure of the federal government to warn us properly.
January 2020 – US senators debriefed on the potential spread of COVID-19 sold stocks.
March 2020 – New Orleans declared epicenter for U.S. pandemic because Mardi Gras fueled its spread.
March 2020 – Louisiana senators debriefed with other US senators in January claims China is at fault.
I moved to Mississippi in the summer of 2018. This morning, the warm temperature dipped to the 50s, so I went for my walk later than usual. I saw something glittering from a tree and looked up to see gold Mardi Gras beads caught in the branches. Bay Saint Louis is so close to New Orleans, some refer to it as New Orleans East East. It feels like an Andy Griffith version of New Orleans. I stared at the beads – in February this year, I had marched down this same street with the Krewe of 100 WOMEN DBA for the Fat Tuesday parade.
Now the press is having a field day with New Orleans. The City supposedly threw care to the wind to have its grand outdoor party. Sadly, the people we allow to govern us – like the Corp of Engineers who intentionally did not follow specs to build the levees – or the Louisiana senators who could have used the information that prompted their colleagues to sell millions in stocks to stop Mardi Gras – failed again.
So here I am jumping back into the blog after a long hiatus. What shall I call COVID-19 + coronavirus + pandemic? The 2020 Federal Mislead? The 2020 Federal Blindside? Like a true Southerner, I’m looking for that perfect nickname that most accurately describes another mess the federal government has gotten us into.
