It gets real very quickly.

All New Orleans did wrong was to listen to the idea he virus was going to magically disappear. The drive to hold Mardi Gras was strong and that is all anyone needed to hear as it was not the emergency others thought it was. Now, it is a growing tragedy.

March 31, 2020
By Sam Karlin

Gov. John Bel Edwards talks about flattening the curve while addressing steps being taken to fight the Coronavirus during a press conference at GOHSEP Monday March 30, 2020, in Baton Rouge, La.

After seeing "sobering" increases (click here) in cases and deaths of the new coronavirus Tuesday, Gov. John Bel Edwards said he is doubling the number of beds in a temporary hospital being built in the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans to 2,000 beds.

“As you can all see from the numbers today we still have a long way to go," Edwards said, calling on residents to comply better with the state's stay-at-home order.

The state has already started building medical pods in the mammoth convention center and planned to have 1,000 beds in the facility by Sunday. The second 1,000 beds will be ready by April 20th, Edwards said at a press conference Tuesday....