purpose of creating conflict and confusion, some in the Fake News Media are saying that it is the Governors decision to open up the states, not that of the President of the United States...Let it be fully understood that this is incorrect."

The West Coast is guided by science," wrote California's Gavin Newsom. "(We) will work together on a shared vision focused on health.. Together, we’ll meet this moment." Residents of those states wildly applauded the wonders before them - competence, empathy, leadership, adults in the room.

Meanwhile, Trump increasingly, terrifyingly inhabits an alternate universe where his pandemic response is all good. With things moving toward his much-touted May 1 re-opening of a ravaged economy he largely created but takes no responsibility for, he now says he alone has the power to declare we're good to open things up to more apocalypse. On Monday, sounding seven years old, he tweeted, "For theHe repeated the (false) claim in a wildly unhinged rally/briefing . Because he clearly still hasn't read the Constitution - shocker - and because at this point they are well and truly done with his murderous incompetence, multiple governors responded to his claim with a middle finger and their own damn plans. Six northeast states - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island - have jointly announced a regional task force led by New York's Andrew Cuomo to shape their own economic strategy going forward. As the coronavirus crisis starts to ebb, each state will contribute three representatives - the state's top health official, top economic development official, and governor’s chief of staff; those 18 members, said Cuomo, will devise a plan to reopen the economy "driven by data and experts, not opinion and politics." The same day, governors of three western states - California, Oregon and Washington - announced a joint pact in the same spirit . "Yes. They do still exist. Hang in.