Modified...

Texas, a salon owner was arrested earlier this month for ignoring cease and desist orders. Shelley Luther, who violated a stay-at-home order by keeping her Dallas-area salon open, was sentenced to jail time.

A few days later, Texas Governor Greg Abbott modified his COVID-19 executive orders, effectively setting Luther free.

Similar incidents have occurred in other states, and groups of demonstrators have gathered in Michigan, North Carolina, Colorado and elsewhere to protest stay-a-home orders. 

Many states have now begun loosening stay-at-home orders and opening up, including parts of New York, which will open by region and in phases depending on health conditions in each region.

Linder...

Democratic congressman from Nevada admitted that he was involved in “a previous relationship outside of my marriage.”

U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford – a married man with three children who represents the state’s 4th Congressional District -- acknowledged the affair after a former intern to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid revealed she is “Love Jones,” the focus of a podcast series called “Mistress for Congress.”

The  woman’s real name is Gabriela Linder and she told the Review-Journal that she and the congressman were engaged in an off-and-on sexual relationship between 2009 and 2019.

When they first met, she was 21 and Horsford was the 36-year-old majority leader of the Nevada state Senate.  She said she wants her story to be a warning for other young women about relationships with older men in positions of power.

Choices choices, Happens everywhere.

Trap...

New York is the epicenter of the coronavirus in the United States, with far more cases than many entire countries. Positive tests in the state made up a quarter of those in the whole U.S. , with more than 335,000 cases. The death from the COvid 19 is more than 26,000 with approximatley significant unknown death to be added.

There have been significantly more cases in New York City than other metropolises around the world, such as London, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo.

The number of confirmed cases in Shanghai, nine hours' drive from Wuhan, the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak, is only in triple digits.

New York declared a state of emergency early on March 7, a week after the state's first reported case – a woman who traveled from Iran. 

NYS. politicians gave mixed messages to the public, initially suggesting the outbreak would be readily contained, until the city was overwhelmed with the virus. The state's stay-at-home order came on March 20, and went into effect two days later.

Those who new, fled the city, and the rest became entrapped in a city that is built on top of each other.

Fear...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has announced that the state’s stay-at-home order, which had been set to expire Friday, is being extended until June 13.

Morning...

Caught...

One tourist from New York was arrested in Hawaii after he posted beach pictures on Instagram when he was supposed to be in quarantine.

The 23-year-old man was arrested for violating Hawaii's mandatory 14-day quarantine rule and for "unsworn falsification to authority," the Hawaii governor's office said in a statement.

He arrived in O'ahu on Monday and quickly posted numerous pictures of himself on the beach on Instagram. He allegedly used public transportation to get to the many places he was pictured, the statement said.

False...

Nurses...

Exhausted nurses at Major New York’s hospital system say they feel “shafted” and “taken advantage of” after learning the crisis pay that was introduced just four weeks ago amid the hell of the coronavirus pandemic is being suddenly terminated.

The decision to scrap the $250-a-week hazard pay after just four weeks, effective, comes after three other Empire State hospitals, Northwell Health, NewYork-Presbyterian and NYU Langone, paid front-line staff lump-sum bonuses of at least $2,500.

“With the reduction in COVID-19 patient volumes to approximately one-third of our peak, we will be ending crisis pay for those receiving it effective May 16,” the memo read.

There is another crisis taking place as we speak, slow business. Just a thought.

Storage...

One trader bought 250,000 barrels of oil and secured a rare payout at a time when oil prices turned negative, causing jitters in markets and leaving most other traders scrambling to find storage options across both sides of the Atlantic, Bloomberg reported.

But for BB Energy, a London-based trading house, the historic oil market crash was golden opportunity owed to its competitive advantage of having storage capacity over other firms. 

US oil prices hit an all-time low of -$37.63 on April 20 due to an extreme shortage in storage options for oil, meaning most traders apart from BB Energy had to effectively pay traders to take the oil off their hands. 

It remains unknown whether BB Energy is still holding on to the barrels it bought and how much the trading-house paid (or indeed was paid) for them as well as how much it made.

Trend...

A top adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign warned in a memo on Friday that former Vice President Joe Biden could lose the election in November because "a significant portion" of Sanders's supporters are "currently unsupportive and unenthusiastic" about his candidacy.

The memo, written by Jeff Weaver, who recently launched the America's Promise PAC aimed at turning out progressives for Biden, said the presumptive Democratic nominee faces a "clear and dangerous trend" that could block his path to the White House if he does not address his shortcoming with Latinos, working-class voters and young people.