Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State

Cronus eating his children -- Goya A Hartford paper points out the brutal irony: Connecticut has averaged 366 new cases a day over the past week or about 10.3 per 100,000 residents, just above the threshold at which states are added to the travel advisory. The advisory, which currently includes 38 states and territories, is updated each Tuesday in conjunction with New York and New Jersey. It requires travelers arriving from those states to either produce a negative coronavirus test result or quarantine for 14 days... Lamont said Thursday he’s considering a dramatic overhaul to the advisory, saying “It’d be a little ironic if we were on our own quarantine list.” Connecticut’s list of quarantined states has grown by leaps and bounds, very likely because the parameters initially were set too low. The gods of irony will not be mocked. Cronus is now eating his own children. It is nearly impossible to determine definitively who set the parameters, but we do know that Governor Ned La...