Amid some of the most restrictive lockdowns in the entire nation, California is suffering an explosion of coronavirus cases. Los Angeles County records a new coronavirus death every eight minutes, but a new case every six seconds, a mathematical combination that means the worst is yet to come.

And it’s not just that the pandemic is worsening in spite of Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s economically ruinous regulations. The surge might actually be happening because of them.

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