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I have relatives nearby. If the lockdown order is only for the city, there may be things available out of the city. Specifically, I do a lot of my shopping out of the city. I've been waiting for the hysteria to calm down so I can get out and stock up. I'll do that.
From what I heard NYC will be the only shelter in place ...for now at least.....but that all non essential businesses will be closed in the tri state area.
Grocery stores, pharmacies .etc in the city will remain open and you will be able to go out and shop for essentials.
They probably won't stop you from leaving the city but they might stop you from getting back in.
If this comes down as planned it will be with the full approval and help of the Federal Government.
I have relatives nearby. If the lockdown order is only for the city, there may be things available out of the city. Specifically, I do a lot of my shopping out of the city. I've been waiting for the hysteria to calm down so I can get out and stock up. I'll do that.
If they close the bridges we gotta riot! Burn Gracie Mansion and City Hall down to the ground! WE MUST RISE UP! Just don't cough on each other.
I’d comply mostly, but I’d still go on walks. Up here in Hamilton Heights we have a lot of parks and quiet tree lined streets, so I wouldn’t be near anyone.
Times certainly have changed. I don’t believe that in the 1960s an entire city could be ordered to stay in home detention without massive disobedience and protests.
I don't have any problem complying, especially if it's similar to San Francisco's shelter in place order. Here is a FAQ about theirs:
Can I still go outside for essentials, exercise and fresh air? (This is for San Francisco)
Yes. People will still be able to leave their homes to handle essential business in limited circumstances — like buying groceries or picking up medicine — and to get fresh air. But when people do need to leave their homes, health officials are requiring they maintain at least six feet from other individuals and that they wash their hands for at least 20 seconds as often as possible.They’re also calling on people to cover their coughs and sneezes and to avoid shaking hands.
That doesn't sound too bad. It's still ongoing, but Italy's cited as an example of a country that really bungled their early response to it, but cracked down hard on it later, and are at 2,503 deaths so far out of a population of 60 million or so. They had their first documented case on January 31st and started locking down Lombardy on February 21st and then the rest of the nation on March 9th when it started being clear their healthcare system was being overwhelmed.
I read somewhere it's supposed to get better as it gets warmer--didn't find the original source where I read it, but here's a paper on coronavirus survival times on surfaces in general.
the guy on the joe rogan show said the viral count in an infected person is so astronomical that the primary method of transmission is breathing the same air, so remains to be seen how surface viruses will affect anything
Times certainly have changed. I don’t believe that in the 1960s an entire city could be ordered to stay in home detention without massive disobedience and protests.
In the 1940s people were happy to let their neighbors be shipped off to concentration camps
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