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When folks from Wayne County, or some other hot spot, head up to their cottages in tiny lake towns to the north - where there are VERY limited medical resources - and start spreading the virus there, how do you suppose that works out for that small community?
The same thing would apply to any sort of vacation/resort town where the population swells dramatically between "in-season" and the rest of the year. The medical resources aren't scaled to fit the peak, they're sized for the mean.
Case in point. Truckee CA, not all that far from where I am in NV is now a hotspot. The Tahoe/Truckee area actually. Because all the Bay Area types ran up there thinking they'd flee to the mountains.
I guess it never occurred to them that towns like Truckee and Tahoe aren't exactly remote cabins in the woods.
Case in point. Truckee CA, not all that far from where I am in NV is now a hotspot. The Tahoe/Truckee area actually. Because all the Bay Area types ran up there thinking they'd flee to the mountains.
I guess it never occurred to them that towns like Truckee and Tahoe aren't exactly remote cabins in the woods.
Bingo.
I wonder how many ICU beds and ventilators there are in Truckee? This isn't rocket surgery as to why government is trying to limit travel.
IT'S. LITERALLY. HOW. THE. VIRUS. SPREADS. IN. A. PANDEMIC.
...This may lead some to think that the social distancing measures are not working. They are.
They may feel futile. They aren’t.
You will feel discouraged. You should.
This is normal in chaos. This is the normal epidemic trajectory. Stay calm.
The enemy we are facing is very good at what it does; we are not failing. We need everyone to hold the line as the epidemic inevitably gets worse.
This is not an opinion. This is the unforgiving math of epidemics for which I and my colleagues have dedicated our lives to understanding with great nuance, and this disease is no exception...
I dont think we are ready for that yet, give it a couple more months and I think they will be trying to re open places, but I think it will be SLOW going, many people are not going to trust getting close to people again in social settings..
If people want to isolate themselves, I suppose they can. Just don't force it on others.
Maybe because those countries are fine with being completely locked down. For better or worse, Americans are not too fond of it
My son in the Greater Manila Area has to get a pass from his Barangay Captain and one member of the family is allowed to the market on Wednesday and Saturday. And that is a nation with a much lower percentage of private vehicles, so we are not talking about a Costco load up when they are allowed out of lock down.
of course there'd be more than 20 cars in the parking lot. They all drive there separately as well.
It was Channel 17, Raleigh news, but can't find the video today. Morning news. I'd wear a mask out right now to any place where people could be, that's me though. If people don't have one, they can use a bandanna or something like that.
If people want to isolate themselves, I suppose they can. Just don't force it on others.
The state govts cannot really take that chance, if people start getting infected after re opening, it will all fall on them. Originally I was thinking this would last about 6-8 months, but now Im thinking it may last until a vaccine is available.
The USA needs to bring all this stuff back to only being owned by us, not foreign countries.
So where are the US investors when it was for sale? Why don't they build a competing company? But their money where their mouth is.
You know and I know it won't happen.
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