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I live in a town of 10,000. You definitely don't see the crowds out that you used to. Our governor has done a great job of keeping on top of what's going on. Starting tomorrow at 5 PM most stores (shoes, clothing, jewelry, furniture, electronics, etc.) will be shut down until further notice. All restaurants are take out, meaning they meet you outside the door with your order, or delivery. All hair salons, nail salons, barber shops are closed. I still make my Walmart trips when we need something and I've been fishing at a state park about 30 miles away I have several friends who are even afraid to go sit on their carport for fresh air, like all the officials say you should do. There's a lot of paranoia in small towns. If everybody still had even a little bit of common sense, we could handle this.
Our office in Bangor will be closed until further notice. This is not a company decision. The Bangor City Council is a bunch of nervous Nellies who have no trust and confidence in American citizens.
We can still conduct our business of listing and selling. I do not freak out. I flew 556 missions in helicopter gun ships in Vietnam. Every time we took off there were people who wanted to blow us out of the sky. (We were not very high up in the sky. Sometimes we came back with rice on our skids.) After one “three day zoo” one of our pilots sat on the floor in the corner and cried. That’s OK. We knew people in the boats that had been killed. The next day, that pilot flew again.
I was the tallest pilot at our location. I wrote with a grease pencil on the plexiglas at the top of our 7 foot square map board;
“Our aim is to be as flexible as possible without going completely limp.” It was still there when I left.
Our office in Bangor will be closed until further notice. This is not a company decision. The Bangor City Council is a bunch of nervous Nellies who have no trust and confidence in American citizens.
We can still conduct our business of listing and selling. I do not freak out. I flew 556 missions in helicopter gun ships in Vietnam. Every time we took off there were people who wanted to blow us out of the sky. (We were not very high up in the sky. Sometimes we came back with rice on our skids.) After one “three day zoo” one of our pilots sat on the floor in the corner and cried. That’s OK. We knew people in the boats that had been killed. The next day, that pilot flew again.
I was the tallest pilot at our location. I wrote with a grease pencil on the plexiglas at the top of our 7 foot square map board;
“Our aim is to be as flexible as possible without going completely limp.” It was still there when I left.
The Spanish flu killed more people than WW1. I assure you the Coronavirus isn't intimated by your war stories.
I'd say calling a city council "nervous nellies" for enforcing a mandatory quarantine is not taking it seriously.
There are times when hysterical media and politicians have made a complete mess of things. Consider the mess they made of Three-Mile-Island, surely you are old enough to remember that nothing event that was blown out of proportion so badly that even today it still sits there rusting in place.
Back to the OP, of course I feel safer out here than I would living in the city. I live where I can't see any neighbors so I'm not real afraid of accidental contacts with infected people out here, the way I would if I had to pass by them in narrow hallways in an apartment or walking on the street. We only have to decontaminate after going to *town* to get supplies. Hanging around the farm, things feel pretty normal.
My freezers are full, we have all the seeds we need for Spring planting,
Maple flow is nearly done, and my radiation treatments [for my cancer] are over.
If we all avoid going into town we will be fine.
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