I’d expect to see similar outbreaks in every major metro hub eventually. So if Dallas, Denver, KC, Twin Cites etc are just now seeing a few hundred, in a couple of weeks they look like LA. NYC is a different animal as people are literally stacked in top of one another. Farther west you go at least you get some real estate. We’ll see numbers grow till we hit late spring. Unless we quarantine entire areas like China, which we can’t legally do with declaring martial law.... we’re not a communist society yet. It’s gonna get ugly, and no-one could have stopped it. Time we quit this blame game snd start trying to survive.
In addition to that we need to make sure that there are some pieces for the survivors to pick up. We're going full Mad Max if the current restrictions are employed until June. They have to devise a plan which addresses location by location, take the lumps the best we can in the hot spots, and try to keep things in some context and perspective. This goes total run around with our hair on fire decision making and the whole country goes down the drain, and right quick.
I would assume if they all went shelter in place the last week or so they should not reach what NYC and Louisiana are going through. Louisiana had Spring Break and Mardi Gras and NY is millions of people on top of each so quite the petri dish. Dallas and KC for example are shutdown past 10-14 days so they should see a much smaller hump. Today Virginia announced stay at home order until JUNE 10??? WTF.....I would say THAT is excessive despite the seriousness of the situation.
Saw Virginia. Also Vermont has closed all hotels B&B’s, said if you don't live here don’t come here. I think Maine just did the same. That’s their tourism industry. I hope you’re right, a little space and hopefully a little warm weather will slow this thing down. But last week went into town and couldn’t tell things were really any different. Drove past Wallyworld, Lowes, parking lots full???? Folks if you haven’t horded enough by now it’s too late.
Is this a tweet he wrote about himself? If so, that is over the top in a way which is difficult to comprehend. The dude does himself no favors
It’s hard for me to give the average Joe the benefit of the doubt. When things are bad, survival kicks in and you want out, out of the infection zone. Governor’s can issue shelter in place, but how much teeth do they really have? They can ban all congregations, large snd small groups, those who wont isolate, issue fines, arrest those who congregate. But how do you keep people in an area when they want out? I remember Como talking about cities/burrow’s issuing quarantine. Said it wouldn’t work unless the whole state was together as (his example) if you issue a shelter in place for the Queens, everyone there would just go stay with family in the Bronx or something to that effect, my NYC geography is nadda. So we’re seeing that on a state level now, people are trying to leave hotspots and Governor’s in adjoining states are trying to stop them at the borders. Don’t think that’s entirely legal but hey, I’d rather protect my constituents and battle it out legally later. If you want to really stop this in it’s tracks you’re going to have to declare martial law and lock it down with the military. In my view anything short of that and you’re letting this thing naturally run it’s course and hoping for a summer reprieve and time to find the medical means to combat it.