Observations about the virus and our response

Indiana currently has 7 deaths and a few hundred confirmed cases.   Both climbing.

Random observations about the response:   

- Restaurants and Bars have been shuttered.    Chick-Fil-A has cars lined up at the drive through going all the way around the store.

- I drove by the local strip mall district today only to see the parking lots of Home Depot, Best Buy, Michaels, and Home Goods packed just like any other weekend.   Not too much social distancing going on there

- My furnace actually broke today and the store selling the part to fix it was open - but they made me wait in my car while a clerk went into the shop to pick up the part.

- Grocery stores continue to be crazy busy - and usually emptied out by 8pm each day.

- My work has required everyone to work from home which (fortunately) is an option for our business where everything is done on the phone and/or PC.

-  Talking to my circle of friends some seem to take the prescribed social distancing seriously while others dont at all

My conclusion:    I sure hope we are doing enough to contain this virus.  I'm worried we collectively aren't.    I also think there is a massive sense of false security felt by people outside the senior citizen population.   Almost half of the hospitalized victims are not in that demographic and many of them are suffering permanent lung damage even if they survive.  Thats a detail that I think has not been reported strongly enough.

I hope everyone here stays safe and is following the social distancing guidelines.   

Lots of MAGAs to the south of you. Most of them still think it is a hoax or a conspiracy led by George Soros to get Trump and they act accordingly. They have no concept of personal space, will walk into a building coughing and will spit big wads of chew on the floors, on the sidewalks and into water fountains. In other words, it is the same old same old for them. 

I saw a guy at the C-store today. The dude touched every size of drink cup in the dispensers. He even took one out, looked at and then shoved it back into the dispenser opting for a different size at the last minute.  From there he proceeded to fondle 4-5 cup lids before he got one out. 

Fortunately, there's a Darwinian aspect to all this. See my recent post.

Living among Trumpers has always been repulsive, but now, it's actively dangerous. Flee to a liberal area!

(This is where some idiot Trumper chimes in and says that conservative North Dakota has fewer cases than liberal California, so obviously, the coronavirus is liberal.)

 One of the dumbest things posted here- " Flee to a liberal area!"- In case you havn't noticed, the areas of the U.S. with the most virus cases are located in, you guessed it, in LIBERAL areas.

Ha ha ha ha ha! That didn't take long!

Mark, we have that writ large in the Pacific Northwest. The governors of Washington and Oregon shut down public gatherings more than a week ago, and this weekend issued an order for everyone to stay inside except for essentials.

Meanwhile, the governor of Idaho held a press conference and said he wasn't going to impose restrictions of any kind, because the coronavirus isn't anything to worry about.

Idaho is one of the most conservative states in the US. Washington and Oregon are among the most liberal. All three states have a considerable and rapidly rising number of cases. We can see a sharp contrast in how liberal and conservative states are addressing the crisis.

Just where does Idaho rank?-20

Would the respective populations of those states have something to do with that? Think hard!

Would the degree to which a state's population was concentrated or dispersed (as in, urban or rural) have something to do with that? Think harder!

Jusr reporting the provable facts as of today @ 1:20 pm.

What's the weather like in American Samoa ?