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Our county now enforces social distancing with penalties of $1000 fine or jail time. The county police are going to stores & parks and announcing it over megaphone in parking lots. And yet, I still see people out in groups and people shopping with their partners. So, I suspect there will be tickets given and lots of angry citizens.I do wonder how they'll practice social distancing in jail.Edit:I do agree with the new policy. Our county hospitals are not big enough to deal with a large number of sick people and the neighboring counties have their own to deal with. Some people just don't understand how dangerous a situation they could be in if they need hospital care.
Quote from: brightberry on April 02, 2020, 11:48:46 AMOur county now enforces social distancing with penalties of $1000 fine or jail time. The county police are going to stores & parks and announcing it over megaphone in parking lots. And yet, I still see people out in groups and people shopping with their partners. So, I suspect there will be tickets given and lots of angry citizens.I do wonder how they'll practice social distancing in jail.Edit:I do agree with the new policy. Our county hospitals are not big enough to deal with a large number of sick people and the neighboring counties have their own to deal with. Some people just don't understand how dangerous a situation they could be in if they need hospital care.People who live together are still allowed to go out together. If I see a group of less than 5 I usually assume they must live together. It's bigger groups that are obviously not living together that need to be stopped.
Someone has rewritten "Go to the Distance" from Disney's Hercules as "I Will Social Distance"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQDZqNmcaqc Ponyfan
Even worse are my parents who should know better. They are in their late 60s and my dad has 2 "underlying health conditions" that could impact his mortality rate. And when I call, my mom says they are being good and staying isolated- but then they just texted me how they got bored and went to Costco and they are remarking on the long lines???? JUST this last weekend my dad went out on a motorcycle-riding trip with his buddies. My Mom and dad say "oh it's great because they are not socializing just riding around." But what about when they talk ? I know my dad and the friends he is hanging out with and I promise you they are NOT staying 6' apart from each other. It drives me bonkers.
Gov. DeSantis finally issued a stay-at-home order but only for SE Florida (Miami and area). Meanwhile, those counties that didn't have any cases that he used as an excuse to not lockdown the state are slowly getting infected. Great foresight and all that There are two quarantined cruise ships docked somewhere on the east coast.Case numbers as of this morning are 9,585 and 163 deaths. Over 1200 people hospitalized. I can't find recovery info anywhere, just test results. There've been 82,000 negative tests. They are only testing people with symptoms, so that's a whole lotta people with regular flu or something else not Covid-19 though. My dad, sister and niece continue to ignore staying at home. None of them are sick but I feel it's only a matter of time.
The University of Washington has produced a data model that predicts the expected peak of the coronavirus by state:http://covid19.healthdata.org/projectionsObviously this isn't set in stone, it's a model, etc, but it's based on the data that has been gathered state by state, and the measures each state has taken, up to this point in time.