Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

no windows, so this is safer

 

Wait. Which Christmas movie was that?

 

Here Dumps Santa Claus

 

Rural folks often have to drive several miles to the nearest grocery store. The ranchers who live down the road from our hunting property have a 27 mile drive to the nearest store. Heck, I live in a city of 100,000 and the nearest one is 3 miles from my house.

Add in planting season for farmers and blue collar folks still having to work and it's easy to see why the South isn't staying the fuck home as much as urbanites.

 

Thank you.

 

Talking, breathing may spread it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/health/aerosol-coronavirus-spread-white-house-letter/index.html

 

There's no "may" about it.

A choir decided to go ahead with rehearsal. Now dozens of members have COVID-19 and two are dead

Further proof, from a fascinating story about the ocean being a big polluter!

Coronavirus at beaches? Surfers, swimmers should stay away, scientist says

 

I get it, but those things are true in Arizona and California and Nebraska and New Mexico and Ohio and the Dakotas, too.

And I understand the need to work.

But the general disregard for any kind of sequestration or quarantine in these southern states is also a function of magical thinking, dithering governors and mixed federal messages about the virus.

As Alma rightly pointed out, as bad as things will get in the cities, wait til it rolls through the countryside.

And folks disregarding common-sense restrictions will only make it worse.

 

This really is a war we're in.

Some patients in cardiac arrest may not be brought to hospitals for medical help, memo says

 

Paging @tapintoamerica

 

I agree with that @Azrael. I've got my Southern defensiveness up thanks to seeing so many people bashing the region over this.

The data nerd in me is enjoying looking at this info scraped from cell phone location data ... COVID-19 Mobility Insights - Cuebiq

What's interesting about my county is the average daily movement plummets on the weekend. We average 3.3 miles during the week, but then drop to 1.5-ish on the weekends.

 

Oh.