Whitmer is right, the stay-at-home order is working as cases and deaths plummet

[marmar]

(Detroit Metro Times) For seven straight weeks, Michigan has been under a stay-at-home order to combat the coronavirus.

By all measures, it has worked.

The number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths has fallen for three consecutive weeks. For 26 straight days, the number of coronavirus-related hospitalizations has declined. And over the past 20 days, number of patients on a ventilator has been cut in half.

Michigan is also getting closer to its goal of administering 15,000 tests a day. In the past week, the state averaged 11,500 tests per day, compared to an average of 5,700 a day in April. ........(more)

https://m.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/05/12/whitmer-is-right-the-stay-at-home-order-is-working-as-cases-and-deaths-plummet

[Wounded Bear]

1. It has worked everywhere it has been implemented...

I mean, after all you don't need science to tell you that with a communicable disease attacking us, perhaps we shouldn't hang out in large groups.

[Igel]

4. It hasn't worked in some places in Texas.

Those are counties where there were no hospitalizations or deaths.

And there's evidence that it worked before it was imposed, which is a bit of weirdness that is really convenient to say at times and really awkward to admit at others.

[Takket]

2. Michigan should be lauded as a success story........

but the media is only focused on "warnings" about other states opening up too quickly. meanwhile whitmer ha been in the crosshairs for the last month of the media not for the fantastic job she has done saving lives, expanding testing, and keeping us safe, but to answer constant questions from the media about the "protesters" (literally a few hundred people out of ten million)

[marmar]

3. And quite a few of the protesters were from out of state.

[safeinOhio]

5. Her approval

numbers are going up.

[MichMan]

6. 80 % of all the cases are in the three counties surrounding Detroit

The vast majority of the remainder of the state has had relatively few cases in comparison.

People accepted the stay at home directive pretty well, but many of her other orders didn't make a lot of sense. While some of those may be a little trivial in the grand scheme of things, it actually undermined acceptance of the ones that made sense.

A lot of people aren't understanding why Michigan has 4 times the number of cases of neighboring states like Ohio

[marmar]

7. Ohio has 25,000 coronavirus and is trending up....

....Michigan 48,000 (so clearly not 4×) and is trending down. And Ohio doesn't have a globally connected airport like DTW.

[MichMan]

8. 2x number of posittives & 3x the deaths however

Both Columbus and Cincinnati have International airports too.

[marmar]

11. But those airports are not connected to

... Asia, and probably have only 1 or 2 flights to Europe. DTW is connected nonstop to Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Nagoya, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Munich, Rome, Amman and a bunch of places in Mexico and the Caribbean. It's not even close.

[MichMan]

12. What airports do all the Japanese auto executives for Honda and Toyota fly in to?

Do they have to first fly into Detroit and then drive to Marysville, Ohio and Georgetown Ky. ?

Both of the airports I mentioned have frequent flights to and from Tokyo.

[marmar]

13. No they don't. Never have.

Even when Cincinnati was a Delta hub, which it's not anymore, it never had direct service to anywhere in Asia. Neither did Cleveland when it was a minor United hub. Trust me, I know aviation.

[MichMan]

16. Ok, didn't realize infectious diseases were blocked when transferring from one airplane to another

[mainer]

17. Virus spread from NYC. Not from Asia

Based on genetic analysis, it appears the virus that infected most of the US came from Europe, via NYC. Not from Japanese executives flying in from Tokyo.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html

[madinmaryland]

20. If they have a flight to Toronto, they can call it an international airport.

[roamer65]

10. The automotive industry.

A plethora of flights to and from China, due to the automotive industry. That’s why MI got hit hard sooner.

[mainer]

18. Majority of midwest infections came via NYC, originating in Europe

Not Asia.

Look at the genetic analysis of midwest samples.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/us/new-york-city-coronavirus-outbreak.html

Only when you get to the west coast (esp. Washington state) do you see a majority of US infections spread via Asia.

[roamer65]

19. There are a ton of flights there 2.

Where ever there is an international airport, the 12 monkeys scenario came true.

[marmar]

21. That's what's known now....

.... I suspect when they do more tracing and re-examining earlier cases, especially in Detroit because it's a big international hub for Delta, they'll find direct tracing to Asia and Europe.

[CTyankee]

9. Biden should get her as his VP but MI would not be happy to let her go I am sure!

Does she have a Lt. governor who would step in and continue her best practices?

God bless the people of MI, and god bless and save us all from Trump in November! (we need an emoji for praying hands).

[roamer65]

14. Yes. Lt Gov Garlin Gilchrist II.

He would be our first African American governor!

[CTyankee]

15. OK, Michigan!

That is good to hear, no matter what! First African American governor!!!