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In reply to the discussion: Keep up the Isolating. Really. [View all]Warpy
(111,227 posts)We're a social and tactile species. Those of us who can cope with being hermits are few and far between.
Yes, they'll spread the virus around and some of them will die. However, isolation was never a long term strategy, it was a short term one to buy time to ramp up supplies and get organized and maybe even come up with a viable treatment or two. The Feds and the GOP states wasted that time.
What remains to be seen is whether states like mine, where there is a mandatory mask in public order in place, fare much better than those states where people just rush back to normal.
Retail opened yesterday and stores reported very little traffic, probably because savings have run out and nobody's got money for anything but food and bills, so expect some places to open and then shutter for good.
The shutdown of everything but groceries, gas stations, and a few other essential businesses here lasted 52 days. It obviously worked here in the city, where cases are declining, but people have pretty much reached their limit. The big problem in this state is the epidemic among the Navajos and the rural counties the rez borders.