Leading by Example

This afternoon, our governor finally extended the stay-at-home order to the rest of the counties in our state, restricting the entire state to only essential/life-sustaining activities. The stay-at-home order isn't really that strict, though. Lots of people are still getting together, maybe spacing their chairs out a little more. Stores and other services get crowded. And I just saw a photo tweeted by our county's department of public safety, showing their leadership team reviewing their emergency response plans - they don't look sufficiently distanced! (Several people have already called them out for it on Twitter - one asked if they were all isolating together indefinitely.)

Tweeted by county Dept of Public Safety 4/1/2020

I was looking at that COVID Act Now site again today, and not only were our state's restrictions less stringent than the rest of the region, it put us at hospital overload by April 24, if shelter in place wasn't implemented by April 9-14. Maybe the governor was checking the same thing. For states that have already moved to shelter in place orders, the site gives predictions for what will happen with poor compliance vs. strict compliance. The best plans in the world will be useless if nobody follows them...

The sun is out today for the first time since last week! 🌞 My husband and I went for a nice lunchtime walk around the neighborhood. I should start keeping track of the streets we've covered - by the end of this thing, we may have walked every foot of sidewalk on our side of town.