Yesterday our governor added a few more counties to the "yellow" phase of our red/yellow/green system. More of the ones in the corner where nobody lives 😂 For the rest of us, he extended our stay-at-home order until June 4th.
I'm seeing more and more people say we can't live like this, we need to get the government officials making these decisions out of power, etc. And I know people who were strongly adhering to the orders before are now slipping and starting to bend the rules - visiting a grandparent, seeing a friend, just going to the store more than is necessary... This just makes me even more sure that we're going to be stuck in a high-level plateau, not curving down as we should. If we couldn't even curve down before, how are we going to do it now that people are getting frustrated and ignoring the rules?
I've also been seeing some interesting graphs about the nationwide numbers. I mentioned
before that infections in the US had been holding steady over the past month, while they decreased in other countries. Turns out, it's because there were so many in the NYC area. While those cases were going down due to the measures they were taking, they were going up in the rest of the country, and the result is a general leveling.
It's just so frustrating ... I just keep wishing we'd done the really hard thing earlier, and gotten it over with, instead of being so lax about it. Because people definitely aren't going to go for that now, but unless there's some major treatment or prevention breakthrough, I feel like it's too late not to...
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