Even among very old, most infected with COVID-19 show no symptoms for several days.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85657

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About half of residents in a long-term care skilled nursing facility in Washington state had no symptoms of COVID-19 coronavirus infection when they initially tested positive, researchers found.

Following a positive test in a healthcare worker,
facility-wide symptom assessments and testing for 76 residents found that
23 were positive for COVID-19,
and 13 of these residents were asymptomatic.

A week later, 10 of those 13 developed symptoms,
reported Anne Kimball, MD, of the CDC

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IF I EDIT THIS THREAD ONE MORE TIME BECAUSE OF POLITICS THE THREAD IS GONE ALONG WITH THE OFFENDING MEMBERS!

jsta announced ... boating DISTANCING !

FIFTY FEET apart ..

HITTIN this area hard ....

Occupancy rate in motels and hotels in this area last year ? .. 93%

Now ? .... 5-8%

Remember when car following distance was based on distance, like 1 car length for every 10mph, and then they changed to a "3? second rule" ( which I still believe is idiotic)?

Anyway, if the virus remains virulent for 4 hours when airborne, shouldn't the distance rule be, the distance air travels in the ambient wind conditions in say 4 hours?

Its "feel good distance theater for the masses" anyway.

Our public health officer stated no boating. Bicycling only and not in any city or state park as they are closed.
So biking on public roads only. Tomorrow morning I can see lots of cars with bike racks cramming into public parking lots and people with and without helmets riding along side cars. While at the same time lakes and reservoirs could easily be utilized by kayakers and canoers. Oh well, seems my early in this post refrence to the albinos emerging may not be too far off. Wait a minute, we need our vitamin deeeeee

It's that way everywhere. Hotels are empty. Food businesses around here are limited to carryout or delivery only, down 75-90%, not worth opening. Interstate reminds me of the 70s, could drag race on it again so few cars. Looking at plane tickets, cheep. It will take a lot to get it all rolling again.

To HAVE stopped (or now STOP now) this from TRAVELING from state-to-state across the entire US; would mean stopping PEOPLE from TRAVELING around to US. Which hasn't happened to date, best I see. NY'ers fleeing out, to who knows where. Mardi-Gras visitors going home, Spring-Breakers', Oversea citizens returning, etc, etc. Welcome to the good-ole USofA, where we can move around freely regardless.



I hate when they compare our actions/results with say S.Korea. 350M vs 50M pop. And smaller then say Texas.

But some restaurants were doing decent until the FL gov shut them down ...,

Both applebees and Outback gave distancing NEW MEANING .... two empty seats at the bar and AT LEAST one table distance OR BETTER in the dining area.

There has to be a way to do this !

Health depts. are shutting things down till april 30 at least here, people cancelled all big parties and weddings 2 weeks ago, better safe than sorry. It will work out just going to hurt for a while.

They shut our county down today on about 10hr notice... decided Fri morning to shut it down at 8pm
Apparently because we went from 11 cases last week to 15 this week....

The result of this wonderful decision...
After days of few people out and about, and store shelves finally beginning to be restocked. (still no TP)
Today's closing order brought EVERYONE out to the stores...

It was like Black Friday at Lowes & Home Depot.... parking lots 100% filled with cars waiting in the lanes.
Glad I didn't need anything there!

Good job with that no warning decision...

I don't believe the issue is the distance. Shoes walk in credit cards get dropped, Picked up, Go home, shoes walk around house. Cat walks on floor and jumps on counter
Think about all the nuances that occur in a restaurant. How often is that towel that wipes down the counter and tables rotated out. Ever see a server hold a glass with fingers gripping the top edge of a glass after they just wiped down the table and handed out the menus that were last washed? Where do we put our silverware after placing the napkin on our lap? How many of us make it a point of washing hands after you place order? By all means toss the paper towel after washing hands and then using it to open the restroom door.
Nurses game me all sorts of literature to read about germ transference in public places and at home prior to stem cell transplant. There are innumerable means germs get to our orifices from some other persons. Oh, make sure wife wipes down her purse after she puts it where baby butts go while shopping. Hopefully prior to when sh drops it on the counter with the grocery bags.
Be super smart people!

Good points ALL ...

But IF these health departments were REALLY SERIOUS... because of all these potential sloppy actions .....the grocery stores should be closed tooooo !

... restaurants and so called non essential stores .... closed until April 30th ?

People need to eat

Says the most(?) obese nation on the planet.

One of the many reasons you are not in charge.

I dont give a damn what you buy but people need food to survive

Yep......in in reality....OTHER people need food so that WE can survive!!! The second food becomes a battle is when we are in pure chaos with people killing (literally) each other on a massive scale.

Air
Water
Food.

Restrict any of these and things get bad, REAL BAD, RIGHT NOW.

Yes, of course we need food to eat.

But reducing the trips to the grocery store would certainly help, maybe like you can only go once a week, based on your tag number, house number, birthday or something else fair to all.

Still don't see why they don't at least only open alternating check out counter lanes.

That’s a real slippery slope. PANIC. UNHEARD OF HOARDING, BLACKMARKET FOOD SALES.

Inciting panic right now would be a horrific NEXT STEP. Pray we don’t go there.

The irrational TP shortage is a prime example of how ‘delicate’ pun intended, this really is.