I don't disagree about adapting. I also don't disagree that a business is going to do less revenue now vs. January regardless of government orders.
Are you talking about the requirement to stay home and quarantine if you test positive? There is definitely a similarity there, but in both cases the person presents a threat to society at large by being out of their home so they are “detained”. I think there were stories of people being arrested or at least physically prevented from being in public who tested positive. The most recent one was a couple who tested positive and then snuck on a plane.
I don't believe they attempted to enforce it. Probably because they knew it wouldn't hold up in court.
See my post about Broward county regarding the house arrest analogy.
Exactly. All of these stay at home statements have to be a recommendation, not a physical order. The people releasing these need to be very careful of how they word these things.
It’s still not remotely close. Under house arrest you have an ankle bracelet that alerts authorities if you leave your home. You literally can’t go anywhere without permission. Asking people to not go out except for essential reasons isn‘t the same thing. They closed purely non-essential businesses but made no effort to stop anyone from doing non-essential shopping at Target or Walmart or Home Depot. You could also drive to the McDonalds drive thru for food or get a Starbucks coffee at the drive thru. There was no attempt by police to arrest people for stepping out of their home.
Typically that’s the rule anyways during take-off and landing.
I see it as no different than when Indiana counties restrict travel when we have bad road conditions. It can be anything from just "advisory" where travel is okay to "emergency" only. I haven't heard of people complaining about it on something that happens yearly.
That's actually not a bad analogy, as both are designed to promote public safety. I guess people should complain about the snow now.
Unfortunately some fires need to be extinguished...they don’t burn out if you ignore them.*sigh* Dumpster fire in the US, dumpster fire in the thread this week. Anyway...
I was able to read this article on my phone, but run into the paywall on my laptop. Study from South Korea about a student with no clear exposure who came down with COVID (no positives in her community for 2 months). Via extensive contact tracing and using cell phone data mapping, they identified the infection as occurring in a restaurant. An out-of-town visitor infected 3 people who were sitting "down wind" of the flow from the air conditioner. The student was sitting 20 feet away and only overlapped the infectious person for 5 minutes. They concluded that the air circulation patterns in the restaurant, the direction the affected diners were facing created a valley of wind, in which the people on a specific line were infected. A reminder that mitigation is not a complete elimination of risk and given the right circumstances spread can happen.
Infected after 5 minutes, from 20 feet away: South Korea study shows coronavirus' spread indoors
A South Korean study raises concerns that six feet of social distance may not be far enough to keep people safe from the coronavirus.www.latimes.com
Looks like Florida’s thanksgiving rush has begun
Oh, oceanbreeze. Come sit socially distanced by me and we'll drink the pain away.
Or barrier islands closing down during hurricanes.
I complain about snow but for some reason "Florida vacation home for my mental health" doesn't qualify for health insurance
My FIL got sick of leaving during hurricanes so he just got hurricane shutters and a backup generator and just stays put. He is just on the inland side of the barrier island so he is never fully cut off. They do regularly close the bridge when a hurricane approaches.
Hurricanes and bad weather conditions only last from hours to a few days not a year or more.
