I'm one of the people who is responsible for keeping one of the local CAP airplanes mission-ready in case any emergency-services missions come up. This requires me to drive across Santa Clara Valley about twice per month to Reid-Hillview Airport in San Jose. The police use the terminal building there as a place to do paperwork and such, so there are usually a number of police vehicles there. During the stay-home order, I've been putting on my uniform when I go there, and being prepared to explain what I'm doing there and why, but so far, no one has said anything.
They've started closing parking lots at parks and open-space preserves here on The Peninsula.
Here in the City too, but it's hard to close off some of the parking such as along the roads in GG Park and the area by the Legion.
These are arguably kinda silly, but playing devil's advocate here I would argue.... eventually you'll have to stop for gas, which eventually puts you breathing the same air of the person that was standing at that pump just before you, as well as indirect surface contact with the previous potentially dozens of folks that touched it before you. Also, it increases odds of break down or accident, potential necessary contact with tow truck drivers, police, first responders, etc.... Oh, and how about the person that rolls up beside you at a stoplight, sitting 4 ft away sneezing out their window? I've had my car at interstate highway speeds fill up with the stink from some smoker in front of me blowing their smoke out the window. Exchange that smoke for a cough or sneeze....I don't know, is that potential plausible?
Nope. It spreads pretty well via close human to human contact. If it spread well enough that someone coughing out an open car window at highway speed could effectively spread the infection to another person in a different car also going highway speed, no amount of sheltering in place would stop the spread or even slow it down much.
So you're saying it safer to spend even more time in the place where 3x as many accidents happen vs spending some time driving on roads which have no traffic or significantly less traffic than normal. I'm going to have to disagree there.
20 hours a day at home? I want your life. I spend far more time at work than I do at home. That's probably the case with most people.
Some mayor in Italy said they would breakup a graduation party with flamethrower equipped police
This has been my question from the start. I understand the concept of "flattening the curve" in order to keep the medical system from being overwhelmed. But the area under the curve remains the same, so unless there is an effective treatment, or a vaccine, most people will eventually get it, since it seems to be so easily transmitted. It has moved to many parts of the country quicker than I would have thought.
As tacky as it seems (and is), at least you have a better reason not to fly than the rest of us.
If you go to this site and click on one of the states from the drop-down, you'll see solid horizontal lines representing the number of hospital beds, ICU beds, ventilators, etc in that state.
Yeah, I have my doubts about both of those sites' assumptions. But it does effectively illustrate the concept.
Right. I get that concept. It makes sense that the flatter the curve, the better the situation will be. NY's peak is 4/9, but they are way short of normal beds and ICU beds. My state (the one everyone loves to bash) doesn't seem like it's going to have a problem with the number of normal beds or ICU beds, but the peak isn't until April 26. What happens after the peak? I don't see things going back to normal until there is an effective treatment or a vaccine, because there will still be people around with the virus, and the spreading could get started again.
what did ya say about the better Dakota?
Well I suppose that's the hope, that vaccine and/or treatment will come after the peak. I personally don't have much hope for a vaccine that soon, but I think treatment is more likely by virtue of the fact that it doesn't have to be all-or-nothing. Plus, there's the possibility that those that have already had it won't get it again.
I said it’s the middle of nowhere! My family is from that there Southern one where they have THREE towns!
