So where do you stand?

[Yppej]

I saw on the news today more confirmation that sunlight, heat and humidity kill the virus. It would be great if all outdoor summer activities could be permitted without the stifling masks, then change gears when the colder weather comes back. There is a reason you don't see big outbreaks in tropical countries and it's not because people there take malaria drugs. That has now been disproven.

[dado potato]

I don't influence the governor nor various businesses and institutions in my community. I certainly wish them well, and hope for neighborly consensus.

However, I do have agency in regard to my own home, family, and social groups. My wife and I are 70 years old, so we will take all reasonable precautions. We will not be entertaining, but if friends drive up to drop in on us, we have Adirondack chairs in our front yard. Visitors may stay in their cars on our driveway, and I can move the chairs to set in a 6-9 foot radius from their car. We are staying at home... using Facetime and Zoom on occasion, and talking to lots of people on the phone.

Every 10 days or so, I go to the store wearing Bando mask and gloves. In and out, pay with a credit card.

In our county just one person tested positive. He recovered. We are seeing more traffic, good people from Illinois and Down-State, with boats on trailers. I figure that if they can put up with us locals, surely we can make them feel welcome here. It's a free country. I can imagine that if they had homes in Chicagoland, or M'waukee, and they owned a cottage in the Northern Highlands of WI, an area where counties have at most 4 cases, they would be like the swallows coming back to Capistrano.

I maintain a spreadsheet of the numbers that tested positive in WI each day since 3/16/20, when there were 47 cases in the state. As of today's report, 8,901 persons had tested positive. In other words, COVID-19 is spreading. More people are getting sick.

I keep track of the new cases reported each day, and I compute a 14-day moving average of the daily new cases. If and when I see a decline in the 14-day moving average number of new cases per day over an interval of 30 days, in WI, I would conclude the threat of contagion has receded in our state. Then I would suggest to DW that we could mingle with people again.

We are not out of the woods yet. (In fact, we've got woods, trilliums, and spring peepers on all sides!)

[Tradd]

I saw on the news today more confirmation that sunlight, heat and humidity kill the virus. It would be great if all outdoor summer activities could be permitted without the stifling masks, then change gears when the colder weather comes back. There is a reason you don't see big outbreaks in tropical countries and it's not because people there take malaria drugs. That has now been disproven.

My outdoor activity includes a mask AND my own air source!

[bae]

Good lord....

[catherine]

My daughter is considering downsizing her September wedding to a very small affair and then waiting until next year for the reception. To be honest, if she goes that route, I'm wondering if the delayed reception will ever happen.

We have still not seen the VT grandkids etc. Still haven't been to a supermarket since mid-March.

We had two casual interactions with a couple of friends around the fire pit--the distance across the fire pit is about 6 ft or so. No masks.

I truly don't know where I stand. I'm still just taking it all day by day.

[dado potato]

@ catherine

I think these times call for elopement.

[Teacher Terry]

Oregon has a state emergency in effect until July 6 but not a lockdown. They are 2 different things.

[Simplemind]

Yes Teacher Terry, we are encouraged to shelter in place but are free to move around the cabin. We went out to Costco today (which I had heard was very organized) and found the roads very busy. Costco was not organized. Nobody was counting how many went in. They were chasing people down who didn't have masks and escorting them out but why not grab them at the door when they are showing their card to get in?? No going one direction, no attempt to stay 6ft away even though there were employees waving signs to remind you. It was just weird...………..
I am happy that medical offices are slowly opening so DH can get in for his scans. I don't see going to the dentist unless something falls out of my mouth. My eye Dr retired during the shut down so I'm switching to DH's dr and we both go in at the end of May. That's it, have no other plans on going out other than provisions.

[iris lilies]

We all need to stay away from Rosie the queen of corona.


Julio down by the schoolyard is an OK fellow.


Ha ha Ha ha ha it’s a joke.

[jp1]

This is what I would like to see reopening look like. Based on studying the facts and making decisions accordingly. A kneejerk quick decision is not the right decision. Acceptance of lots of dead people is not the right decision. So glad that I live here and not in one of the states where research is being squashed China-style.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/04/41...stanfordbiohub