List what state you are in and give a short paragraph on what you see or don't see in your surroundings with Covid 19

I don't understand the coincidence. I also don't understand why nursing home residents are catching it.

Nashville

Traffic is 25% of normal. The state is under a stay at home order. Grocery stores are reasonably well stocked... beef, chicken, milk, bread, rice. The only thing that was sold out was dried beans. I can't speak to the TP situation since I didn't look. I only saw one other person wearing a mask in the grocery store.

Percy Warner Park was packed with the parking lots full and cars parked on the side of the road. There were lots of 3-4 person groups running close together. I don't plan to go back there, period.

Beaman Park at 10AM was the same. However, I went to Beaman again this morning at 8AM and it wasn't bad. If I go again, it will be at 7AM. The foot traffic picked up a lot after 8:30AM.

The weather has turned warm and there are a lot of motorcycles on the road.

Coronavirus test reporting is way behind. My training partner tested 15 days ago and still no results.

former Iowa great wrote:

I don't understand the coincidence. I also don't understand why nursing home residents are catching it.

Because one resident catches it somehow and it spreads like wildfire in close quarters with sick elderly people there .

One other point - someone snuck into the hospital and stoled all the protective masks -15000 of them .

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Interesting that the first 12 posters are all unregistered, all paint rosy pictures of the virus . Just a coincidence everyone mentions the streets and parks are packed ? st

LRC doesn’t care about public health

Southern California.

People Ive never seen before are jogging up the street, down the street, in the street, on the sidewalk. I can see random people still hiking on closed trails up on the hill. Cyclists haven't stopped their rides, sometimes two abreast with masks or scarves. A lot of newbie cyclists out with no helmets on the roads with backpacks.

The grocery stores have lines out the door but I go to one that doesn't have lines and always go on Fridays around 6 or 7 pm to avoid the crowds. Everything is well stocked excluding frozen foods, canned foods and toilet paper.

People are saying how good out Governor is for being transparent and quick acting. He also looks like he could use a nap and a long vacation. In his eyes he is holding back fear and tears.

The smog is gone. The traffic is gone. Essential workers are being the busy bees they have always been.

The general consensus is we'll be on lockdown for a very long time. If you're over 70 you might be locked down for well over a calendar year.

Nobody is freaking out yet. We all hope low income and eventually no income households get the help they need.

People are wearing masks and gloves. The majority of people are. Some businesses have a cardboard box in front of the cashier so you have to stay six feet back. Some employees are taking this very serious and won't let you wander in the store and they ask what you need and take you to the aisle. This is a hardware store scenario.

Virginia - I’m in smaller city, plenty of outdoor activity but traffic is overall fairly light the few times I’ve been out in last couple of weeks. Know multiple people who have tested positive, all mild. Except one woman, family friend in her 60s is hospitalized on a ventilator, slowly recovering. She was/is fairly overweight and not particularly healthy pre-diagnosis. There have been about 50 deaths in the state and close to 20 have occurred at one retirement home near Richmond.

Really, you anticipate this lasting through the summer?

Hounddogharrier wrote:

Interesting that the first 12 posters are all unregistered, all paint rosy pictures of the virus . Just a coincidence everyone mentions the streets and parks are packed ?

I don't doubt their experiences. We're all runners so the only places we're seeing are home, streets, parks, and grocery stores. My experience is pretty similar but the doctors I talked to in major cities tell a very different story.

I am amazed though that people think they won't get hit by the virus just because it's been fine so far. We have to stay-at-home and ramp up the testing in order to know when it's safe to open back up. Almost everywhere in the USA most people still can't get tested - travesty.

We know that we will get it so why not sooner so that we can go back to work and school. If we can't live, we would rather die.

I believe so. Our population is pretty large and we lack testing. I have a hunch most families will become complacent if they have a nest egg. I don't see schools being refilled in the Fall either, unless it is essentially a daycare scenario.

It might ease up in the summer with the younger generation but I do believe our 50 and plus crowd will not go back to work and will not go back to normal.

We also have to worry about how many people will not be employed for a very long time.

And then there's fire season.

Inland central California (aka middle of nowhere). We've been under "house arrest" for two weeks. Streets are even quieter than usual, although working from home I see scattered other people out walking dogs I've never seen before when I'm out walking my dogs. I assume all of us used to be at work during the day and weren't out walking our dogs. I'm sure the dogs don't mind all the walks and the face time with their humans.

I run early in the morning (less early now that I don't have to go to work!) I rarely saw other people out at that time and I still don't, although the people I do see are now friendlier--we always wave and wish each other good morning at our designated social distance. The streets are fairly quiet during the day, although not zombie apocalypse quiet. I bought a takeout pizza on Saturday night and the pizzeria seemed to be doing good business.

Most people in the supermarket are wearing gloves and/or masks. There has been no toilet paper or disinfecting wipes in the local stores for over two weeks, and scattered shortages of standard staples like eggs, rice, and rolled oats. I'm spending more money on food than I used to because I'm now buying more expensive brands of things I used to buy generic versions of.

My county has a population of about 270,000. We have 29 reported cases and one death. I assume it is basically impossible to get tested here unless you are severely ill or you have the right connections, so the number of cases must be vastly underreported. However, the one death suggests it hasn't hit hard here (yet). To my knowledge our local hospital is not overwhelmed with cases.

I've heard forecasts of mid-May to early June until it peaks here, so I think we need to figure out how to live under "house arrest" for a long time.

Southern Wisconsin

I don't know anyone that is sick but think that may be due to lack of available tests. My mother in law works in a Madison hospital and says they only have a few Covid patients. People are starting to wear home made masks. I saw a lady with her mask pulled down so she could smoke.

I saw my nurse friend start to cry in the grocery store today because her hospital has halted all elective surgeries so she only has one shift a week and lost most of her income. Her husband and I both loss our income a few weeks ago. The economic ramifications due to the shut down divide those that are in different situations. More people fall through the cracks of the stimulus than one would think.

Lots of people are walking outside so maybe all the fatties in WI will get skinny and healthy before the virus hits. They all keep their distance on sidewalks and in parks.

former Iowa great wrote:

We know that we will get it so why not sooner

It's because of overwhelmed hospitals.

- not enough beds for everyone to get sick at once

- not enough doctors and nurses to treat everyone

- not enough safety equipment to keep doctors and nurses safe

The US has way fewer of the above things than you might think. Not just in cities. I heard an interview for a rural hospital that serves 4 counties. They have like 7 doctors and 20-30 beds, a couple ventilators. When a few COVID patients came in they almost ran out of masks and gowns. If they get any more, they expect to probably run out.

Overwhelmed hospitals means having to let some people die and not even try to treat them - this is what someone said above about nurses not calling a code. It also means your nurses and doctors don't have PPE and start catching COVID and can't work and/or die.

So I know lockdown sucks, but we have to flatten the curve. I hope your state's leadership is planning to test as much as possible so they can open up ASAP and let things back to normal. But you have to get information before you can make that decision. And even if you do open up, it can be an eventual death sentence for nursing homes and a lot of other people, so I'm sure governors are going to tread carefully.

SoCal

Everything is closed. Been cooking out plus pizza and Chipotle.

Been flying coast to coast for under $200 and free upgrades to first class. Added Maine and next week will head to Vermont to accomplish a bucket list item: having run in all 50 states. Vermont will be my 50th state.

I'm also in SoCal - 'the valley' specifically - and can confirm what 'heyheyhey' above said. The lack of smog and noise has been a silver lining.

One of my wife's coworkers got it and has been sedated on a ventilator for more than a week. He is very obese and in his late 20s; he will live but was 100% on the ventilator for days. Another co-worker had symptoms with a positive test but is fine. My wife and I weren't supposed to go anywhere public for 8 days (6 days had already passed since her work went online) which was hard.

I agree that this will go on through July if not longer here in CA. I'm not sure what the end-game is supposed to be.

South Central Tennessee, about an hour south of Nashville.

I live in a rural area, on the border of two counties. Both counties have had their first positive tests within the last week, one of which resulted in a death. A lot of places have shut down but it still kind of feels like business as usual. I went grocery shopping yesterday and the place was packed, about 30% of the shoppers were wearing masks.

My wife and I live out in the country and prior to this could count on one hand the number of times we have met other folks out walking or running while on our daily runs. Now it's happening on a near daily basis.

I’m also in SoCal-LA area. Mainly agree with what others from here have said. I would say the hugest difference I have seen so far is there NO traffic. I can literally get to work in half the time it normally takes and when out running, don’t have to avoid cars. Other than that, yeah more people exercising outside, grocery stores busier but no overwhelming sense of panic or anything. I work at a hospital also and so far it has been relatively calm, but I know others in the area have more cases. They are telling us next 1-2 weeks might get worse.

I'm in Silicon Valley and we were initial hotspot #2 after Seattle. I won't repeat what others have said (25% of normal traffic, most everything closed, markets out of stuff and people shopping with masks and gloves, etc). We also shut down early so our infection rate doesn't seem to have spiraled out of control like it has in New York and elsewhere. But I thought this might be interesting to many of you: I participated in a Stanford study over the weekend in which they tested 2,500 healthy people in 3 drive-through locations throughout the Valley for coronavirus antibodies. The idea is to get a sense of how widespread the infection rate has been among those of us who don't have symptoms or have had minor illnesses in the past 2 months that we shrugged off as colds or whatever. I won't know my results until next week. The end-game is going to be either a vaccine, a really effective treatment, and/or herd immunity that we can be confident in by doing widespread testing for antibodies (like the Stanford experiment this weekend). Let's hope!

hgh wrote:

I'm also in SoCal - 'the valley' specifically - and can confirm what 'heyheyhey' above said. The lack of smog and noise has been a silver lining.

One of my wife's coworkers got it and has been sedated on a ventilator for more than a week. He is very obese and in his late 20s; he will live but was 100% on the ventilator for days. Another co-worker had symptoms with a positive test but is fine. My wife and I weren't supposed to go anywhere public for 8 days (6 days had already passed since her work went online) which was hard.

I agree that this will go on through July if not longer here in CA. I'm not sure what the end-game is supposed to be.

Ohio here. Just went to an Orgy. not a care in the world.