woodguru

There is a huge difference between communities and countries that locked things down early with their first few cases and those that did nothing for a month.

Italy is showing what happens with countries that went for weeks blowing it off, the US is set to follow that lead with a slight edge in waking up a couple of weeks earlier. That said the country is so big, and has such an array of political diversity that states and communities are going to be reacting at different paces.

California is locking it down, up until this weekend it looked like it was going to be a matter of personal choice to stick to home or continue going out to bars and whatnot. It was announced today that bars, wineries, and brew pubs are closed.... and that is going to save thousands of lives, and statistics compared to other states that are slower to go there are going to prove that.

Washington will be showing us how bad late to react communities get, California will be showing us how much better forced shutdown is. Numbers will tell the tale. We are going to have states in this country that do things differently, and are slower to respond to cases, we will see.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

How will California deal with the homeless and i******s?

PeterS

The problem with locking down communities when there is no v*****e is that all it takes is one infected person to get the ball rolling again. I am skeptical that we will get this under control until a v*****e is in wide-scale production...

zombinis3 Loc: Southwest

Some reports have California buying a hotel and leasing others to provide both for students who use the dorms and homeless.

Lonewolf

And our poor response was a week later than Italy
We need to shut everything but grocery stores and p harmacys
But that takes guts trump dosn't have

woodguru

The idea is to slow it down both to relieve inundated hospitals and later until there is a v*****e. Uncontrolled it goes up exponentially