The good news? After 14 days my daughter, recently returned from Spain, is out of quarantine with no sign of coronavirus.
The bad news? The state is shut down.
For the record, here is a county-by-county map of cases in Minnesota:
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| Metro? Yes. Western Minnesota? Not so much |
Here's Wisconsin, which is operating under similar, if slightly more strict clampdown rules:
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| Stay on Highway 8 and you're good |
Only 3 counties have a real problem at the moment -- Milwaukee, Dane, and to a much lesser extent Waukesha.
How about our neighbors in Iowa? They aren't currently doing a clampdown.
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| Not so good in Iowa City and Des Moines, but otherwise? |
Then consider our friends in Illinois, now under a far more draconian clampdown thanks to their governor:
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| Lotta clear spaces here, especially in the southeast |
So my question is this -- why are governors imposing one-size-fits-all solutions on their states? I'm assuming we can still ask the question for now in this forum -- not too many blue-check thought police read this feature. When this is all over, I will be curious to see if some of these counties are still free of the virus. If you believe the narrative, a plague is spreading across the land and it's everywhere. And perhaps it is. But I wonder, just a little bit.
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I'm afraid we will never know. There is an estimate out there that 80% of us have a natural immunity to this, so even if we do "test positive" it is meaningless. And only by testing everybody can we get a real idea of how contagious it is and we're not ever going to do that. Add to this that the vast majority that develop symptoms don't recognize it and simply recover, and what you have is, IMHO, a lot of hype that is more contagious and virulent than CV will ever be.
Meanwhile, some states such as Rhode Island (Live free or die, bitches) are trying to keep New Yorkers out, and supposedly they are also searching neighborhoods. But why limit this "build the wall" mentality to just states? Northern MN wants cabin owners to stay away, and even upstate NY and the Hamptons are demanding that New Yorkers stay in their sh*t-hole cities.
As a former NYC resident might put it, "Most peculiar, Momma."
I'm glad to hear that Fearless (or Immune) Maria survived Spain and close herding with fellow travelers without bringing home a special souvenir!
I'm glad to hear that Fearless (or Immune) Maria survived Spain and close herding with fellow travelers without bringing home a special souvenir!
We are, too. Things in Spain got dire in a hurry.
was Immune Maria allowed to quarantine at home, or was she placed in isolation somewhere?
i've been self quarantining for 10 days. got my results today, i'm clean.
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