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Wyoming is opening up slowly in phases. First opening phase starts May 1st and barber shops, nail salons, hair dressers, and tattoo parlors can open up. I will not be going to any of these places, were staying home as much as possible, only coming out for groceries once every three weeks, and to check our mail once a week, both places we go to with a mask on and gloves. We plan to stay home as much as possible for the foreseeable future. They could open up all of Wyoming and that would only make us hole up at home even more.
As I told my husband last night I will gladly trade two years of going out to eat and shopping and staying at home as much as possible, if it means that it will keep him safe and alive. We're not messing around with this virus.
Nope, but Massachusetts won't open up until it's safe to do so (unlike Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and others).
Most of my social circle is in Boston (where I live) and the NY tristate area (where most of my college friends ended up). While young people fare better, I know dozens of people in their 20s and early 30s who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and many have been sick for 2, 3, even 4 weeks despite being healthy with no preexisting conditions. A couple who I have known for a decade both got sick after exposure at work and their 4 year old became incredibly ill for 2 weeks. They couldn't hold her or comfort her for fear of increasing their viral loads and getting even sicker. Can you imagine?
Until the number of cases is low enough to contact trace, it's not worth going out. I'm going to a local farm store where they'll place food directly into my trunk once every 2 or 3 weeks, and that's it.
Our county commissioners (in CO), who previously had said they would comply with state gudelines, are now backpedaling a bit. They want to allow restaurants to allow limited inside dining with certain restrictions in place. This is purely for economic reasons.
However, even though it will allow the floods of warm-season tourists from elsewhere to eat in restaurants, thereby providing additional revenue, at least some of that will be made up for locals who have been steadily getting takeout/pickup meals all along, some of us providing huge tips (30 to 50%), who decide to stop doing so. The increased exposure of restaurant workers to unknown disease carriers translates into increased risk to the takeout-only customers, too. NO thanks. We are already used to cooking and eating more at home. Doing without restaurant-made meals would be an unpleasant choice but hardly earth-shattering.
We can eventually eat in restaurants one day but there is no “one day” after you get severely, permanently damaged by COVID-19 (or outright dead).
In short NO. Wife and I both have rfight risk factors, she began isolating at home Feb 29. it was our decision not a gov directive. We make our own decisions and are able to be more conservative than the governments, yes than even the more liberal arms even
The Governments are not more insightful than we can be with access to good info from is scarce still due to the new virus and lack of clear research on how it behaves and what makes it safe to go out. I am not relying on the tests which have continued to move slow and eveolve too. So we need a few months more at least to iknow how to keep my wife safe and if we go out and what we need to do then too
I just returned home from Costco. Tight quarters indeed. At checkout it was really bad, crammed into a lane with people stacked on top of one another, surrounded by plexi-glass. Where can I go that would be worse than that? = NOWHERE.
It's worse than standing at a packed craps table in a Vegas mega strip casino; which I would do tomorrow if I could.
I'm not afraid at all tho since I'm the healthiest dude around. The virus wouldn't stand a chance against me.
You must be young. I worked as a Respiratory Therapist in a community hospital not far from Chicago during the H1N1 epidemic. We all thought it was nothing as well. Heck we were young, it wasn't going to kill us. Until I watched an otherwise healthy 36 year old die from it. At the peak in our hospital we ran out of ventilators. Renting them was difficult and they sent us models we were never trained on. That's when we all knew this was serious. One of the young men on that naval ship died from Covid. I'm sure he was healthy and fit. Outliers exist on both sides of the Covid coin. There was a 100 year old nursing home resident that survived it and it killed a 5 year old and some teenagers. You see you can be cocky but until you play Russian Roulette with your life and catch this, you won't know which side of the Covid coin you're on. Maybe you are a lucky one and are asymptomatic. Good for you, until you bring it home to someone you love and they die from it. Want to play with your loved ones lives? This is killing people in all age groups. Do some reading about this.
Nope, but Massachusetts won't open up until it's safe to do so (unlike Texas, Georgia, Tennessee, and others).
Most of my social circle is in Boston (where I live) and the NY tristate area (where most of my college friends ended up). While young people fare better, I know dozens of people in their 20s and early 30s who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and many have been sick for 2, 3, even 4 weeks despite being healthy with no preexisting conditions. A couple who I have known for a decade both got sick after exposure at work and their 4 year old became incredibly ill for 2 weeks. They couldn't hold her or comfort her for fear of increasing their viral loads and getting even sicker. Can you imagine?
Until the number of cases is low enough to contact trace, it's not worth going out. I'm going to a local farm store where they'll place food directly into my trunk once every 2 or 3 weeks, and that's it.
Oh my, I wouldn't go out either if our area was that bad! Wow, that is very scary that you know so many.
Like many others above, my husband and I didn't stop going out. We have only stayed home one day. We have a small business that has been crippled as a result of other shutdowns and our state had a stay at home or work order, so we've still been going in every day to work to try to survive. On Sundays we've been going to drive in church in the parking lot and we've both gone out shopping as needed.
We still have a small trickle of customers come in and most want to stay awhile and chat so although we keep a six foot distance, we are still "out there."
We're following the rules and not gathering in any groups. We usually don't wear masks and it seems that mask wearing has decreased. I think that's because our area has a very low infection rate and no deaths. People are generally out and about, traffic is still fairly heavy even though many businesses are still not allowed to open.
Oh my, I wouldn't go out either if our area was that bad! Wow, that is very scary that you know so many.
The thing is, when I went into quarantine (March 13) after my office sent us to work from home, there were only around 100 cases in the state and no one had passed away. Our numbers are bad now, but we are also doing significantly more testing than the vast majority of the country.
My parents and high school friends are in Georgia. It's far more dangerous there than here, to be honest. Not enough testing, no plan for contact tracing... the states opening up now are the ones that are the least prepared.
If I walked into a small business and the people working there weren't wearing masks, I'd walk right back out and that would be the last time I ever visited. "Low" infection rate or not.
I am not going anywhere I don't have to. Once a week to the Post Office and food store. I managed to get some masks but until this calms down, I am homebound. I am 70 and in the prime age group to pack it in if I get it, plus I don't want to infect my wife. It depends on your age as well.
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