May I ask… in what city did this occur?
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thanks @anon61221983!
this is my second job, and i thought about staying home at the start of things to stay more safe. it just didn’t feel right to abandon my long time co-workers who don’t have that same flexibility.
i have instant access to food and toilet paper 
, paid-time off if it comes to it, decent co-workers… most of whom take things seriously ( except you chad* ahg! ), and some token hazard pay…
so things are okay so far.
it’s the systemic things in this country and this administration – both putting everyone at risk – that make me most worried and upset.
(*) not his real name. but it should be.
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No… really?
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I would expect more in a few days; opening up shouldn’t have an instant effect!
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Dubya: ‘Can we all get along, love thy neighbor and support our medical professionals?’
Donnie: ‘No we can not. Go fuck off hippie.’
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the only thing i can think is people breaking isolation in anticipation of the opening. [ well, that i guess, and the numbers simply continuing to climb on their own. ]
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I hope Tasmania can stay at zero. 
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Republican led senate asked for tests for ‘liberal hoax disease’ for returning senators before Yertle brings the senate back into session tomorrow.
(NYT reprint from Yahoo) https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-lacks-tests-returning-senators-155121388.html
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This shows real promise, and would solve the issue of white supremacists claiming that their freedom is being impinged by the government (as they can choose to not test themselves):
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OTOH, it is one economist recommending a plan created by another economist to a couple of experts in epidemiology. I would take it with a huge grain of salt.
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Moreover, no one will eagerly enter into a restaurant, board an airplane, attend a university lecture, head to the mall, or go back to work unless they can see with their own two eyes that everyone they are encountering is sporting a green bracelet.
Um, I’m not eager about entering anywhere where people can’t be bothered with face masks, but I do anyway because I have to eat.
This is the exactly the sort of thing that might work in Sweden, but will never work here. We already have wildly less convoluted and straightforward rules, and there are threats of violence, which of course are being submitted to without question.
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I smell an opportunity for a revival in a great British industry…
"Ah come in, Mr “Dobbin”, was it? Yes, we do have a state of the art medical facility here - all for treating ‘horses’ of course. And what seems to be the trouble? Ankle, err… I mean. …hock… hurting a bit is it? Yes, we’ll soon have that sorted. "
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Let me tell you that our management consultants actually queried the necessity for us to employ a pantomime horse at all.
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That has pretty much been the (unsupported) expectation, that children are not “less infected” but less symptomatic and, given typical preschool behavior, considerably more infectious. Yeah, reopening schools will more than likely lead to an explosive reemergence.
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