Granted, it’s anecdotal, but I complained just yesterday that there didn’t seem to be much of a lockdown in effect around here. What do you know? The New York Times confirms that southerners seem to think the coronavirus is interesting but not something that should interfere with getting around.
Stay-at-home orders have nearly halted travel for most Americans, but people in Florida, the Southeast and other places that waited to enact such orders have continued to travel widely, potentially exposing more people as the coronavirus outbreak accelerates, according to an analysis of cellphone location data by The New York Times.
The divide in travel patterns, based on anonymous cellphone data from 15 million people, suggests that Americans in wide swaths of the West, Northeast and Midwest have complied with orders from state and local officials to stay home. Disease experts who reviewed the results say those reductions in travel — to less than a mile a day, on average, from about five miles — may be enough to sharply curb the spread of the coronavirus in those regions, at least for now.
Dawn is in her 3rd-week of working at home, and neither of us has gone anywhere but for unavoidable errands. We’re definitely in the minority, though.