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To: MinorityRepublican
I don't know. I'm in Northern Virginia and we are all under house arrest so I don't know how or why the cases will be surging. Rush hour traffic is down 40%.

In addition, all Metro bus routes are free since the passenger gets on in the back of the bus to reduce interaction with driver and the buses look empty to me. The subway has reduced hours and riders.

The National Mall is closed in DC. They actually have cops that will give you a ticket if you try to walk from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. One of the bridges from Va to DC is closed daily to discourage day trippers.

Parks are closed. All the vast battlefields in VA are closed and these are huge wide open spaces that you can't walk in. Shenandoah Natl Park/Skyline Drive is closed. All trails including the Appalachian Trail are closed.

From Northern Virginia, the closest I can get a legal haircut going south is South Carolina and going west is Missouri. I put a notice on Nextdoor.com if any unemployed barber/hair stylist needed a customer wanting a haircut and all I got was an admonishment for wanting to break the quarantine and someone who wanted to know how social distancing would be enforced if I got a haircut.

So, to answer your questions, the model that DC is using (it is different from the one Birx uses) shows a surge in DC - get this - in August. I believe this is the same model Gov Blackface uses, too so you have the Mid Atlantic expecting the surge to peak in August. How I don't know since we are literally under house arrest.

10 posted on 04/18/2020 11:27:26 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Dave W
I am tracking National and international COVID-19 fatalities on a size- and time-adjusted basis. D.C is the seventh worst state/region in the US but it's better than many Western European nations.
11 posted on 04/18/2020 11:34:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Dave W

Just call it your Coronadoo and go with it. I’m in nova too. By my observations it’s a petri dish right now.


12 posted on 04/18/2020 11:34:08 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic #godwins)
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To: Dave W

I’ve got s kid at Ft Belvoir...working from home.


50 posted on 04/19/2020 5:23:11 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Dave W
All the vast battlefields in VA are closed and these are huge wide open spaces that you can't walk in.

Are you sure about that? NPS has closed the visitors centers and restrooms, but my understanding is that the fields and trails are open. The Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania and Chancellorsville-Wilderness websites say so explicitly. Manassas is silent on the question, though at Manassas they could severely impede walking if they closed the park roads and parking lots.

I was at Antietam maybe two weeks ago, shortly after MD ordered its lockdown. A lot of people were out walking the grounds.

56 posted on 04/19/2020 6:36:53 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Dave W

The federal courts are closed here in Northern Virginia for all but telephonic hearings which don’t require evidence or testimony. All filing has been done electronically for years, so we can still file cases and motions, but anything requiring testimony or evidence, like a trial, is continued to June or later, and I suspect will be continued again. Although, oddly, orders in uncontested matters are being entered at lightning speed.


62 posted on 04/19/2020 8:08:05 AM PDT by PUGACHEV
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