So what’s the problem with D.C.? It didn’t get out of control like NYC so why are the cases going up exponentially?
Guess that is why Nancy stayed away, helps to know the plan
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.
My son works in DC, not far from the White House, and has been working from home for a month now.
Virginia is about 2-3 weeks behind the outbreak in NYC. Cases continue to increase, with a heavy concentration in Northern Virginia.
My guess is that one of the reasons for this is that the DC metro area is heavily reliant on commuter trains, similar to NYC.