In some areas, not all. The decisions should done by the local managers.
“In some areas, not all. The decisions should done by the local managers.”
It has to be done at the state level I suppose.
It would seem that the states that have closed restaurants are expecting to see their healthcare system near or above overload in about 10 to 12 days.
They hope to keep the active infection rate at a sustained level. Whatever that is above capacity, I don’t know, but I did see Dr. Campbell on YouTube cite a report that to keep the infection rate at or below the level of healthcare we can provide in the US would take 10 years for the virus to work through the population.
That’s probably the whole population, not the 60% amount that the UK has said is necessary for herd immunity.
The states are obviously tracking lots of more confirmed cases than are being reported in the news. My thinking is that tests paid for by private insurance are not being reported, based on “patient privacy.” Then they make an estimate of real infections based on positive tests, I’ve heard increase positives by a factor of 10 to 20 to get an idea of the real case number.
So they will monitor the infections as they go up and try not to overshoot the sustained level they are trying to hit.
The next steps would be to close all business other than grocery and pharmacy. After that a lock down, no one can leave the house except to go to find groceries or medicine. They probably will limit those to one person per house shopping, if your last name begins with A-N you can go to grocery on Thursday, etc.