I’ll take a lot of heat for saying this, especially with all the sh!t CA is doing and has done wrong.
But I’m thinking CA is setting the standard for the US on how to handle the Chinese Plague.
And they started early when everyone thought they were crazy. Myself included, and I’m a native.
Maybe that’s why they have around 1,600 cases in 40 million people and enough test kits to have begun surveillance testing in several counties.
NY state has over 10,000 cases. Hell, by the time of this writing, NYC alone may have that many...diagnosed.
Almost all the quarantine has been through admonition. They assumed that everyone knew what was essential and what was not. And a lot of their great companies led the way.
Our Asian population is about 5 million. As I said early on, watch the Asian communities because they know what’s what back home and they have tended more to social distancing. Back mid-Feb quarantines directly related to being stopped at the airports was in the neighborhood of 10k, so our airport guys have been worth their weight in gold.
I also think having airlifts to several bases helped heighten awareness of the Wuhan virus while the rest of the country wasn’t really paying attention. We’ve got beach ijits, and other ijits, and I don’t know what the infection rates will be from people panic buying, but more people I talk to are in the shelter-in-place mode than flubro mode.
This weekend, they set up testing in Lake Elsinore, which is 60 min from LA and 60 min from SD. We’ve had a few negatives prior to this weekend but have held steady at 22 cases for a few weeks now but not in this part of the county. I’m anxious to see what the drive-in results are for local folk. So far, they’ve done 400 some tests, according to the OC Register
What I don’t like is,
they are expanding the testing to a 50-mile radius from Riverside (town of) and bringing them into Lake Elsinore. This means people from south LA, Orange and San Bernadino counties to the north will come in, and, coming up, all the way down to Fallbrook in northern San Diego County to the south of us. And chances are some of them will get gas, or food, or visit convenience stores among the lookie-loo things to do. I sure hope we weren’t chosen because we lean Republican around here. It’s not like OC and San Bernadino don’t have parking lots.