I was out grocery shopping yesterday and several people were wearing masks, and EVERYONE was keeping their distance and yet very polite.
Seems to me that if the store is not crowded and nobody is coughing or sneezing, then transmission by air is likely to be extremely low, correct?
That would then make the make vector contact with contaminated surfaces.
Fortunately, many, if not most people were wiping down carts and lots were using gloves.
I also deliberately went to a county nearby that has a very, very low infection rate, at the moment. Very rural, as all areas are, but instead of heading up towards Syracuse, which has most for this county, I headed further west to a smaller town.
And yes, it's a place I've shopped at before , probably a couple times a year while going through there.
I was not being a city hoard swamping the small town grocery store and cleaning it out on the locals type.
Our cases in AZ are slowly rising exponentially. We went form 50 to 510 in less than a week and I am sure it is much higher than that.
My co-worker and friend, has a family friend, 73, who was in Egypt and had to come back through that mess at the airports a week or two ago, he now has it.
I am not sure about the wife. He is in the hospital, can't breathe, they told her if she starts to feel ill, come in right away.