“No, there’s no way that a continued lockdown is going to happen.”
They are not obeying it now. Over the last two weeks, I’ve been in Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Arkansas and Louisiana. It seems like more and more people are getting on the road each day.
Dallas has to have been the worst. I’d say about 90% of normal traffic mid day.
All the cities are doing poorly on the stay at home. People can’t go out to eat and to the bars, they can’t go to the mall, but they are finding plenty to do.
Out in the country, you do see a definite slow down of people out. I was in the UP of Michigan last weekend, and there are few people on the road there.
We’ve been traveling between our home here and in NH and the roads are fairly deserted.
In the CNY area, people are staying home more. There is definitely less traffic on the roads.
I suspect that school being out plays a big role in that. For us in rural America, that’s a bigger percentage of the traffic than in the cities.
“I was in the UP of Michigan last weekend, and there are few people on the road there.”
That is called ‘Early April’...
Look, if people want to go for a relaxing drive — believe it or not, Maryland’s stay-at-home countermeasures allow for that — that’s fine with me, if that’s all they’re doing. If they’re all going someplace to crowd around or frequent an illegally-open business, they’re idiots, and Darwin will catch up to them eventually.
I’m also betting lots of people need to be on-site in the city, probably more than absolutely necessary, but there you have it. Bosses gonna be bossy.
Here in the Central Valley of CA, traffic is about 40% of normal, without the congestion of commute hours even showing up.
Dallas had 63 new cases today and had to have the government ship a bunch of supplies. People aren’t staying home.