I think whole “curve” idea should not be determined on a nationwide level, but rather on a county or regional level. One city may be decreasing, while another is ramping up. I wish these governors would look at things that way too, and mitigate the spread area by area. If you have an area ramping up, shut it down and stop travel in/out of that county for a couple of weeks.
I don’t understand how shutting a whole state (except schools and large public events) makes sense, all they would have to do is limit travel in/out of areas hard hit at the time.
A one size fits all lock down does not work.
NYC and it's surrounding areas is a good example.
Much of Upstate NY is very desolate. The Adirondack Park is 25 % of the land mass of the state. Hardly anyone lives up there, especially in the winter.
Many parts of the state have low or no cases and/or deaths.
To impose the lock down on the whole state based on what's happening in NYC is extremely short sighted and screams tyranny, which we all knew about Cuomo anyways.
I thought the shutdown measures were actually prudent to do initially, when we knew less about this virus, but they really should have been done on a county-by-county basis, unless 3/4* of counties were affected — THEN shut the state down.
*2/3 in DE and RI, which have only 3 counties apiece.