That is just ludicrous.
They are OUTDOORS, for crying out loud.
How much chance of catching a virus is there in a setting like that?
Very little, but that's not really the issue.
The issue is when they sleep in huts, church basements and whatnot at night.
The AT runs through my town in North NJ, the one church used to allow overnight stays in the basement but was closed by obergruppenfuhrer Murphy.
The chance of catching it on the trail itself is pretty close to zero but there are some boardwalks through our swamp where you have to pass people and breath in each others faces while you do it. What happened when everything shutdown in March, everyone in town had the same Idea...let's go walk the trail. There were thousands of people in an area that might see 200 in a day.
Not long after, they AT conservancy shut it all down.
None. It’s all about Statist control of the masses that they can control (and ignoring those they cannot control, like Aunty-Fay and BLM hoping they don’t get too out of control).
[[How much chance of catching a virus is there in a setting like that? ]]
About a 1 in 600 billion chance of gettign the v irus, and if they do, they stand a 99.9% chance of surviving it-
obviously much to risky, must shut down trail! /s