“States are beginning to open up … and the supply chain for food is breaking...Makes no sense to me.”
The states won’t be open for long, as the numbers will start to explode again (at least until masks are required of everyone in public). Germany just learned that fact, when they tried to open up.
States are going to open up and whatever happens will happen.
Americans’ patience with this is pretty much at an end.
Or did the armed men at the Michigan State Capitol escape your notice?
But, but - there are people that need 7 guns just to go to Walmart - these people cannot wear a mask for safety - that might protect others and show respect for the people required to work there! Some of the older ones are mad they cannot blow cigarette smoke in your face anymore, so any additional inconvenience is too much to bear. I kid/ but only a little.
Sorry but I have to call bovine excrement on the whole “rising infection rate in Germany” thing. The R values are estimates, not actual data. The actual data shows a different picture. Before the easing of restrictions on April 13 there were 130,072 cases in Germany. Three days prior there were 122,171 cases. If you calculate the ratio of those numbers then take the cube root of that ratio you get an average daily growth rate for that three day period of 2.11%. On Apr 30 there were 163,009 cases; on Apr 27 there were 158,758. This yields an average daily growth rate of 0.88%, lower than prior to the easing of restrictions.