In northern Alabama where I live, very few people are wearing masks or gloves and are crowding into places like Lowes and Walmart. Meanwhile, Alabama, and other states like Tennessee, and Virginia are showing increasing numbers of infections with no flattening in the curves like the the U.S. and other states.
Also, I am noticing several extreme hot-spots for infections within certain rural counties. In Tennessee for example:
Steward County, TN 21% or 1/5 people have been infected
Trousdale County, TN 12% or 1 out of every 8 people
Union County, TN 6.8% or 1/15
In comparison NYC is 2.1% or 1/48.
I’m also in Northern Alabama and our area has shown absolutely no increase.
We have had only one case since this insanity began, and that number remains the same.
And, no, most people don’t wear masks or gloves. Only a few elderly people wear masks and, of course, the Walmart employees, who are forced to wear masks.
Of course, with this hot, humid weather we are having, that will further help to kill the virus.
Positive cases are one thing....severe disease is another. Positive cases are going to increase as more get exposed to the virus but what seems to be dropping are deaths and hospitalization rates.