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Originally Posted by dirk digler
I think they have had a great effect, sure there are some that don't care, but we have all seen the images of empty highways and places that are normally full.
I believe in the case of Florida they are going to lock down all the beaches and probably have police guarding the popular ones.
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To use Missouri as an example again.
About 6 days ago, shortly after some of these lockdowns had been issued in/around St. Louis, there was a survey of highway accidents over a 3-5 day stretch (I don't recall specifically)
Over the same period of time one year prior, the accident rate was roughly
100 times higher. With no state lockdown order in place. Because people simply weren't on the road.
The idea that there are hundreds of people still out there operating fairly normally and therefore it means that nothing we're doing has a measurable impact is just folly.
If a plan requires 100% compliance - scrap that plan. That's a bad plan. If Andy Reid calls a game that requires everyone on the field to execute perfectly 100% of the time in order to win - that's a bad coach.
The amount of buy in we've seen in this country is pretty spectacular. But just as people know full well that smoking, drinking and driving, not wearing a seatbelt and a whole slew of other things are dangerous to themselves and others but do it anyway - people are going to defy these orders. It's going to happen.
So again, if the fundamental premise of your plan is that 350 million people are suddenly going to be come wholly obedient stewards of the public good - Jesus, that is an AWFUL plan. Get a new one.