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Originally Posted by cdcox
Cowboys and cowgirls like the hair dresser and the Lake of the Ozarks crowd are going to end up shutting down the economy.
To keep things open, everyone needs to be doing these:
1. Wash hands (20 seconds, about 10x per day)
2. Social distance when ever possible
3. Check your symptoms every day. If you have any new cold/flu symptom, stay home*
4. Wear a mask in public places (primarily to protect other people from you)
There are 100K people walking around in the US right now who are spreading to others and don't know they are sick. Until everyone starts acting like they might be the sick one, we are risking reentering exponential growth. If a geographic area is in exponential growth, it will get shut down sooner or later.
My university is making serious plans to reopen in August under the guidelines listed above (with a lot more detail). However, I know that a certain fraction of students will be doing the Lake of the Ozarks thing when they aren't in class. That will bring the whole thing down.
* Ideally anyone who has even a single cold/flu symptom could get tested and quickly find out the results, and go about their business if they were negative. Without testing capacity I understand the temptation to say, "it's just allergies".
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Being outside at a pool party or lake when it's humid out is not an ideal environment for the virus to spread. It will spread, but at a much lower rate. I bet in a dry, cold day in January at a high school gymnasium for a bball game might be up to 10 times worse.