Around mothers day most of Utah just decided that social distancing was for chumps and that it was time to play. About a week later we’re spiking. The strongest spike is about 9 days after memorial day weekend (a week to incubate and 3 days to figure out you are actually sick enough to get tested).
We were on track to have no deaths by august. Now....
So good job Utah. Granted about 200 of those new cases were from a single meat processing plant, but that doesn’t account for the continued surge in 9 of 13 reporting districts.
It’s not impossible to be safe AND have most of your mobility back but people can’t handle that. People are working without safety precautions, gathering in large groups without masks and traveling without taking general safety precautions. I realize we all want this to be over...but it aint. the bulk of new cases are from people being inside in groups together.
We’ve been camping and on short trips but we minimize our contact with locals, even gas stations, and when we do we wear masks (about 10% of the people we see) and wash hands and sanitize. Again, it’s possible to mostly live your life and be safe...but just dropping the whole thing and pretending its normal is going to result in increased in sick and dead people, and frankly MORE restrictions. We’re not beyond going from yellow back to orange or red.
Humans are extremely short sighted.
Sorry for the downer
Have an artificial beach for a pick-me-up.
UPDATE: In my meeting right now I’m finding out that 30% of 1200 workers of that plant are positive and approx. 0% were social distancing. That this will be an interesting couple of weeks.