2714014, They get national news in Dallas... Posted by ThaTruth, Tue Apr-14-20 07:59 PM
>I think one factor that influences a person's level of >cautiousness is the region of the country someone lives. > >In full disclosure, I didn't take the threat that COVID-19 >seriously at first. But when the number of diagnoses (and >deaths) piled up here in LA, my cavalierness turned into >caution. It took living within a community that was >definitively impacted by the fallout of the disease to change >my mind. > >My sense is that most regions of the country have not hit >their peak or that their communities are spread out over a >large geographic area. In either case, the likelihood of them >coming in direct contact with someone who may be a carrier is >lower than it is in a major, dense city. Direct experience is >a greater 'teacher' than observation in most cases. > >As the virus builds towards a peak and more communities are >deeply affected, hopefully more people take this outbreak with >the proper level of gravity. At least before conditions >worsen.
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