Can anyone tell me how NH is doing recently? Specifically, Merrimack County if you happen to have county level data. I’ve lost track and the sites I was following aren’t that helpful unless you check in regularly and follow the trends.
It seems like a lot of people have relaxed now. It looks like my wife may have to go back to work in early July. The school system is polling parents so it’s obvious they will be going back in the fall. My daughter is complaining now that her friends are all allowed to hang out with each other, have sleepovers, etc. Arghh.
One of my best friends just decided to road trip to Florida for a week… haven’t seen him since February and will probably continue keeping my distance. Absurd.
I’ve just been using NHPR’s dashboard, which includes a look at city by city current cases, there might be county on there. Just looking at the city data, Merrimack looks pretty good compared to Hillsborough. NH looks OK thus far - cases and hospitalizations are trending downward, but I do agree anecdotally I’m seeing people acting with less care overall.
I had a meeting at work to decide when to bring people back in. We’ve had some people working in the office even though they really don’t have to. My argument was that we should be encouraging those people to continue to work remotely. I just pointed to Texas’ and Florida’s graphs. I don’t know that it’ll be a winning argument, I’m not the final decision maker but it’s nice to have a couple graphs of states that went too early and say “Do you want an outbreak? Cause that’s how you get an outbreak.”
I know a few geology grads who went to work in the Oil & Gas industry(have to pay those school loans off somehow). When their paycheck depends upon the continued extraction and use of fossil fuels, that has to impact their opinion on the topic.
Anecdotally, I’d say about 60-70% of customers are wearing masks at the supermarket.
Just from worldometers it doesn’t appear like we’re blowing up which surprises me but Sununu hasn’t been a complete disaster and even my Republican friends are mostly wearing masks inside
My ex is planning on going to Orlando with her family for a week at the end of July. I told her she was nuts, but she thinks it’ll be safe cause they’ll just hang out by the pool, golfing, and relaxing. Of course they have to fly there and back… I’d be shocked if the whole family comes through unscathed.
Meanwhile she’s begging me to hook up with her, and swears she’s been safe. Lol yeah, sure.
My right hand at work is a big Disney guy with his family, they were going to go in late July but have decided on universal studios instead cuz apparently Disney was “going to suck with all their restrictions”. We were talking today and he mentioned his vacation coming up and I said something like yea i wonder if it’ll still be open by then, it’s getting kinda bad down there, he just kinda passed by it lol and didn’t say much else about it.
Same guy too that told me the other day that “eventually we are all going to get it so whatever basically.”
The state of Victoria is in crisis, with daily new cases reaching as high as THIRTY THREE!!! with community transmission in several suburbs. In response, the government there has called in 1,000 Australian Army troops to provide logistical support to police in containing this dangerous flare-up. I am not kidding about this.
