Columbus zoo opens tomorrow, too. Yay!
“The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is pleased to welcome back Columbus Zoo Members beginning on June 12, 13, and 14, and all guests starting on June 15. The Zoo will be open daily from 9 a.m. until 7 p.m., and all Zoo visits (including for Members) will require a dated, timed ticket to help ensure that social distancing and other precautions are followed appropriately.”
That is not the conclusion of the authors. All they said for the lower left quadrant was:
Well, investors are certainly not liking the news of increased cases in many parts of the country.
If you scroll past the main video in the article and go to the Twitter video, you will see a glimpse into a newly re-opened Vegas casino. Zero precautions being taken by the majority of the patrons. Employees are wearing them, but very few others.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/las-vegas-is-back-coronavirus/index.html
“The St. Louis Zoo opens up today! Yay, the animals have missed us. Masks are required”
Have the animals agreed to the mask requirement? 
It would be reasonable to assume outdoor zoo visits are on the low risk portion of the scale. You’d have to be careful about the hand rails, door knobs etc. And kids are really quick with that hand to face movement.
I am looking at the upward blip from 9 deaths to 30, still a small period of time, but upwards nonetheless. I like seeing the spikes reducing a bit more. It’s all on how one is analyzing the data
I think your state is handling the pandemic well. If not for the DC area, not bad. That has skewed the stats. Though the beach crowds were there in OC past weekends, Worcester county not showing the number— the consequences may not show up there, of course.
I would guess Maryland will be moving forward in loosening up—dine in and more retail opening up. I’m sorry about the kids missing their graduations. If they’d delayed them another month, could have done it more traditionally.
How does it look for the in state public universities there for the fall?
I could see where a disproportionate number of those who visit casinos have medical reasons not to wear masks. They do tend to be older and have a higher rate of breathing issues.
The majority in the video shown did not appear to be older. If that is current footage, seems reckless. But I guess Vegas attracts risk takers. 
Thank you!! I would not do that!! I appreciate your post to me, though.
My online social circle includes activists who organized protests, and many activists who went to protests. In the last two weeks I’ve seen many pictures and posts about the protests. Now, my contacts are posting about how to get tests, where they got tests, and test results (all negative, so far, thankfully). Local health authorities are telling people to get tested if they went to protests, and my contacts are doing it.
The one with two masks and neither one on right. The reporter with his nose out. Only the workers seemed to know how to wear masks!!!
I am feeling we are not even at Sweden’s level at this point. Sweden is not doing things quite the way it sounded to me in the media. They are taking some precautions and it isn’t a totally open free for all.
I do think the kit they show a photo of that one casino is giving out is A+. Now to get people to follow through and protect casino workers…
So frustrating!!! I wish we could have been one of the countries that did things much better and smarter than we did. Or at the least, that we learned our lesson and were doing things in a smart way now.
Ours too. The faculty begged to do it live online but the admins said no.
Me too. Yesterday it got me forty extra minutes of cardio on the bike! But seriously, it’s valuable to me and others.
Back from the store and post lunch now.
At the store the only difference was masks are no longer required. I counted a total of 12 people not wearing them, 5 were elementary school aged kids or younger. 3 were middle or high school aged. 4 were adults. 2 of those would have been in a high risk group from the looks of them (age, weight), but it’s their choice. The other two were parents of the kids (or whoever brought the kids if not parents).
Everyone was social distancing and polite with no issues whatsoever.
The store was fully stocked with produce, decently stocked with meat and fish, but the center aisles were still hit or miss. They’d have something for most items, but not necessarily the brand one wanted. They had a little bit of TP today - and I think some wipes, but we don’t buy the latter and rarely use them. A lot of the cleaning aisle was empty though.
H said the DMV was as safe as they could make it with indoor chairs spaced out and lines for outside waiting. He ended up waiting an hour before it opened and roughly 35 minutes after because they were taking seniors first (he isn’t one). That beats the three hours someone said happened yesterday during the day. The worker at the DMV he was chatting with told him many people are being super angry and rude with the employees over the wait times. It’s not their fault. They don’t make the system. I wish they had appointments one could sign up for. He wished her a good day when he left.
We sent the kids for take out at our favorite market (Mexican, Central American, and Korean for us - we get enough for two meals). They said the Mexican place was very busy with mostly take out. The others were light including ones we don’t regularly buy from. I’m glad I sent them with $$ to overpay and give a high tip for those we really like. I want them to be able to stay in business. They also said most of the people there were in masks too and no distancing problems.
Youngest just went to help an older neighbor with something - not sure what. He’s a senior citizen who has residual stroke damage so is very limited with activity and knows he can count on someone here if anything comes up. H is off buying a new (to him) sailboard off Craigslist from an estate. If he likes it, it’s his Father’s Day gift. (I can’t pick those sorts of things out - he’s the expert.)
Then it will be back to our own nook of the planet. We’re watching through July 4th before we do anything more than things like this. I don’t know that any expert can really predict the future and we have no reason to take higher risks. If we opt to go to FIL’s for the 4th, the two weeks prior we won’t go anywhere - as before.
To support others who aren’t as fortunate, we’re still donating to our local food bank and two other local organizations that are assisting people - one specifically helping immigrants who might not qualify for state or federal assistance. Then we’re donating to two world groups helping in mostly third world countries and I sent more to our public television station figuring fewer people might be able to donate now.
If those of us who can help send in the $$ we aren’t spending elsewhere, more people can weather the pandemic. If folks need help due to losing income (or whatever), please accept help without feeling bad for doing so. It could be any of us.
Someone on my tv (I think a Director or former Director of a global public health entity) said that Texas and Arizona are starting to look a lot like NY and NJ two months ago (end if March/beginning of April.)
Rain has stopped and sun is out with beautiful blue skies, so I can do something outside now for the rest of the day, instead of listening to endless bad news.
I vote to keep the thread open. I don’t post on this one often, but I sure learn a lot – about responses in different parts of the country; about Covid progression (positive & negative); potential treatments and action (or inaction), and especially about my fellow posters. I especially appreciate the CC posters because in general I feel they are an educated bunch (or at least value education, which is what brought us all here in the first place).
An earlier post (on the travel thread?) stated that a fellow non-masked citizen replied to a request to wear his mask: “Last time I checked, this is a free country”. I guess my response could be “You’re absolutely correct, and last time I checked, you are free to choose to be courteous and caring toward your neighbor, instead of indifferent or worse harmful”. But I don’t have the guts. And it wouldn’t be curteous 
I wish we posters could take the same approach to at least try to be courteous and thoughtful in our replies, especially when we disagree.
I really appreciate the bar graph indicating the various causes of global deaths since January. I could not find the source of the statistics. Anyone know? I shared a similar graph with family members, and at least one argued he didn’t believe the numbers, so I wanted to verify before sharing this one.
I’m surprised to hear people are still having issues with finding TP. Our TP and paper goods shelves were full to the brimming last time I went to the store.