>streets blocked with people going to the countryside A pandemic isn't a nuclear attack, leaving town won't get you anything. Fleeing the towns was popular wh

>streets blocked with people going to the countryside A pandemic isn't a nuclear attack, leaving town won't get you anything. Fleeing the towns was popular when the miasma theory of disease was in vogue, and would have been useful for avoiding animal vectors, but you wouldn't expect it to happen with COVID-19.