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It shouldn't need explaining to anyone who's been paying attention at all for the last two months, but: You can spend up to two weeks infected and contagious be
by throwanem 7y ago
It shouldn't need explaining to anyone who's been paying attention at all for the last two months, but: You can spend up to two weeks infected and contagious before you start showing symptoms. So when you drive a long way, from a place with lots of cases to a place with few or none, and then do stuff like go to stores to get groceries or whatever the hell rich people do to open up a vacation house that's been uninhabited for a while, you're quite likely to be spreading the disease without realizing it. That's a favor to the virus, but not so much to the townies of whatever picturesque vacation destination you're gracing with your property taxes - and where hospital support is weaker in any case than wherever you conceive of yourself as fleeing from, because picturesque vacation destinations don't need much or any ICU resource most of the time.
- ryanianian 7y agoThere is a way to do it safely: follow the same 14-day self-quarantine regimen that's recommended for anyone who's traveled. Don't go to stores, don't go to gas stations, pretend like there is nuclear fallout outside.
- throwanem 7y agoI feel like that's a lot of benefit of the doubt on behalf of someone who's already behaving selfishly, you know?
- ryanianian 7y agoSorry, but how is it selfish? If you can leave a dense area and self-quarantine for 14 days, you're actually doing a net positive by reducing density. The only added "risk" is that you might crash your car on the way. That feels less bad than retransmitting the disease in a crowded area.
- throwanem 7y agoYou can just as effectively, maybe more effectively, self-quarantine in a dense area, and not risk any circumstance at all leading to transmission elsewhere.
- ryanianian 7y agoIt is vastly easier to avoid casual contact in rural areas. Even going to get my packages in my building I walk past people and touch elevator buttons etc. In a rural area I just get my packages from my porch.
- ghaff 7y agoAnd relatively few people are going to voluntarily stay confined to their small city apartment for weeks. I live in a semi-rural house and I can easily go out my door and walk in the woods for an hour or two. (Or drive somewhere else quiet which I mostly haven't been doing.) The only real contact I've had with people is having gone to the grocery store a couple of times--and I could probably have used delivery for that (although with the lack of stock, that might have been challenging).
- stronglikedan 7y agoBut they're not being selfish if they're doing it correctly, as the previous comment describes.
- exclusiv 7y ago> It shouldn't need explaining to anyone who's been paying attention at all for the last two months Your condescending attitude is not necessary. If you have it in a dense area and don't know it as your example, but are still out on occasion to get whatever critical supplies you may need, you would be likely exposing MORE people. You're also assuming the destination has no cases at all and will never see any. Locals in these places often get supplies outside of their town. And yes, if people own homes there, you can't stop them.