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It 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

• ghaff 7y ago
  And 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).