I live in one of the hard-hit areas (northeast). It's not good, but also not nearly as bad as portrayed by TV/media. Poorer people are having the toughest time.

I live in one of the hard-hit areas (northeast). It's not good, but also not nearly as bad as portrayed by TV/media. Poorer people are having the toughest time. Once in a while I get in my car and drive around, and things seem pretty normal. Most days look like a saturday in terms of traffic, people outside, etc. My parent live in one of the capitals in the south and one of them is working directly on the "frontlines". They had one covid-related death in the past 30 days and most of the reserved hospital beds are empty. Their city took stronger measures much earlier and their poverty rate is the lowest in the country. Other than school and some other business, life there is normal. (throwaway for I try to to avoid identifying information associated with my username/handle)