This is a really good point, and it all goes back to treating US or even a state as a European nation. The US is not like that at all. What is appalling that

This is a really good point, and it all goes back to treating US or even a state as a European nation. The US is not like that at all. What is appalling that the CDC seemed to be completely clueless to these basic observations, as if it weren't their job to make sane recommendations beyond the "everyone everywhere immediately shut yourself indoors for a few months" (a recommendation imported from China FWIW)