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I too started preparing for the inevitable in late February, and already felt like I was behind. If you look at when various states first issued stay-at-home or
by dublinben 6y ago
I too started preparing for the inevitable in late February, and already felt like I was behind. If you look at when various states first issued stay-at-home orders though, California's March 19 action marks the early point at which COVID was "a thing" among the broader population.[0] It was possible for individuals to be very ahead of the curve of this one, due to the slow reaction time by officials.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_government_responses_to_the_COVID-19_pandemic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_governmen...
- vonmoltke 6y agoWhy are you using the 19MAR stay-at-home order as the threshold rather than the 04MAR emergency declaration? Also, various corporations were already enacting travel-related policies for their employees in mid/late February.
- dublinben 6y agoThe stay-at-home orders more closely captured when I saw people's behaviour radically change, instead of the state of emergency declarations. If you're curious for a more objective measure of when mass behaviour started to change, you can look at data like Opentable's seated dining reservations[0] or mobile-device travel data[1]. [0] https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry [1] https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/california?view=social-distancing&tab=compare https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/cali...