I don't think these numbers will be slowly dropping if nobody was doing something right.

I tend to be literal-minded, so when someone says "most Americans don't do" something, my first thought is does it really not reach 50%

I know from personal experience of people who are grousing and kvetching about being locked up and wanting to go out, but then personally choose to stick at home.

Like, here in Houston the mayor has said reopen restaurants need to stay at 25% capacity. But the two times I've actually gone out, we were below 10% capacity.
The Houston bar scene is mostly dead. I have four different friends who owned bars and all of them are staying shut. People are going to safer places like the beach or parks where you can space out from others.

There's a couple of wig out cases who are waving their stupid little signs and talking about their freedom and whatnot, but by and large I think the majority of us are hunkering down still.

we're reaping rewards of social distancing from weeks ago.

But given that some places started to open around 5/1, death's should be on the increase now and hospitalizations last week.

It's not *that* delayed.

infection prevention. The virus appears to be spreading significantly in smaller towns that have tone deaf politicians. Improvement in big cities will continue to cause the numbers to drop for a little bit more, until re-opening causes them to start going back up.

Last trip to Kroger I would say it was 80-90 pct mask compliance. I live in a 70 pct Democratic area of MI.

You can tell they feel out of place, as they should.

Handling paper money is a big hazard right now.

Interestingly, it really wasn't very far back when Maryland was a very republican state. A recent setback with a repugh Gov, but hopefully Dems recover from that.

My guv is Gretchen Whitmer.

“That woman from Michigan”.

I am so proud of her. Also my AG and SoS as well.

Wish I could drink more, but my A1C doesn’t like it.

Pre-diabetes sucks.

A beer is now a rare treat for me.

is that still classified as an improvement?

Because reporting is being done by medical professionals, I think it's safe to say we're getting an accurate description of the data gathered.

There are certainly issues with not gathering enough data. That is, in part, why a disease that kills 1% of its victims has killed almost 6% of Americans who are reported to have been infected. There is a huge undercount of infections, but deaths are a lot harder to miss.

one can go to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ and scroll down past the big table to the daily new cases graph and the daily new deaths graph and see the declining trend from late April peaks.

that all the unmasked beach gatherings, park visits, BBQs, etc., will allow the trend to drop significantly.

thought my hatred of trump could be outweighed. But it is now. I don't want a single solitary person to die from this horror.

Why should New York metro covid-19 numbers be removed from National statistics?

... it drags the rest of the nation with it in cases.

Here's the link I wrote on it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213482577