update Yellowstone/Grand Teton Closed

That sucks.... I love it there....

To an extent I get the Parks closings. 

+1 to Glue Guy.  Viruses know no boundaries and could give a flying fig about someone's politics, nationality, or religion.  I pray that we will find a vaccine sooner than later.  Sadly, due to lack of testing available, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.  And for every person infected, s/he infects at least 2 more.

There is no vaccine and there won’t be one for this round. It will peak before one can possibly be ready. Forget the movies, it doesn’t work that way in the real world.   There is no sign yet in the US numbers of any fall in the rate of exponential increase in either cases or deaths. If anything the doubling time of the death rate is shortening a little.

Control of transmission is the only way right now. And by definition that limits what we Americans cherish as our personal freedoms.There will be more than one round too, resurgence is inevitable unless lockdowns are continued indefinitely, and they can’t be. The 1918 flu had three rounds in the US before enough ppl contracted it to build up herd immunity.

The countries coming through this first round best are the ones acting most aggressively in curbing transmission by limiting movement and interaction of people. For the undemocratic ones thats pretty easy. Some are democratic but most of those (like S Korea and Singapore) are not nearly as culturally resistant to government interventions as we are.

So let’s be real, not getting to go camping is not a hardship. A hardship is what’s happening to tens of millions of poor ppl locked down in India who only eat today if they work today.

Thanks for the link to that very informative article, Glue Guy.