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[deepwaterdotter]

I look forward to a time when I feel safe enough to physically visit the inside of the local brick-and-mortar businesses.  Until then, I'll shop with the help of my home computer and phone. 

[Lipstickdiva]

Governor Dewine just announced salons, spas and barbershops can open on the 15th of May.  Restaurants and bars can open on the same day with outdoor seating and on the 21st inside.  Of course there will be restrictions. 

[Travone]

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@Lipstickdiva wrote:

Governor Dewine just announced salons, spas and barbershops can open on the 15th of May.  Restaurants and bars can open on the same day with outdoor seating and on the 21st inside.  Of course there will be restrictions. 

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I like that the decisions on the restrictions were made by a committee of those in the industries.  It will be interesting to see how some of the restaurants reconfigure their spaces so everyone is separated.  Also will be interested to see how many people choose to sit inside the restaurant. 

My hairdresser texted me this morning saying she is working on her shop trying to determine how to move the chairs around so there is space.  I don't thinks she should have too much of a problem....it is a small shop.  Just her and one other.

[Tessa Mendoza]

@wildcat fan - I read that about NY also.  If that is true, what good is isolation really doing?   Maybe the people weren't totally truthful about who was coming and going from their houses even though they were staying home.

[Happy2BHere]

This Time magazine/John Hopkins site is a good place to watch what's happening nationwide that's updated daily - you can also click on your state, and there's another place in there to click for different countries.

https://time.com/5827156/squashing-squash-curve-coronavirus-covid19/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_mediu...

BTW I also saw a report on the BBC that said the first known case in France was actually at the end of December! That surprised me, because I thought it was February for some reason.

"A patient treated in a hospital near Paris on 27 December for suspected pneumonia actually had the coronavirus, his doctor has said.

This means the virus may have arrived in Europe almost a month earlier than previously thought.

Dr Yves Cohen said a swab taken at the time was recently tested, and came back positive for Covid-19".

The patient, who has since recovered, said he had no idea where he caught the virus as he had not travelled abroad.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-52526554

[Drythe]

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@NickNack wrote:

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@KayinMN wrote:

Well our Governor thinks that it is ok to let a dog get its hair cut and groomed, but not a woman.....More people here have died from the flu and pneumonia than from Corona yet we are prisoners.

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@KayinMN   That is just not true anymore.

From October 2019 to early April 2020, the flu killed an estimated 24,000 to 62,000 people in the U.S., according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those numbers are preliminary, and the CDC said it stopped updating its preliminary estimates for this flu season on April 4.

If 62,000 people died from the flu between October 1 and April 4, that means the US had an average of about 331 flu deaths a day.

By contrast, coronavirus killed more than 62,850 people in the US from the first known death in February through the end of April, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

So from February 6 through April 30, an average of more than 739 people died per day from coronavirus in the US.

With the flu, each person infects about 1.28 other people.  With the novel coronavirus, each person infects about 2-3 other people.

Coronavirus is so much worse than the flu.

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@NickNack 

Thank you for this clear statement of the facts.

Can’t be repeated often enough.

[Kalli]

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@Caligurll wrote:

Regardless of when my state opens up, I'm not going out any more often than I do right now until I personally feel comfortable and safer.  That might be a week or might be a month or longer.

Up until this, I always took some comfort in knowing our government (at the federal level) would take steps to do whatever necessary to keep it's citizens safe; but I think those days are gone.  That reaction has been as shocking as the virus to me.

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@Caligurll , I feel the same as you. And while I’m tired of being home, I’m not willing to go out and about since my county’s cases are still rising every day. 

I, too, no longer feel those in power care one bit about the little guy.

[RedTop]

WV is opening slowly.  

Salons and barber shops started opening this week with strict guidelines.   My pedi shop opened; I had an appt today, only 2 of us in the shop and we wore masks.   

Restaurants can serve food to customers outside if they have outdoor seating, keeping tables 6 feet apart.   Indoor service with distancing starts soon. 

Churches can have services following distancing criteria.   One of our churches with a large congregation is offering an early service for seniors and a later service for all others.   The church has been sectioned off, families must sit/stay together, no singing, and everyone remains seated at the end of service with dismissal starting at the back rows first.   Any conversations with others must be done outside in the parking lot.   

I am glad to see a gradual opening, and hope WV residents remain cautious with resuming a sense of normalcy.   The virus is here to stay awhile; we must figure out a way to live safely.