We've had some activity in the last 24 hours.
We have our 4th confirmed case in the county; a 62 YO male, apparently travel related. Not sure if travel related still means travel to/from infected parts of the world still, or infected parts of the country, or infected parts of the state.
Nobody from this county hospitalized but we do have two cases in our hospital from the county west of us.
Our Governor's Stay At Home (SAH) order went into effect at midnight last night. The panicked people were panic shopping at all the grocery stores since he issued the order on Wednesday. It also coincided with the monthly deposit of welfare and EBT money. What a zoo!!
Our local Wally World has made some changes coincidental with the SAH order:
The Non-Grocery doors are closed and for "Emergency Exit Only"
The Grocery side crosswalk is blocked off with cones to vehicle traffic and a city policeman is there to make sure nobody drives through the cones anyway.
They have caution-taped the two doors so you have a distinct path to exit the store and a distinct path to enter the store. The entrance path starts about 50 yards down the sidewalk in the opposite direction of the non-grocery side. So you start the cattle gate entrance path as far away from the center of the parking lot as you can get.
There are two "Greeters" assigned to sanitize carts as you enter.
They no longer even think about "checking" receipts on the way out.
Pretty well stocked inside the store with more non-self-serve lanes open than I have ever seen. No TP still.
About 50% of the people in the store (customers and associates) were wearing masks or covering their faces with scarves a-la-bandito style.
Statewide, since that one day drop in new cases on 30 Mar we have continued to go up. You can't see the axis on this snippet but this is a linear scale and the increase so far looks pretty linear rather than the dreaded exponential.
Current numbers for the State are:
Confirmed Cases: 9585
Deaths: 163 = 1.7%
Hospitalized: 1215 = 12.7%