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Originally Posted by BigCatDaddy
My last post for a bit then you can tune back in to the Pete and Donger show.
The reason I nailed it and some of you missed was I was out and about while you all did what was asked and bunkered down. I knew that the 90% number or whatever was floated around about how many were actually social distancing was bull shit. A lot of you bought it since you wanted to believe the original model could not be that far off. Because science!
So when things "opened" not much actually changed. The damage was done and that's why you see the death numbers way below what many expected and probably why Fauci understands a second wave may not happen.
Now back to your regular scheduled programming.
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I'm sure it varied a lot by place. I cross I-80 fairly frequently to go to the grocery store or pick up take out. At the end of March during the 4:30~5:30 commute hours, where it used to be four lanes of bumper to bumper traffic, the traffic was so light it could have all been carried on a single lane.
Maybe your area didn't social distance. The region around where I live certainly did.
Maybe your area didn't need to. I'm close enough to SF and Universities with foreign students from Asia and other Asian and international contacts, I'm sure it made a difference.
Traffic on I-80 has since grown a lot but I still haven't seen it bumper to bumper like it used to be.
In the last month, I have not seen a single person in a grocery store without a mask. So maybe in a few months they will be able to crunch the data and see if, or how much, difference it makes.