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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have family in Phoenix. No one has taken it seriously. They and all their friends and neighbors have been golfing, socializing, and shopping as usual. Big Easter dinners rolled right into kids’ birthday parties and golf tournaments. “We’re allowed to X” has been the common refrain, with no thought as to other options or courses of action.

If things get “really bad”, everyone’s going to get out of Dodge and go to their vacation homes in northern AZ for the summer.  Bringing the virus with them, of course. Just as they did when they originally brought it from Sun Valley to Phx during ski season. [/quote]

I live in AZ. Few people here take covid seriously. People did follow the rules during shelter in place (from what I saw) but it has been a total free for all ever since we reopened. Masks are very uncommon.

I wanted to note my agreement about “getting out of Dodge”. Yep- that is what people are doing- and not because of covid, but because of the heat. Everyone here travels during the summer (anyone who can afford to, anyway). Most people who live in AZ are transplants and did not grow up here. Everyone is either traveling for leisure or heading to visit family in locations with milder weather.

It’s a problem. And with the “rules” being determined state by state with no federal or regional coordination-  outbreaks in one state spread easily with travel.

That said, we do have a big problem up on the Navajo reservation, and I have heard firsthand that up to 20/25% of the cases are coming in from MX (US citizens and dual citizens returning home for treatment). And we have a LOT of dual citizens .
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But the root of the problem is AZ citizens and locals not taking covid seriously. [/b] [/quote]

OP here.  
Where my sibling is (Major medical center in Phoenix) it's just "regular" people.  Not Navajos from a reservation or crowds from Mexico.  Just parents and professionals and people getting it from stores and jobs and restaurants and life.  Total cross section of society--not any one population.  [/quote]

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