People get lax every weekend. What we need is some rainy, cold weekends.

But people need to post where they live exactly - as in what street- bc this isn’t a NOVA thing across the board. I’m in Ballston - tons of high rises with millennials who you’d think wouldn’t care bc they’re so young and have dogs to walk and coffees to get. It is EMPTY. I can see 4 streets from where I am — 2 major ones, 2 residential ones — as well as a small grassy area with benches etc. I have never seen more than 10-12 people out across that 5 block radius and the ones that are out aren’t separated by 6 ft but more like 100 ft.

So yeah I think people are looking for excuses to do what they want under the guise of “if others aren’t following the rules, why should I??” Suit yourself but you know you’re lying to yourself.

The chumps are the fools violated guidelines. Even the 6’ recommended distance is grossly inadequate based on experiments tracing virus projection time and distance... 6’ is for chumps, more like 9-12’ appears to be a prudent minimum.

No exposure is even better.

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Anonymous wrote:Fine for now. There will be a resurgence in about 2 weeks. The numbers in The DMV are still going up everyday.

Yep. The "my neighbors didn't really distance and they're fine" poster and his ilk deserve to watch as people around them get sick in weeks to come. Do they just plug their ears and cover their eyes when there are accounts of how long infection can take to show up? Do they not want to admit that you can feel fine and have no symptoms and be infectious to others?

Ignorance and arrogance will make this last and last but they value watching flyovers and holding backyard parties over the health of strangers they might infect.

My neighbors have been fine for 7 weeks. Is it a 7 week incubation now?

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Anonymous wrote:I agree, a lot more people are ignoring the warnings

Right. Because it’s totally stupid to lock up healthy people. We should quarantine elderly/unhealthy and get on with our lives!!

With a disease that allows asymptomatic people to be contagious, you can't know who's healthy. Getting on with your lives may mean ending somebody else's. Not only does it put at risk every single person you come into contact, but every person they come into contact with as well.

But of course, it's "totally stupid" to consider somebody else's survival to be as important as not disrupting your preferred activities.

I'd like to know, if you do get sick, getting on with your lives, are you going to fend for yourself, or are you going to seek medical help, endangering medical personnel and taking care/resources away from other people who may have gotten sick despite doing whatever they could to avoid the disease?

But do you understand that if those at risk of getting severely sick just stay home, then those asymptomatic people are not putting people at that great a risk. It's so simple it's infuriating.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve been following SAH orders pretty much to the tee. No socializing, 1 person getting the groceries as infrequently as possible, contactless delivery, not visiting grandparents, etc. We’ve been on walks and I had to go to the doctor but other than that, not out just doing stuff. Today we just went for a drive and all up rt 15 are open ANTIQUE stores... tiny little stores filled with people in them. I saw a mass of teens congregating at a small dirt beach at the creek on my walk , a herd of tweens biking ... people are really just out here doing whatever. You would NEVER know there was such a thing as stay at home in place. I feel like a freaking idiot, we’ve done everything right for 8 weeks and it seems like half of northern Virginia is just life as usual. Wtf!

Well some people look at the numbers and make decisions based in facts not fear.

People under 60 need to stay home. Fat people need to stay home. Everyone else should treat this like the flu. Period.

Many of you need to get your anxiety under control

+1 ^^

Looking at the numbers, I don't understand this paralyzing fear. Yes, there's risk. And 6 ft apart, masks, washing hands frequently, etc (minus the masks, dobt people wash hands and make space pre-Covid?) lowers that risk.

There are like 8 million people on VA. 500 (sadly died). 15k are (+). Not very scarey.
Unemployment rates; now that is scarey.

You have this attitude because you are not in the high risk group or do not know someone who has died from this. Shame on you.

What about asthmatics, those who have heart disease, auto-immune deficiencies? They should not be exposed to idiots who have COVID-19 but may not be showing symptoms. If they get this virus they will die! Some people must go to work and cannot afford to be exposed to asymptomatic carriers just because they don’t feel like wearing a mask or staying 6 feet away. I don’t want to lose my life because of them. If some of us get COVID-19 our chances of survival are next to none because we have simple medical issues like asthma.

Put a mask on people!

Okay, please understand how irrational you are being now. I agree, we should all stay in a little longer, but you are not helping the case with your over the top hysteria. In fact, even in the high risk group, you are still LESS likely to die of COVID than to die. Much much much more likely not to die. Chances of survival next to none?? If your anxiety is so high that you cannot understand the basic facts, then yes, you just need to stay home.

Anonymous wrote:^^ good for you

You decided to ignore doctors recommendations because you knew better. I prefer to listen the experts not random people on DCUM or Twitter. Gov Hogan is taking advice from experts so I will continue to SIP until I am told otherwise

Oops several people posted between my response and the PP I was responding to! I was responding to the poster who said she never sheltered in place

Anonymous wrote:Fine for now. There will be a resurgence in about 2 weeks. The numbers in The DMV are still going up everyday.

Yep. The "my neighbors didn't really distance and they're fine" poster and his ilk deserve to watch as people around them get sick in weeks to come. Do they just plug their ears and cover their eyes when there are accounts of how long infection can take to show up? Do they not want to admit that you can feel fine and have no symptoms and be infectious to others?

Ignorance and arrogance will make this last and last but they value watching flyovers and holding backyard parties over the health of strangers they might infect.

^^ good for you

You decided to ignore doctors recommendations because you knew better. I prefer to listen the experts not random people on DCUM or Twitter. Gov Hogan is taking advice from experts so I will continue to SIP until I am told otherwise

Anonymous wrote:People are telling themselves a lot of stories to enable poor choices.

This

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OP, never feel like a chump for doing what you know is right. And don't fall for the "I made a choice for myself about risk" idiocy. Those people do not want to admit, or are too dumb to comprehend, that with a highly communicable virus, no one makes any choices that affect ONLY themselves. Their choices will affect others even if they never realize it. That is how viruses spread. You know that; they are are shallow and so weak they can't resist...antiquing. Pathetic.

Was this Rt. 15 in Virginia? We are still not open for non-essential businesses. Nothing defines "non-essential" like antique shops. I would have taken photos and video and reported those shops. I hope you do so. That will not be popular here on "you do you and MYOB" DCUM but so what? And before anyone carps about "the economy!" I have two siblings with very small businesses and though this is hurting them -- they ALSO agree with continued closure because they foresee a cycle of open-shut-open-shut if we don't do this right. That cycle would be FAR worse than adhering to rules is now. Deal with it.

One reason the DMV has been one of the hotspots the last couple of weeks is probably due to all the crowds at the Tidal Basin 6 weeks ago. Just like with Mardi Gras and New Orleans, it took 4-5 weeks for the spread to become obvious.

Fine for now. There will be a resurgence in about 2 weeks. The numbers in The DMV are still going up everyday.

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Anonymous wrote:We are having a culdesac lawn chair happy today and we cannot wait!

Lock yourselves in your homes, it’s your choice.

I mean this is why I feel like a chump. I really thought we were all banning together for the common good. Like there was solidarity in this. No. People like you drinking with your neighbors and letting your kids congregate in groups of 20 mean the rest of us were doing it for no good reason.

Exactly. This is a prime example of why you should learn to think for yourself. Now that the charade is mostly over and the cats out the bag, I mostly did what I wanted during the lockdown. I exercised discretion with who I told, but I was never on lockdown the way most were. Just saying

I agree. Now that we are easing up, I wish I’d done it sooner. Several of my neighbors did and they are fine.

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Anonymous wrote:We are having a culdesac lawn chair happy today and we cannot wait!

Lock yourselves in your homes, it’s your choice.

I mean this is why I feel like a chump. I really thought we were all banning together for the common good. Like there was solidarity in this. No. People like you drinking with your neighbors and letting your kids congregate in groups of 20 mean the rest of us were doing it for no good reason.

Exactly. This is a prime example of why you should learn to think for yourself. Now that the charade is mostly over and the cats out the bag, I mostly did what I wanted during the lockdown. I exercised discretion with who I told, but I was never on lockdown the way most were. Just saying

Maskless millennials with terrible sidewalk etiquette. They seem very lonely.

Northern VA has been awful throughout this. Entitled fools.