COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

EGLSShin said

Went out driving around about an hr ago just to get a view on whats going on, wanted to also see what kinda situation my fav places to eat were in. Theres a ton of traffic out there, it looked to be a normal day pre-pandemic. I am wondering if people are just fed up in general of stay at home order. Around my neighborhood, not much action, although, I got to witness my first social distanced birthday party my neighbor was putting on.

Around Veterans, Elmwood, Clearview, loads of traffic, saw a line of about 30 deep trying to get into Academy sports on Vets. Last time I drove around was weeks ago, interesting to say the least. I thought there would be less traffic

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I went out yesterday for groceries along Vets between Bonnabel and the Orleans Parish line and it seemed like traffic similar to a normal Friday afternoon. Although the Interstate traffic was more than I expected, it was not close to normal Friday afternoon traffic. Likely due to all the downtown offices being closed. But, I think that people are starting to treat this more like a long staycation than a stay at home order and that kind of worries me. I know my next door neighbor has had is grand kids and other relatives over just about every day this week (I never though he was very smart in the first place).

I get that the numbers are dropping dramatically in Orleans, although I'm not so sure about Jefferson, but now is not the time to act like everything is fine.