D&D and the rising pandemic

[Theo R Cwithin]

Silver lining (please dont hate me)

Although you could probably pick MORE isolated areas, there is a vast amount of completely empty land throughout texas so there is more geographic isolation than if some other states tried this. So if it goes well, YAY, if it goes poorly, well the explosion would probably be worse if other states had tried it. I guess what im saying is, if it goes horribly wrong it probably wont go AS horribky wrong as it couls go if a different part of the usa tried this. Hopefully it goes well?

There's plenty of open land, but that's not where the people are. Just the stretch from south of Houston to the northern reaches of DFW is more or less one long swath of urban development for most of those 300ish miles.

edit: The "Texas Triangle" megapolitan region (delimited by Houston, SanAntonio, and Dallas/FortWorth) has a pop of nearly 18M.

 

[Zardnaar]

Well for those of you who think it will be right.

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Sweden deaths per million. 88
USA 66
UK 145

Sweden has one of the best healthcare/welfare systems in the world.

They thought their health system would work.

It didn't. It was the last European country to lockdown.

 

[GreyLord]

Stress can run high I suppose and people get a little irritable. We all need to relax sometimes. Trying to stay safe and healthy.

I have continued my gaming online. We just finished the first level of the Dungeon of the Mad Mage (finally). That took longer than expected. Many levels to go.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Well...no details yet, but it seems our state government is going to make Texas a lab for relaxing the pandemic orders.

Texas governor vows to issue an executive order to end state's lockdown and help residents 'get back into the workforce'

"One thing about Texans, they enjoy working and they want to get back into the workforce," said Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

www.yahoo.com

To be clear, I would rather be wrong than proven right, but I don’t this will go well.

I wonder if/when stricter states will start shutting borders with prematurely-open states....

 

[ad_hoc]

Texas is the main area I'm worried about.

7-10 days after Easter Sunday we might see an explosion there. Same again after May 1st.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There's plenty of open land, but that's not where the people are. Just the stretch from south of Houston to the northern reaches of DFW is more or less one long swath of urban development for most of those 300ish miles.

edit: The "Texas Triangle" megapolitan region (delimited by Houston, SanAntonio, and Dallas/FortWorth) has a pop of nearly 18M.

Sometimes it seems as if I-35 from Dallas to San Antonio is almost completely paved.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

You:
Texas has 3 of the USA’s 10 biggest cities- Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio- which between them have at least 3 international airports and one of the biggest commercial ports in the USA.

Me:
Im aware. I assumed that we were talking about a loosening of quarantine that was strictly "in-state". Consider my statements as having only been intended for that assumed premise.

You:
The three are well connected to each other via rail and highway as well. And our state capitol is located between them.

Me:
Not relevant. Im talking about the reletive isolation from texas to other states. Geographic isolation by area, features, and emptyness. Also i did make a caveat originally to it not being the state that exemplifies it most of all possible 50 states but that it does more so than most states.

You:
We also have a lot of major military bases (mostly AF* & Army) here.

Me:
I see that mostly as something that could be a major upside or downside entirely depending on how nuanced their handling of this potential factor is.

You:
If it goes horribly wrong here, there really aren’t many worse places in the USA it could happen.

Me:
I strongly disagree. Because i do not desire to make you angry im going to not argue the point further. Im gonna bow out. I hope i havent bothered you.

 

[Theo R Cwithin]

Sometimes it seems as if I-35 from Dallas to San Antonio is almost completely paved.

Hehe, yep. If nothing else, I can at least confirm that there is a lot more I-35 corridor traffic nowadays than when I was a kid in Austin.

 

[Son of the Serpent]

There's plenty of open land, but that's not where the people are. Just the stretch from south of Houston to the northern reaches of DFW is more or less one long swath of urban development for most of those 300ish miles.

edit: The "Texas Triangle" megapolitan region (delimited by Houston, SanAntonio, and Dallas/FortWorth) has a pop of nearly 18M.

My point is that there is a lot of empty space that makes it hard for the virus to travel out from texan populations in multiple directions toward other parts (though not all parts) of the usa. Not perfect. But better than some places.

Like i said though. Im bowing out. You commented right around the time that i made my other comment so i felt it rude not to respond. But im still bowing out. I just think thats a good idea.

Oh. Just to clarify something i have already touched on. My comments are made with what i percieved to be the premise, which was that texas was planning to loosen quarantine but only IN STATE.

Ok. By. Have a wonderful day.

 

[Umbran]

My point is that there is a lot of empty space that makes it hard for the virus to travel out from texan populations in multiple directions toward other parts (though not all parts) of the usa. Not perfect. But better than some places.

So, the bowing out thing isn't really necessary. I don't think anyone's mad at you or anything. I just think they want to make clear a couple things that don't make opening Texas really very safe:

1) With three cities totaling 18 million people interact a lot.... whether they can travel out of state doesn't really mean that it stays "isolated" - having a huge pool of people to get sick locally is still a huge problem - just ask New York.

2) Those airports mean that they start travelling domestically if they return to "business as usual".