Which US states are ready for phase 1 of reopening after coronavirus lockdown?
By: Peter Aitken - Fox News
Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the case for President Donald Trump. And Donald Trump is using the absolute authority of the Presidency to open the country. The middle of America is ready to begin returning to normal. Andrew Cuomo has made that possible sooner than expected by bolstering liberal support for what Donald Trump would obviously do.
No one should be surprised that the middle of the country would be able to return to a degree of normalcy before the coastal areas with their high population density. No one should be surprised that rural areas would begin opening up before metropolitan areas.
The severity of pandemics correlates with population density. More people in close proximity really does translate to more sickness. The purpose of social distancing is to reduce population density. So, it shouldn't be surprising that parts of the country with lower population density will return to normalcy before areas with high population density.
Undoubtedly politics will enter into opening the country, too. Oddly, it's the Democrat's bastions of urban sophistication that will suffer most and suffer longest. Donald Trump can hold rallies in corn fields and attract crowds; that's an advantage Joe Biden doesn't have. Democrats may need to reacquaint themselves with small town America to remain politically competitive until the miracles of science arrive. Small town America doesn't have to wait for the big cities to recover; Andrew Cuomo said so.
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Several states have started to outline how they will reopen after a month of lockdown measures designed to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
While some states have yet to see their peak, others have managed to flatten the curve, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo saying that “the worst is over” for New York state – the epicenter of the pandemic in America.
President Trump announced a plan on Thursday to reopen the country in three phases, based on the severity of the outbreak in each state or region.
"We are not opening all at once, but one careful step at a time," Trump said, adding that the guidelines were "based on hard verifiable data."
Initial phases call for states to maintain many of the current measures such as social distancing, avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people and avoiding unnecessary travel. Subsequent phases will ease each of these measures.
Ultimately, the governor of each state will decide when is best to reopen. As such, here are the states that have already confirmed that they plan to reopen, and when they plan to do so.
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Middle America isn't fly-over country now. Because those on the coasts can't fly.
And the air is so much cleaner, too.
The Navajo rez is over 27,000 sq miles with a population of 175,000. Flagstaff has a population of 73,000 and other cities close to the rez is Farmington NM with a population of 9K, Winslow AZ 9k and Page AZ with a population of 7K. The Hopi reservation is within the boundary of the Navajo rez.
You're correct people come from all over the US and countries around the world including China.
It's a national park and of course, people want to visit. The Hulapai rez in right in the GC and they have no cases to date.
If big cities are the problem which none of those surrounding the Navajo rez could be considered to have a dense population or a large population that indicates that there is far more to the spread than big cities and dense populations.
The Gila Rivers rez in right on the edge of Phoenix the largest city in AZ and their cases to date are minimal.
Over 5 million tourists visit Flagstaff each year. Flagstaff sustains a high density transient population of tourists.
The Navajo Nation has its own Department of Tourism, too.
The Grand Canyon attracts about 6 million visitors each year. That's a high density transient population of tourists.
The Grand Canyon and Flagstaff may have a small number of permanent residents but the transient population of tourists is much larger than the permanent population. That's why major tourist attractions behave like metropolitan areas.
I'm well aware of tourism etc in the GC and Flagstaff.
Yet the Hualapai who live in the Canyon itself has no cases to date. And the Gila River rez next to Phoenix has minimal number of cases.
The Pueblo of San Felipe is located in NM and the closest is Bernalillo NM with a population of 10,000 and minimal visitors if any have an infection rate of 50%...
Hard to explain these cases.
Our governor (CA) has plans to slowly reopen the state in test phases. It is up to us to still use common sense and not treat the opening(s) as a free for all to go back to old habits.
Pretty sure that’s the new normal ..... at least until an effective vaccine is developed.
We need to consider this by county within each state not just by state. There are vast differences within most states.
Michigan is a great example of that: