I live in the Atlanta metro, and everything is shut down. My wife and I eat out several times a week for dinner, and now we are stuck at home. It is a huge adjustment.
Atlanta cases are climbing rapidly. Any city with a large foreign population can expect cases through the roof. Both of us believe we had the virus the beginning of January. We both had high fever, extreme weakness, cough, etc, but since she is a physician, she has a small drugstore at all times, and we started using antibiotics, Tamiflu, and high doses of Vitamin C, and we got through it. We both went to an emergency clinic, were tested for flu, and both tested negative.
This is where the CDC has completely proven to be incompetent. They should have an antibody test to determine just what amount of the population has been affected. This is important to know, but they have done nothing. NOTHING. And this data is important, for politicians are making decisions on this virus that are so draconian that just maybe we are over the top. Through this whole pandemic, less people are dying than with the flu. At some point, we have to get smart about this into the future. John Tapper was on talking about how this will change everything. I just do not see how that works.
Restaurants barely make it through their first year in business as it is.
Once we get through this first surge, and protocols are ACCEPTED by the bureaucratic pukes, i.e. FDA, CDC, NIH, etc we will have a path forward. I think changes will be emphasis on washing hands, on a requirement to stay home when sick, distancing when possible, etc.