Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
Loggy: That's good. I hope you can stay there for the next month and you didn't bring it in with you. Things are going to get VERY bad. Did you bring enough beans & rice? Enough canned food? Flour and yeast so you can bake bread?
Didn't intend to mislead - we aren't staying at the cabin, it's just one of the activities that we can do without exposing ourselves to the virus. Our answer to "cabin fever", if you will.

In general, our exposure is pretty small compared to big city living. The town we are in has fewer than 10,000 people and is off the beaten track (nearest interstate highway is 45 miles away); the county only has 27,000 people spread over 4000 square miles; and it was already a pretty sleepy place. The local government took practical steps at first notice, and the state in general, while usually near the bottom of comparative performance measures like education and poverty, currently has a progressive administration and a flush budget due to the recent years of oil and gas production (that will have ended).

Costco is 200 miles away, so we are used to stocking up for 3 or 4 months at a time. We do have several grocery stores, including a Super Walmart, and they have been short-stocked recently, but nobody is driving here from other towns because they ran out where they live.

Generally low humidity, higher temps about to be here, and lots of sunshine should mean a less healthy environment for the virus (see the practical info I posted earlier). So far, no reported cases closer than 100 miles and only five within 200 miles.

Not complacent about it, though.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller