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Old Apr 24, 2020 | 12:00 am
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This is a worst-case scenario for the virus. You would be stopping in small towns and areas with little or no hospital care. It would be irresponsible. You would be OK, you'd be in DC by the time you had any symptoms. But others might be in trouble, the areas you could infect might be 'clean' and so nobody is testing or checking there. The guy at the grocery goes home to his elderly parent and they die. it's your fault.

The whole purpose of these staying home orders is to reduce movement. You would be going just about as far as you possibly could, and starting in an airport, where you'd be mixing with others from all over. It may be better to start driving from home and fly back, although still IMO irresponsible.

A day trip in the car is quite safe, but staying in multiple hotels, finding food in multiple places, multiple fuel stops, etc... it's a huge amount of contact points when the world is asking people to minimize them

Not saying you can't do it, you can, but you asked for an opinion and that is mine.

I won't be weighing in on responses to this, so if anyone wants to argue you will have the last word...

Last edited by CPMaverick; Apr 24, 2020 at 12:06 am
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