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uvontheterrible 24 points ago +24 / -0

Quarantine and lockdown are two different things as I understand it.

Lockdown basically means you need to stay home and only go out for essentials, but you still have some basic freedom of movement in your local area.

Quarantine means you cannot leave the area, so if NYC has a high infection rate, don't allow people to leave NYC and carry the virus to other parts of the country.

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magabigleague2 29 points ago +29 / -0

New Yorkers are going to be fleeing after this announcement. They're going to spread it even worse in the short term.

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uvontheterrible 36 points ago +36 / -0

They've already been fleeing, that's the problem.

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Isolated_Patriot 18 points ago +18 / -0

"Social distancing means driving six states away to infect my family, since I'm not working, right?"

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INK10 1 point ago +1 / -0

So true.

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USA_is_best 6 points ago +6 / -0

Yup. Texas is imposing a 14-day quarantine on anyone flying in from NY, NJ, CT, and New Orleans.

So is Florida, but its not really being enforced. The state is just basically trusting that travelers will listen and quarantine at their destination.

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bronnakus 7 points ago +7 / -0

Along with a trillion other things our mom cough cough i mean governor is forcing on us

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magabigleague2 8 points ago +8 / -0

Is it time to build a wall around NYC?

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Razeontherock 1 point ago +1 / -0

Good! MA is wishing it had done that.

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ronburgandy 7 points ago +7 / -0

I was stuck behind an idiot with New Jersey plates driving through my neighborhood in Kansas at 15 mph.

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Razeontherock 2 points ago +2 / -0

He was trying to spread it to as many people as possible, obviously.

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MichaelHall1 8 points ago +8 / -0

I saw this TV series. It wasn't very good and was canceled after the first season.

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Brucesky420 5 points ago +9 / -4

Yea quarantine means no one in and no one out without proper permissions. Honestly, I don't think it will do much good. It's already pretty much everywhere. Just be smart people

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SecularConserv 4 points ago +6 / -2

Yes it will make a difference

You can contact trace and contain it in areas with very few infections

We need to shut off New York with same as we are stopping flights from other countries

Why does it make sense to stop flights from Europe into the us but the let anyone from New York run all over the country

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Razeontherock 2 points ago +2 / -0

Same for NJ and CT! Utterly impossible to separate these 3 States. The NYC greater metropolitan area includes all 3, and huge numbers of people commute from much of NJ and CT to NYC. No way to contain that except by isolating these 3 States as a group.

Within those States they can try to limit the spread into their more rural areas, but they still have more infections there than the rest of the Country. Seal those State borders!

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SecularConserv 2 points ago +3 / -1

I used to live in Connecticut so I can tell you it's very much a county thing

People from the Hartford area aren't going to New York or Boston very often

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Gingersmom2009 -1 points ago +1 / -2

Get some new material. You know nothing about New Jersey. Up the thread you claim to be from Wisconsin. South Jersey is FARM LAND. I live here.

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Imransgarage 2 points ago +3 / -1

Right tons of doofuses have been calling what we’ve been experiencing a “quarantine” when that only applies to a tiny fraction.