Quoted from bobukcat:if all the cases of the virus are isolated to one area why close businesses that are 100s or miles away that may never have contact with the infected areas?
That's incredibly short sighted. Think about it: they have to shut down a wide radius because people roam far too easily and nonchalantly, even beyond "affected" areas.
You're over a hundred miles away from Louisville... but LAX was probably a draw to many others further than you!
My brother lives nearly 1,000 miles away but drove up last week - before the mass closings began, let me be clear - so we could work on his truck. We had travel to various stores rounding up needed supplies... we finished and he drove back yesterday. So I hope he didn't catch something while here to bring it back there. And hope he didn't bring here it with him in the first place!
Now that's just two people going about their preplanned lives keeping mostly to themselves. But Multiply ten (or hundred) thousandfold and you can be sure others come from and go to infected areas both known and unknown across even greater distances.
Last weekend we were supposed to attend a large regional archery tournament for my daughter. We would have traveled 50 miles to get there and others would have come from double and possibly even triple that distance. It was ultimately canceled of course, but I'm sure you can figure out how the ripple effects for spread would overlap. From just one tournament. For one interest. So again, multiply that across all the other sports / hobbies / professions / interests having their own events... then all those people go back home to the small hardware store, bar, church, or whatever...
