The imposition of large internal quarantines is going to encourage people to bug out at the first sign of things deteriorating in their city. Kids aren't in school; people are out of work. We could be facing large-scale internal migrations (and tensions) to rival the Dust Bowl
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Everything Trump is doing right now (threatening to quarantine a huge metro area, promising a list of least and worst-affected counties) seems calculated to make people get in their car and drive across half the country to perceived safety. Summer homes are already filling up
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This is doubly bad because places where summer homes are tend not to have a great health care infrastructure.
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Or even if it's good, it has capacity for the year-round population, not the peak summer crowd
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