Urgent Petition To Keep RV Campgrounds Open

1) The test subjects got Covid-19 from international travel, domestic travel, being on a cruise ship with sick ppl, close household contact, providing healthcare for sick ppl, working in the same open space building as sick ppl (maybe, although some of them have different strains), and for other unknown reasons. Pretty much any possible way you can think of.

But with respect to trying to control the virus, there are many parts of the country where people seem to want to defy the reality of viral infection and it's mode of spread, as though they are magically immune.  The Bay Area, like many other locales, will probably fare better than places like Florida, where they seem to think they are somehow protected from the infection.  

Take the classic riddle of the lily pads. Say on day one there is one pad on the pond, on day two 2 pads, on day 3 4 pads, and so on. Now suppose on day 48 the whole pond is covered. When was the pond half covered? Day 47. On day 40 the pond was only 0.4% covered, not even noticeable, but 6 weeks had passed from the first lily and there was only a week to go.

But, a comment about the exponential spread comments of offgrid.  Not only do we have a hard time conceptualizing exponential growth in the abstract, as a practical matter, we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg in regard to the true number of infections. 

An anecdotal example.  I just spoke to someone today who probably is infected.  She is not gravely ill but has many of the identified symptoms of Covid-19.  She called her doctor and was told that she probably has the virus, but should not come to a medical care facility unless her symptoms significantly worsen.  Thankfully, she says she is improving, but that could suddenly change.  She has not been formally diagnosed and is not counted in the totals of infected people for statistical purposes.  I suspect that there are probably hundreds of thousands in that situation.  Sadly, we have no real idea.  I hope I'm wrong.