I’m glad those Arizonans are going outside to party. It’s much better than being in some bar. But none of them are wearing masks and the virus is exploding in their state right now.
People should just stay away from others for a while:
Temperatures were expected to rise to over 100 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) on Sunday along the Salt River east of Phoenix. On Saturday, dozens of people climbed into inflatable inner tubes with coolers and took to the water to escape the heat. Very few wore masks.
Texas is taking this much more seriously:
Texas shuttered tubing and rafting business on Friday and some beaches in Florida are closing again ahead of next weekend’s Fourth of July holiday to try to curb the rising outbreak in those states.
California’s Governor Newsom is threatening to shut down the state again since they’ve found that many businesses are not following the guidelines and our numbers are exploding. It looks as though all that pain we went through in the spring may have been for nothing.
Here is an interesting chart which shows the case loads per capita of all the states. It gives a slightly different picture of the epidemic. What it doesn’t show is the dramatic rise in cases per capita in the three big states California, Texas and Florida over the past couple of weeks:
