Michigan Shelter In Place Order.....A Daily Report!

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As Coronavirus Restrictions Lift, Millions in U.S. Are Leaving Home Again

 

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I see it as flawed anyway. Think about it.

The southern states that have re-opened show little to no movement of people from the stay at home orders! Yeah, right!

 

You could try opening it in an incognito tab.

 

I think it is relative to what they were doing before.
Note: The map shows the change in the average share of people sheltering at home from May 1 to May 8, compared with the average over the period from March 20 to April 30.
So it stands to reason that Michigan shows such a large increase in mobility.

 

Why don't you check it out, before dismissing it. Keep an open mind. I post stuff like this because I want my FHC friends to be informed and stay healthy.

 

As Coronavirus Restrictions Lift, Millions in U.S. Are Leaving Home Again


By Gabriel J.X. Dance and Lazaro GamioMay 12, 2020

Where people started leaving home again
Percentage point change in the share of people staying home


Note: The map shows the change in the average share of people sheltering at home from May 1 to May 8, compared with the average over the period from March 20 to April 30.
After weeks cooped up at home following governors’ orders to contain the coronavirus outbreak, U.S. residents appear eager to get moving again. As more states began to relax restrictions, about 25 million more people ventured outside their homes on an average day last week than during the preceding six weeks, a New York Times analysis of cellphone data found.

In nearly every part of the country, the share of people staying home dropped, in some places by nearly 11 percentage points.

This chart shows the share of people nationwide who stayed home on a given day in the last few months.

Last week, the share of people staying home was 36.1 percent, on average, or about 119 million people. That’s a drop of 7.7 percentage points from the average during the peak period for sheltering in place.

From March 20, when states began telling people to stay home, to April 30, when many states eased those restrictions, 43.8 percent of U.S. residents — about 144 million people — stayed home.
The share of people staying home remained far higher than the U.S. average before the outbreak, which consistently hovered around 20.7 percent of the population, or about 68 million people.

The surge in movement came as more than half the states started to reopen their economies or had plans to do so soon, despite concerns among public health experts about the possibility of additional waves in new coronavirus infections and deaths as a result.

While it is too early to know whether the increased activity will mean new waves of infection, social distancing has proven one of the most effective means to curb the spread of the virus.

The estimates of the number of people moving were made using data provided by the location analysis company Cuebiq. The data comes from a representative sample of about 15 million smartphone users nationwide who have agreed to share their location data with certain apps, according to the company. Because the sample is only a proportion of the population — and because not everyone in the United States owns a smartphone, or carries one with them everywhere they go — the numbers are estimates.

The share of people staying home varied by state, with some states seeing more significant drops in sheltering.

In places where statewide orders continued to limit peoples’ movements and to close businesses, like New York and New Jersey, more people continued to stay home. In states that had started to slowly reopen, including South Carolina and Florida, a greater share of people ventured out.
No state saw a larger drop in the share of people staying home last week than Michigan, even though its stay-at-home order remained in place. While half of the state’s residents stayed home on average during the preceding six weeks, that number declined by nearly 11 percentage points last week, as approximately one million people there started moving around again.

Arizona had the smallest drop in the number of people staying home in the country, with a difference of only five percentage points last week compared with its average over the previous six weeks.
The states whose shutdown orders lifted beginning May 1 saw the share of people staying home drop by as much as nine percentage points last week, but many people still continued to shelter. Tennessee was the only newly reopened state where less than 30 percent of people stayed home.

Alaska and Colorado lifted their shutdown orders in late April, and both experienced significant drops in sheltering. Alaska saw the largest increase in residents who decided to leave their homes — about 10 percentage points, or about 73,000 people.

Colorado still had the highest average share of people staying home among reopened states, at 37 percent, or approximately 2.1 million residents. This group also includes Mississippi, where just 26 percent of people stayed home last week on average, the lowest share in the nation.
Some states never ordered residents to stay home at all. In none of these states did more than 40 percent of residents consistently stay home.

People living in rural areas often need to travel farther for basic needs such as groceries, and the number of people staying home in these areas was typically less than those in suburban or urban areas. But each saw the share of people sheltering drop by roughly the same amount. The share of people staying home in rural areas last week was only about 8 percentage points more than before the outbreak.

Methodology

Cuebiq calculates distance traveled by measuring a line between opposite corners of a box drawn around the locations observed for each device on each day. The company identifies the “home” of a device based on observations of where the device is over time, and considers “staying home” as traveling up to 100 meters from that location.

The New York Times used Cuebiq’s summaries of device movements in each census tract to calculate state and national averages in rates of staying home from Feb. 1 through May 8, the latest date for which data was available. We used these averages and population data from the United States Census Bureau to calculate estimates for the number of people staying home.

Designations of urban, suburban and rural areas are based on census tract-level measures of both population and building density, with the top fifth considered urban and the bottom fifth rural.

The status of state stay-at-home orders comes from a Times database tracking such orders. States whose orders lifted at 11:59 p.m. on a given day were considered to have reopened the following day.

 

Midwinter , I love the detailed information. I'm a sucker for that, as it's kinda my thing.

That said I think weather plays a big part in this. It looks like more of the northern states show an increase in movement one the time goes on. Makes sense really, when it's cold rainy crappy and we've been told to stay at home, buy groceries for weeks at a time etc, it only makes sense. As weather gets better, people will venture out more. What quantitfes going away from home? Is that outside the house? Going a mile away into a woods or park? As long as you're social distancing, going to the park or out out on the boat is good for mental health, but also the UV and heat is good to help kill the virus.

Eh, there's that whole data thing. Statistics show what you want them to.

It is interesting though

 

There are a lot of moving parts that can't be accounted for! Take Michigan, if movie theaters, restaurants, malls etc. are still closed, the increased mobility is likely outdoors!

 

Absolutely.

 

Yup. I get up at whatever hour of the day, usually between 3 and 5 AM. Travel all over the state, every single corner. Travel to New Hampshire weekly. Have had 2 blood tests in the past few weeks and fired my doctor. Don’t wear a face mask, don’t buy into the fear mongering or gloom and doom. Nothing has changed in my life or my family’s.

 

Mine has, I eat out less, otherwise same. Well except church is still closed.

 

Well, Wisconsin supreme court just determined that our governors "safer at home" mandate was not legal. 4-3 it won, so barely. What this all means? Who knows. We were almost at all the signals to open the first stage anyway. No matter what, social distancing and methods to prevent overcrowding will still be necessary.

 

Yup we like to go to Ground Round a couple times a month for some wings and burgers and a couple beers. About the only thing we miss. Always there with friends. Good time normally.

 

That's a lot of smudge pots! I've always wondered how those would heat inside if you had them hooked to a chimney.

 

So the bars all reopened last night in our state after the Court ruling. They apparently were packed, shoulder to shoulder. Oh boy...