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evertonfc

(1,713 posts) Thu Mar 19, 2020, 01:59 PM Mar 2020

Rural areas are not self isolating [View all]

I work 45 min from Nashville. We are working from home. I had to drive into office downtown to grab some files. The city is pretty dead. The suburbs and rural areas are not. Nothing is closed really.

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Rural areas are not self isolating [View all] evertonfc Mar 2020 OP

In my part of PA rural areas seem open but much reduced, suburbs are not doing jack Amishman Mar 2020 #1

That is how it has been here where I live about 100 miles south of Raleigh, NC. Jamastiene Mar 2020 #2

But they're doing their best AirmensMom Mar 2020 #3

I had to go buy grain for goats and some materials... jcgoldie Mar 2020 #4

We live in rural northern NY... WePurrsevere Mar 2020 #5

well its going to be harder to provide medical care to those areas when they get sick milestogo Mar 2020 #6

My little rural town has gone very quiet. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #7

I was just on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state ismnotwasm Mar 2020 #8

I live in a rural area in Washington State Andy823 Mar 2020 #9