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Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability by dublinben on Monday October 19, 2020 @01:47PM (#24828820)
I too started preparing for the inevitable in late February, and already felt like I was behind. If you look at when various states first issued stay-at-home orders though, California's March 19 action marks the early point at which COVID was "a thing" among the broader population.[0] It was possible for individuals to be very ahead of the curve of this one, due to the slow reaction time by officials.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state_and_local_governmen...

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Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability by vonmoltke on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:14PM (#24829138)
Why are you using the 19MAR stay-at-home order as the threshold rather than the 04MAR emergency declaration?

Also, various corporations were already enacting travel-related policies for their employees in mid/late February.

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Re:Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability by dublinben on Monday October 19, 2020 @04:23PM (#24830565)
The stay-at-home orders more closely captured when I saw people's behaviour radically change, instead of the state of emergency declarations.

If you're curious for a more objective measure of when mass behaviour started to change, you can look at data like Opentable's seated dining reservations[0] or mobile-device travel data[1].

[0] https://www.opentable.com/state-of-industry [1] https://covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-of-america/cali...

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