Over 140,000 population in our county and 10 hospitalized with 0 in the ICU. 42 dead but most of those were from an outbreak in a single nursing facility. With numbers like that its hard to get into a panic. Our great Governor sure wants us to though...unless you want to loot, riot or deface property, then you get a free pass.
Here in AR, there is a real problem, but it is restricted to 2 counties. It would be stupid to enact statewide measures because of two counties. I live in the worst county, and am OK with the restrictions or requests they've made for the individual cities within the county. thankfully they aren't trying to make the whole state be lumped in with us. The one county I live in and the one next to it are responsible for about 1/3 of the whole state positives.
Also, the number in and of themselves aren't really that high, it's just that there aren't that many ICU beds within the state to begin with.
