COVID-19 news from the latest "hot spot" -- Detroit metropolitan area

The Henry Ford 

hospital system

reports that 700 

employees have

tested positive 

for COVID-19,

and must stay 

at home.

The Beaumont 

hospital system

reports that 

1,500 employees 

with respiratory 

symptoms were 

asked to stay 

at home.

The June Detroit Auto

has been cancelled, 

and its downtown facility 

is being converted into

a 1,000-bed hospital.

The suburban Novi 

Exposition Center 

is also being converted 

into a 1,000-bed hospital.

The June Detroit 

Grand Prix auto race

has been cancelled.

The late June Detroit 

fireworks, perhaps the 

largest display

in the entire nation, 

has not yet been 

cancelled.

Food stores that are 

open for business, 

specifically the many

large Meijers stores,

( just starting) the policy )

and small Trader Joe's,

( since last week ),

are limiting the number 

of people allowed to shop

in the store at one time.

Worth thinking about:

  Does the entire state

of Michigan need 

forced unemployment,

that might make sense

for the Detroit metropolitan

area, for a month or more ?

Past epidemics 

have always spread 

fastest in densely

populated urban areas.

The Detroit 

metropolitan area,

where we live,

has half of 

the state's total 

population of 

10 million.

So a "one size fits all"

stay at home order,

for the entire state 

of Michigan makes 

no sense to me.

And finally, the Michigan

state legislature is 

meeting today (in person), 

and among the subjects

to be discussed is having

future meetings online !

Does that make sense ?