It occurs to me that you can freely roam in your private car bubble during a shelter-in-place order. That sounds indistinguishable to me from taking a stroll or a bike ride. For a lot of people -- the elderly in particular -- it may be the only way they can get out and about just for the sake of getting out. If you may drive to a park to take a walk, why may you not drive back and forth to a park just for the ride?
I may be just getting over a pretty mild case of the virus myself.
I had planned to come out of my gated garage in Chicago to utilize the McDonald's drive thru across the street for lunch everyday (my usual lunch). But instead I always find myself taking a short jaunt to a McDonald's a mile away -- a nice relief. Getting around a bit in our closed car bubbles may be just the thing to help us tolerate movement restrictions as this thing drags out -- to avoid temptation to break the "prohibition."
You can take your whole family out for the same old Sunday ride around as long as they live with you -- and stay buttoned up.
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There should be strict work rules in place to protect workers who have to handle money and credit cards all day. Hand washing facilities should be placed right at the work spot so they can sanitize immediately when they leave the work place. I'm worried about the kid in the McDonald’s drive thru window. I was thinking about sanitizing my credit card but I am guessing he of she is going to do 50+ an hour X 8 hour shift.
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Another common sense thing would be some mechanism to allow people who have passed through the illness and are beyond the transmission to others phase to be returned to circulation so to speak -- if there is some scientific/bureaucratic way to do it. Might possibly get things rolling back to normal a hell of a lot sooner -- and more smoothly transitioned. Make everyone feel a lot better to watch the world coming back -- start tomorrow. I know there is some process by which you can tell whether someone has achieved immunity -- may be just a question if possible to manufacture enough I guess.
This latter could be done at the local level -- prodding the federal to get moving. Bring the economy back for the price of some ID badges? Use the state driver's license facility? Got nothing else to do.
