The COVID-19 pandemic

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So, what is it? You can't leave your home for non-essential visits, but there will still be social gatherings and non-essential retail stores? What's the real answer?

Also there is nothing wrong with going for a walk or a run. Just don’t form a crowd. Requiring short hours for retail likewise makes no sense — what is needed is to encourage long hours. In the extreme, imagine every store was open 7/24 (very expensive, of course, but just hypothetically): you could go shopping at 03:00 and have the store to yourself. One can’t reduce crowding by reducing the size in time and space of the volume in which the crowd exists.