Our area is over 70% elderly. It is one of the MOST resistant and non-compliant areas in the country in terms of not wearing masks, not locking themselves indoors, etc. People go out and about, a lot of sunlight and fresh air. Continuing their lives. Only some corporate stores and restaurants have "wear masks" signs. Many locally owned restaurants and stores refused to close down, refuse to follow the 25%, 50% seating rules etc. Because this is a tourist area that people travel to from around the state and USA - particularly since we did not close our beaches, shut everything down etc, there is "exposure" to people from everywhere too. I'd never seen as many tourists here when most of the country was ordered closed - including from major nearby Florida cities like Tampa. They flooded here then instead.
So this area should have astronomical covid-19 death rates, right? But we do not know anyone - or even know anyone who knows anyone - who has died of covid-19. Not one person. We ask often "do you know anyone who has died of covid-19?" The answer is always "no." However, the elderly and others continue to die otherwise as it normal - and likely more than normal as other medical care and examinations were ordered suspended to be ready for the mass covid-19 infections - that never came because people were NOT following the "maximize the spread of covid-19 edicts.
Just because the plutocrats making TRILLIONS off the shutdowns tell you something a million times 24/7 day after week after month after month after month thru the TV stations, newspapers and Internet outlets they own - banning any other opinions and fact-claims - doesn't make it true. But it does to most Americans who were indoctrinated by TV and now the Internet every minute of their life from birth.
Up until April of this year, it was ALWAYS advised for flu-like diseases to get outdoors in the sun and for fresh air. The BIG lie is the notion that it is irrelevant whether 1 covid-19 virus or 1,000,000,000 covid-19 virus get into your body - which is what happens when staying indoors and believing a piece of cloth and 6 foot distance protects you in a WalMart store that has 5,000+ customers a day.
EVERYONE inhales "lethal" virus by the millions with every breathe they take. The question is always a race against time. Can you body figure how to kill those virus before they kill you. The more lethal virus you inhale, the sicker you will get and may even lose the race - and then your life. Fresh air outdoors has a tiny fraction of viruses that compound indoors because of air flow and because sunlight slaughters viruses F A S T! The covid-19 rules are DESIGNED to infect as many people as possible - and to kill as many people as possible. It takes an IQ of 80 and the ability to actually being an independent thinking human to understand that.