What's your estimate of how much longer "shelter at home" will last?

[Demovictory9]

just in general, nationwide

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	2 more weeks
	1 (2%)
	1 more month
	5 (8%)
	6 more weeks
	7 (11%)
	2 more months
	27 (42%)
	3 more months
	10 (16%)
	4 more months
	4 (6%)
	remainder of year
	3 (5%)
	i have no idea
	7 (11%)
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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. As someone in a high risk group, I'll be sheltering at home until there is a vaccine

Thank goodness I am retired.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Me, too.

I'm not going out until there is a vaccine or at least an effective treatment and a whole lot of herd immunity.

[cayugafalls]

10. I just talked to my wife about this very fact.

I have to ride out the storm until there is a vaccine. So hand washing hands, gloves, mask, glasses are going to be my new normal if I go out in public. It feels weird, but I have to do it for my health.

Maybe it's overkill and I should just except my fate and allow nature to take it's course, but I have a strong will to live longer than 60 years, so I think I will try and see my son graduate college in a couple years.

Stay well.

[Demovictory9]

15. Our economy is going to have to adjust to so many people staying home to recover

[cayugafalls]

19. Agree. That has me worried, but I think we, at least, will be ok.

I know others who are my friends will have a hard time and I will do what I can to help, but I am already helping my dad who is 86 and lives in Florida, so money is tight.

There are so many people who will start losing everything if our government does not step in and help we could see some very rough times ahead.

[CatMor]

17. Me too ..

I am at high risk and will stay home as long as needed. I want to be around to see trump gone from the White House along with his family.

[customerserviceguy]

20. Same here

but there will be lulls between peaks that will be time to restock. But you're right, an effective vaccine is the only real answer to this.

[LenaBaby61]

30. THIS 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻

[Wounded Bear]

2. In a state that started it farily early, I picked 6 weeks...

and even that is hopeful more than being based on any numbers.

Since the red states have failed to conform, we will need to maintain longer until they flatten their curves or else, why bother? Just let it go like the libertarians want to.

[Initech]

3. I'd say by June we will start to return to some sort of normalcy.

But I wouldn't expect things like sports / concert venues and air travel to open back up until there's a vaccine or drugs developed. And that could take a while.

[uponit7771]

4. 3 months if we did everything perfect (link inside) like S Korea or Germany

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13230361

[unblock]

6. It won't be consistent

The company I work for can function with everyone working from home for quite some time, our clients are global and we communicate by phone and email anyway. So we'll be in no rush to get back to the office.

But other companies like restaurants or nail salons or casinos are more likely to reopen at the first opportunity, if only in some limited way.

End of May before some places reopen I think is pretty much the best case scenario.

Other areas that haven't even started to get hit might closed down later and stay shut until July or August.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. Depends on the state. Several don't have orders in place at all.

[True Blue American]

8. You are right

Depends on what happens.

[Celerity]

48. oh, they will when death comes to their red patches of hate, have no doubt of that

[beachbumbob]

9. minimum is 2 months and could out easily out to 6 months

the telling part will be testing to show who has anti-bodies to the virus as those people can go back to work and into public safely.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. Should last and will last are

Vastly different I am afraid

[NNadir]

12. Hopefully, not as long as I live...

...since that will involve dying sometime this year.

[Demovictory9]

14. I hope so too!

[a kennedy]

13. I swear to gawd, I AM NOT GOING TO MAKE IT PAST APRIL.

[mnhtnbb]

16. With Memorial Day holiday at end of May, I suspect the order won't be lifted until June.

Too many people would decide to celebrate a long weekend and we'd end up with another wave.

[Demovictory9]

18. I picture a big long rave like in one those Matrix movies

[frazzled]

21. I was watching some old movies yesterday

Mostly from the late 1930s to late 40s. And it hit me like a ton of bricks in a way it hadn't before, from our sheltered perch on the sixth floor of a building where we have been ensconced for over a month now. In the films, people were walking around on the streets, going into shops and department stores, hosting dinner parties, and going to dances. They were even dancing cheek to cheek, in public places!

I nearly couldn't believe it: I had forgotten already what "normal" life is, and could almost not fathom ever again being able to clink glasses with friends over dinner, or dine at a restaurant, or shop for (other than grocery) items at a store. What was life like before this happened, and what will it be like in the future? I can't imagine it, and can only barely recall. I was shocked to see these people from long ago leading lives that seemed like heaven to me. We have another Zoom cocktail hour this afternoon with friends, but that form of social gathering is starting to wear thin.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

34. I had the same thoughts, only about much more recent movies

and TV shows I've been watching on Netflix. Shows that were produced only last year - with people in restaurants and bars, going to parties, inviting friends for dinner, celebrating holidays and birthdays, going to weddings and funerals, attending concerts, all those things that were normal only a few weeks ago. I was in a concert on Feb. 23 and went to one on Feb. 29. And then it all stopped.

And I wonder when, if ever, we will be able to do those things again.

[Laffy Kat]

22. My prediction:The SaH will be lifted then reinstated due to a recrudescence. nt

[PufPuf23]

24. Bet you are correct.

When there are new outbreaks, hopefully there will be readily available tests and with time a vaccination.

More tests and understanding the virus may be the means to contain virus breakout loci unlike what has been allowed to occur now.

The time hunkered down varies as well with health risk factors of an individual where herd immunity is meaningless regards their outcome.

[pnwest]

33. wow, that is one fancy word! had to look that up....

and in my head I'm pronouncing it re-CRUD-escence, since we're all avoiding getting this crud.....

[Laffy Kat]

36. LOL.

FYI, it's re-crud-DES-cence. I was a medical transcriptionist for many years.



https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/recrudescence

[Demovictory9]

38. I thought it was a typo. lol

[pnwest]

39. I know, but it's funnier to put the emPHASis on that syLLABle. hehehe

[LizBeth]

23. I am feeling middle of June.

[Wednesdays]

25. There's going to be a big difference

between the time we "should" emerge from "stay at home, " and the time TPTB gives us the okay. Much to our peril.

[crickets]

44. I'm afraid you may be right. nt

[Sienna86]

26. Need testing to be totally available

Doesn’t look good right now

[dameatball]

27. I picked 6 weeks but I was just throwing darts. Should have read farther and said I don't know.

The thing is, at my age, I will be mostly following the guidelines for a long time, whether stay at home orders are still in effect or not. Only going to be venturing out when I think it is safe and not just because we have flattened the curve.

[sakabatou]

28. The last Starbucks I went to said 1 month

but I think it'll be longer than that.

[Ms. Toad]

42. That's how long their benefits have been extended.

For those of you who don't know:

*Workers who are on the job from now until 4/19 (I thought they extended through 5/1, but I can't find it) earn $3 more per hour.
*No one is required to work - if you choose not to you earn your regular pay x an average of the hours you were working prior to the crisis
*All workers get a free beverage and food item every day (even the ones who are staying at home)
*Even if you are not working, this time counts toward your 3-month period you have to work before you are eligible for benefits (like health insurance - which you have access to as long as you work 25 hours/week)

My daughter started working there March 1, after her prior employer went bankrupt. I have to say I'm pretty impressed by how they are treating their employees through this. When they started cutting back - I could easily have seen a new hire being dumped. But she's working 40 hours this week.

[gibraltar72]

29. Now do one on when he orders stay at home orders have to end.

[DeminPennswoods]

31. End of April

People just are not going to stay inside or at home when the weather warms up. I think there will be forebearance for those who don't feel safe, or for whom it isn't safe, to continue staying home, but otherwise, I see things starting to re-open the 1st of May.

[Squinch]

32. Till July.

[shanti]

41. Yup

I'm in California, and the projected end here, with zero new cases, is around July 4. But then there's the next wave to hit in the fall.

[WePurrsevere]

35. "Just in general"? I think it will depend on how well the majority of Americans...

actually STAY the flock at HOME and follow the friggin guidelines put out by WHO (NOT Trump and twits).

If everyone who was not absolutely essential would just sit tight we'd have a shot at being CAUTIOUSLY free in time to enjoy Memorial Day Weekend or at least the Summer. If not I foresee the numbers of those coming down with this slowing down a bit during the Summer, Trump declaring "Mission accomplished" and that everyone should get back to work and spending money to help the economy, and then because of his gross incompetence, lack of empathy and greed the numbers of those coming down with and dying from it will go zooming back up with a vengeance in the Fall.

I'd love nothing more than to be wrong about this but with Trump and his corporate owned soulless enablers in charge, even with some awesome governors like my own in NY, I fear this is a very real possibility.

[defacto7]

37. Will last or should last?

[meadowlander]

40. The first one will be at least two months.

Then likely to be a series of regional ones for a month or two each over the next 18 months to two years.

[sarcasmo]

43. 2-3 months because of idiot Governors like DeSantis.

[hunter]

45. Forever. This is just a preview of greater hits to come.

For a brief moment in history humans had some sort of world civilization.

Alas, it was unsustainable.

We might build a sustainable world civilization if we choose, but it won't be assholes like Trump or authoritarians of any sort who accomplish it.

Let's start listening to the people who are both kind and intelligent.

[Roland99]

46. Thru Memorial Day, minimally

Business slowly getting back to normal after 4th of July

But places like theme parks, theaters, etc will be even further delayed

[Quixote1818]

47. Even if we should go longer than 2 months I bet the political pressure will end much of it

by the end of May. The conspiracy folks, Wall Street, conservative business owners and some liberal business owners etc. will be ready to cause violence by then.

[EllieBC]

49. Depends on the levels of civil unrest.

At the end of the day people that cannot pay their bills or buy food aren't going to sit for months and months.