To be clear, Athens, Georgia is not some sleepy little Southern town where the sidewalks get rolled up at 8:00 pm. It's a lively, vibrant college town, and I've come out of shows there well past midnight so find scores of pedestrians out on the streets, filling the patios in front of restaurants and bars, and cruising the streets.
To be sure, many of those pedestrians were college students, and most of them had already left town when classes at the University of Georgia were shut down, but the video still shows that people are, in fact, sheltering in place. New York is showing some signs that the rate of new infections is slowing down due to people self-isolating, China is now able to reopen some formerly shut-down precincts, and an influential model used to predict virus-related deaths was recently revised downwards - meaning fewer deaths - due to the effect of shelter-in-place rules.
It's grim right now, but the quarantine is working. Please stay at it people - our lives depend on you doing nothing.
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