In every state, people started staying home before stay-at-home orders were issued.
Louisiana streets — like these in New Orleans — emptied out well before the governor issued a stay-at-home order.A favorite new debate taking place around the Twitter hearth is whether complying with social distancing guidelines is a partisan statement in and of itself. Blue states, such as Washington and New York, were initially hit hardest by the COVID-19 crisis, and stay-at-home orders went into effect as early as March 19 .
If defying social distancing orders were really a political statement, you’d think that the southeast would be a hotbed for dissent. Yet people in the six states we examined changed their behavior around mid-March, before the states’ official stay-at-home orders. In fact, about 90 percent of the total change between early March and mid-April had occurred in the weekThat’s more or less in line with the country at large, as you can see in the chart below.
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