Been noticing more traffic on the road? Well, you aren’t alone out there any more. Here is data from Apple on driving, walking, and transit.
As you can see, driving is getting back close to normal. Transit is far, far behind likely to do NYC and other big East Coast cities.
Overall, you can see that people are not staying at home nearly as much any more.
One of the largest states to reopen – Texas – continues to see an increase in the number of new cases per day.
In fact you can see that out side of April 9, the last 4 days have represented the highest new cases per day.
The questions are a. will this trend continue? and b. Do political leaders care? If it does and they do, this will have serious repercussions for our economic recovery.
More generally, it seems that the US has many people that are social distanced out. Even in the hardest hit areas – NJ and NY – people are going out as soon as they can.