I just talked to a friend to see how badly he was suffering in Month 4 of quarantine at his oceanfront estate in Maine (see “Your lockdown may vary”). How was society up there doing?
Our politicians say all the same things as politicians in Massachusetts. Compliance and enforcement are non-existent. So everyone is happy. Real estate prices are up 20 percent over last year with people fleeing New York and Massachusetts.
What about schools for the fall? The local public schools have not made any announcements and are not promising anything.
Nobody wears a mask, despite the governor’s orders?
You can predict the mask situation by the demographic of the store. If it is a hardware or auto parts store, nobody working or shopping there will be wearing a mask. If it is a high-end bakery, everyone will be masked.
(People love to compare Sweden to nearby Norway and Finland and draw conclusions about the dramatic effects of government policy. Maine, despite having a reasonable-sized city (Portland), has only 1/20th the plague death rate of Maskachusetts (stats). Yet nobody tries to compare government policy in Maine versus Massachusetts and use any difference as an explanation for the difference in death rate.)
Portland from the Robinson R44 last year:
