There's a rapid and interesting shift. People who used to not take this thing seriously are beginning to take it more seriously. At first they were like, live your life and wash your hands. Now, they'll tell you, it's time to back off and take care of yourself.
A lot of people, I think, have a hard time keeping their kids at home, or keeping out of the bar, or even keeping out of Allsup's. You're going to go in to those places, if that's your habit, because it's too hard not to. And this, in my opinion, means we are probably spreading it around as we speak.
New Mexico has gone steadily upward, 13 to 19, 23 to 26, now 31. In some parts of the country, testing has been unavailable for a few weeks, so numbers are vastly higher. We never had that many to start with, and we don't have all that many people, but I think we're doing better than most with the testing. You test, you get to know who has it and you keep track of who they've been around.
But one of the surprising things, none yet in southern New Mexico. Alamo, none. Cruces, none. Cloudcroft, none. People are beginning to feel invincible. Believe me, we're not. People come through here. They get out of their cars or motor homes, and breathe. It's only a matter of time.
One place to keep your eye on is Texas. They don't believe in mobilizing the state to prevent the spread. They haven't shut the schools; they believe it's every county's responsibility to just take care of their own. But this, combined with a lack of testing, means that Texas has maybe ten times what they know about. A lot of people are walking around with it.
And that's bad news for us, because we're on the road out of Texas.
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