We don’t have a stoplight in our county. Unless you count the flashing red stoplight in our second largest town where two state highways intersect. Our largest town has a population of just over 2000. Next biggest is 550 (where the confirmed cases of Covid are.) We are a farming community, right on the border of S.D. Many of the people in town are retired.Ok, you made me curious when you posted your county's population. I was surprised to discover my county has a total population of 19,000 in 888 sq. miles. Of course most of that population is concentrated in the southeast corner of the county where our only "city", the one with a stop light (actually has 2 now because of the highway bypass) which is our county seat and located in the "potato flats" (ancient glacial lake bed where the potato farms are located. )
And that is the scariest thing. When an ambulance is called, there are specific questions that dispatch will ask. Based on the answers to those questions, the crew will don their PPE (basically a hazmat suit), or they won’t. BUT - if a patient is asymptomatic, they can be exposed without knowing it. One crew that works for the same company as my son has already gotten a call telling them that a patient they picked up the week before had since tested positive. The patient had no symptoms when the crew picked them up, so no extra PPE. That crew is now in quarantine. So every time my son comes here after working his two or three day shifts, we’re taking a chance. He will quarantine in their apartment (wife and kids would stay on the farm with us) if he has a known or suspected exposure, gets the call his coworkers did or doesn’t feel well.I guess the reality is that no area is going to be spared. One of the big problems is the non symptomatic carriers who are not aware that they are infected.