Delaware, Kansas, Oklahoma added to New York's quarantine order

[TexasTowelie]

ALBANY – Travelers from Delaware, Kansas and Oklahoma must self-isolate for 14 days upon arriving in New York, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Tuesday.

The announcement now makes visitors from 19 states subject to New York's quarantine order, which Cuomo enacted late last month to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in the Empire State as cases rise elsewhere across the country. The list is re-evaluated daily, and states are added when their positive test rate clocks in higher than 10 per 100,000 residents or 10 percent of the population, both on a seven-day rolling average.

Delaware is the first state that has been added to the list from the northeast. It is also the first state subject to the advisory that New York has worked with on reopening plans; Delaware is a member of the seven-state northeast coalition formed in April that meets once weekly to discuss economic revival strategies.

States such as Florida and Texas, some of the first states added to the travel advisory, have documented record coronavirus numbers over the past several weeks, with thousands of new patients daily. Meanwhile, numbers have continued to stay roughly the same in New York, with total hospitalizations still falling below 1,000 and fewer than 200 people staying in the ICU.

Read more: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Delaware-Kansas-Oklahoma-added-to-New-York-s-15391090.php
(Albany Times Union)

[jimfields33]

1. Delaware? 512 deaths and 12,000 positives.

Seems like 40 states are worse including New York.

[elleng]

3. 'states are added when their positive test rate clocks in higher than 10 per 100,000 residents

or 10 percent of the population, both on a seven-day rolling average.'

[elleng]

2. Sorry to hear that.

On December 7, 1787, Delaware became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and has since been known as "The First State".

[Rhiannon12866]

4. How are they enforcing this quarantine?

I've seen licence plates on cars from Florida, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama here in the Northeast in the past two weeks...

[TexasTowelie]

5. I'm not really certain.

Obviously, any vehicle coming into the state would draw scrutiny, but it would be an easy matter for someone to lie and say they have been staying inside the state for more than two weeks. They could also state the vehicle has been garaged inside the state for a period of time. Of course, the authorities could pursue the investigation and ask for hotel receipts or addresses of family members and friends.

Then there are the snitches...

[Rhiannon12866]

6. I suppose some could have summer homes here, but quarantine would still be required

And given the winters we have, it's much more likely for New Yorkers to spend winters in Florida ("snowbirds" ) than for those in Florida to come here. And since pretty much everything was shut down until recently and so many places are still closed and events canceled, I can't see that this is an ideal vacation spot. I don't think many places are these days, especially if you don't want to take chances...