What is the current sentiment on the pandemic like in California, given that they've been on lockdown for the longest? Are people getting antsy? Is there an "index" that measures sentiment across different states?
"Lockdown" is perhaps a misleading description. The restrictions on private gatherings are entirely unenforced, and everyone I know has long since started having whatever gatherings they personally feel they need.
Thinks are very different here in Seattle. No one I know is gathering with anyone indoors. You might have a couple friends over and stay outside, but indoor gatherings with multiple people are shocking insanity and just wouldn't happen.
Exactly. I wish people would stop referring to the feeble efforts the states implemented as "lockdowns". It's an absurd word to use. There were no lockdowns in the USA. There were a bunch of half-assed "Stay At Home" orders, which may as well have been called Stay At Home Suggestions because they were largely ignored. Nothing was locked. Nobody was locked in their homes. Few people, if any, were even subject to enforcement actions. Everywhere you looked during the so-called "lockdown" people were out and about, horsing around, going to parties, trying desperately to maintain business as usual, flexing their freedom just because. Every single place that the government begged people to not go, people went, saying "Nyaa Nnyaa! You can't tell me what to do!" Total eight-year-old mentality. The whole thing was a complete farce. Please, people, stop calling it a lockdown.
It might be helpful to look at Google mobility trends; I know that there was 'shutdown fatigue' almost everywhere (according to GMT).