healthcare (9)
Care rationing - groups of people ignored and left to fend for themselves (confirmed 4/4 - NYC Cardiac Arrest Sufferers and NYC )
Government aggressively growing healthcare capacity (confirmed - hospital
ships)
Healthcare practitioners posting China and Italy-like stories about
how bad it is here in the US (confirmed 3/26 - NYC)
Hospitals overflowing and turning away patients (confirmed - NYC)
Hospitals/doctors give up on testing prospective Coronavirus patients (confirmed 3/21 - Los Angeles and multiple cities and states)
Tent hospitals deployed to treat Coronavirus patients (confirmed 3/26 - NYC)
Quarantine centers deployed to hold Coronavirus patients (confirmed 3/21 - Javits
Center NYC)
Widespread shortage of protective equipment for healthcare workers (confirmed 4/1 - Multiple locations )
Widespread shortage of ventilators (confirmed 3/26 - NYC)
government (40)
Government closes down road access to cities (confirmed 5/3 - New Mexico )
40 States issue stay at home orders (confirmed 4/4 - Map )
All 50 states under disaster declaration (confirmed 4/14 - USA )
Canadian border closed
Citizens arrested for violating stay-in-place order (confirmed 3/28 - Hawaii )
Government bans blowing leaves (confirmed 4/12 - NY, NJ )
Government bans travel between residences (confirmed 4/10 - Michigan )
Government checkpoints implemented (confirmed 3/28 - multiple states )
Government commandeers medical supplies from private citizens and businesses (confirmed 4/3 - New Jersey )
Government drone-based monitoring to enforce shelter-in-place order
(confirmed 3/23 – California)
Government Emergency Broadcast System invoked (confirmed 3/29 - New Mexico
Government forces citizen to remove personal social media posts about Coronavirus (confirmed 4/18 - Wisconsin )
Government implements community Coronavirus-positive citizen tracking collective (confirmed 4/4 - Massachussets )
Government mandates business employees wear masks (confirmed 4/18 - Pennsylvania )
Government mandates citizens wear masks under penalty of severe fines (confirmed 4/3 - Laredo, Texas )
Government mandates Coronavirus-related public walking patterns (with fines) (confirmed 4/10 - Boston )
Government-ordered Curfew (confirmed - Hoboken, NJ)
Government orders Coronavirus-positive citizens to isolate and wear monitoring devices (confirmed 4/4 - Louisville )
Government providing food and supplies to citizens due to Coronavirus (confirmed 3/28 - multiple states )
Government requests citizen reporting on social distancing violations (confirmed 4/18 - New York City )
Government testing temperatures for everyone entering government facilities (confirmed 4/10 - Santa Rosa, CA )
Local roads or highways closed (confirmed 3/26 - Maui, Hawaii)
Mexican border closed by US or Mexico
Municipalities threaten arrest and imprisonment for visiting them (confirmed 4/7 - Colorado )
Other countries send aid to the US (confirmed 4/1/ - Russia )
Police pull over citizens in cars with out of state tags, with no probable cause (confirmed 4/4 - Delaware )
Police stop enforcing certain laws / do not make arrests for
low-level
crimes (confirmed 3/23 – Philadelphia and other municipalities)
Senior Government officials diagnosed with Coronavirus (confirmed - multiple
members of Congress)
"Stay in place" order for at least 500,000 people (confirmed - multiple cities and states)
Supreme Court suspends activity (confirmed 4/3)
Suspension of civil liberties (confirmed - Champaign, IL by decree)
Suspension of elections (confirmed - multiple democratic state primary
elections)
Suspension of individual tax payments (confirmed - now Jul 15)
Suspension of mortgage payments
Whole-state quarantine (confirmed - California, New York, Illinois)
Government stops sharing Coronavirus statistics
Martial law (at any scale)
UN Abandoned in NYC
Washington DC shut down (US Capital)
Widespread public flash testing of people’s temperatures
impact (36)
50,000 Coronavirus deaths in the US (confirmed 5/1 - current )
Funeral homes overwhelmed by Coronavirus deaths (confirmed 4/30 - NYC )
Retail workers work in plastic containment tents (confirmed 4/30 - Philadelphia )
100 Coronavirus deaths in a day in the US (confirmed 3/23)
1,000 total Coronavirus deaths in the US (confirmed 3/26)
1,000 total Coronavirus deaths per day in the US (confirmed 4/4)
10,000 Coronavirus deaths in the US (confirmed 4/7)
2,000 total Coronavirus deaths per day in the US (confirmed 4/10)
25,000 Coronavirus deaths in the US (confirmed - 4/14)
5,000 Coronavirus deaths in the US (confirmed 4/3)
A US airline ceases operation due to Coronavirus (confirmed 4/4 - multiple )
Aliens leaving the US go back to/through Mexico (confirmed 4/10 - multiple )
Coronavirus infections in all 50 states
Coronavirus infections in the US military (confirmed - 67 as of 3/20)
Coronavirus-related crime - widespread attacks on homes and businesses (Chicago and San Francisco 4/10)
Large numbers of people locking down / self-isolating
Local barricading (confirmed 3/26 - Maui, Hawaii and others)
Local retail establishments close @ scale (not chains) (confirmed -
1,000+ restaurants, gyms, spas, etc.)
Mass closing of retails stores (temporary or permanent) (confirmed - Nike, Macys, many others)
Mass "flash" infections (confirmed 3/26 - 90+ residents in a NJ nursing home)
Numerous high profile celebrities get Coronavirus
Places of religious worship (churches, synagogues) closed (confirmed 3/29 - NYC and others)
Police forces debilitated by Coronavirus (confirmed 3/28 - Detroit and others)
Potent, concentrated and deadly clusters (e.g., homeless, prisons)
Private businesses run Coronavirus tests on their workers (confirmed 4/10)
Problems with processing/disposal of bodies (volume) (confirmed 3/26 - NYC)
Stock market drops 30% from its high (DJIA closes at or below 20,685 - chart )
Suspension of Funerals (confirmed 3/26 - Washington state)
Universities significantly modify their admissions standards due to Coronavirus (confirmed 4/7 - UNC )
Widespread Coronavirus infections in a correctional facility (confirmed 4/7 - Louisiana )
Widespread preparation for civil unrest (confirmed 4/3 - New York City )
Wild animals appearing in urban areas (confirmed 3/28 - San Francisco and others)
100,000 Coronavirus deaths in the US (current )
Civil unrest (e.g., local riots)
Fallover deaths in public - people simply dropping and dying (pending 4/3 - NYC )
Private businesses run tests on its customers (pending )
infrastructure (6)
A major US airport shuts down (minor airport - temporary closure )
All international air travel to/from the US is shut down
All US domestic air travel is shut down
Local utilities fail (water, power, Internet, or mobile)
Significant communications breakdown (e.g., TV, mobile, news, etc.)
Stoppage of deliveries (e.g., Amazon, FedEx, UPS, USPS) - pending
personal (6)
A colleague is confirmed to have Coronavirus
A direct family member is confirmed to have Coronavirus
A friend is confirmed to have Coronavirus
A relative is confirmed to have Coronavirus
People need to tap into their emergency food
Someone you know has died because of Coronavirus