All Apple Stores in China Will Be Reopened by Friday

One would hope that this is a timeframe that will be followed everywhere else. China's first case was around New Year's. Now here we are, in March...and it has slowed down big time there and they can start to get back to normal. What it COULD mean...is that while this may be a rough few months for other countries...all we have to do is make it through and we could get ourselves somewhat back to normal. Let's hope, people. A few months. We can do it!!!

There are some variables between China and the United States that make it less clear-cut than “a few months there means a few months here.” China locked people in their homes and fought hard to restrict COVID-19 to the Hubei province to the extent possible. As for the U.S., the virus is already widespread in multiple highly populated states, and good luck convincing the federal government to ever dare try locking residents in their homes. State governments, far more strapped for cash than the federal government, have been forced to take the initiative on COVID-19 in the face of a federal government that didn’t start caring until far too late.

Given the factors unique to the U.S., I’d hazard a guess that it’ll take somewhere around 6 months at least to either fully adjust to a new normal or return to an old normal…and that could be optimistic. The disease’s spread outside densely populated areas is going to be slow but especially painful, I fear, owing to the state of rural health care in the United States.

Meanwhile, we have a fraction of cases but everything is shutting down.. People are climbing over each other at Costco for hand sanitizer, water, and toilet paper. 'Merica.

If we were actually testing people at the rate other countries are, we’d most likely have far more confirmed cases. It’s a shame that the federal government is more concerned with controlling the narrative than gathering accurate information.

The Ohio Department of Health estimates that as many as 100,000 Ohioans could be carrying the virus.

Seems premature. All it takes one person to get sick in the wrong place and the whole circle starts all over again, no? It’s not like you are immune once you had it

Lol, China is like "we have less than 15 cases per day"....suuuuure.

Nice! When all the Apple stores in the US close, it's comforting to know I can fly to China to get another iPhone case in a different color.

One would hope that this is a timeframe that will be followed everywhere else. China's first case was around New Year's. Now here we are, in March...and it has slowed down big time there and they can start to get back to normal. What it COULD mean...is that while this may be a rough few months for other countries...all we have to do is make it through and we could get ourselves somewhat back to normal. Let's hope, people. A few months. We can do it!!!

I'm trying to work out what this means. Is Apple being premature in reopening stores because it doesn't want to miss out on profits? Or does it now believe the virus has got to everyone in the country and susceptible people will have died or developed an immunity?

It’s a business decision. Nothing else