Not much around me, that's for sure. I'm personally doing my best to NOT catch the virus. The number of cases are starting to explode here.
Yeah, some rural counties have rather high per capita cases and / or deaths.
Near enough to here to be in the news, Graves County, KY, (557 sq. miles) has 89 cases out of a population of around 37k. (241.7 cases per 100k pop.) 10 fatalities. Next door, more densely populated McCracken County (268 sq. miles) has 31 cases out of about 66.7k pop. (46.5 cases per 100k pop.) 2 fatalities. Butler County (very rural, 431 sq. miles) has 98 cases out of about 13k pop. (750 cases per 100k pop.)
(Source = https://kygeonet.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/543ac64bc40445918cf8bc34dc40e334 )
Nationally @ present we have 928,364 cases out of 328.2 million pop (283 cases per 100k pop.)
I’d argue each county should be handled individually.
North of here we have a 20k acre state park with some 30 lakes & ponds on it sitting useless. Other smaller parks would be fine too as long as visitors practice social distancing & take halfway reasonable precautions.
I’m so sorry to hear that, Steve
Prayers up for you and your family