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No camping at this time and the list has 80 parks out of 177 total and they are mostly minor small parks. However many beach side parks are on the list. I have heard that camping will reopen starting May 14th and the reserveamerica site is taking reservations from that date on the one park I checked. I also saw that someone is saying that Texas COE parks are reopening for camping in May.

The list Rather strange list, I think they excluded any parks that have a campground because none of the major parks near us are open. But it looks like most beach parks w/o camping are open.

OK, OP here. I have to confess that I looked into this more in depth and found there was a Supreme Court case where some out of state hunters challenged Montana's hunting license fees. The court decided that recreational activities do not fall under this constitutional provision. So my complaint is just wrong.

NOTE THIS WAS THE CASE WHEN THIS WAS POSTED BUT THAT IS NO LONGER TRUE The governor of Arkansas has announced that the state parks will reopen, but only to State Residents. This is clearly unconstitutional. What next out of state tolls on state roads, triple fuel tax at the pumps? A letter to that governor would be a good idea from the Escapees Parks update

Let me suggest one free: Free Camp Sites and one not free: RV Trip Wizard. Both will show you many free stopping places, RVTW is also the best, in my opinion, available trip planning software available now. There are several other free and pay resources but those are the ones I use.

Parks status discussed This sounds somewhat positive but nothing decided apparently.

Take a look at this article from Slate: Go Outside Seems like a good argument for reopening the state parks and campgrounds

North Florida. Private cg are open here and taking people and so is GA so far as I know plus their state parks are open. WY, NE, SD and ND never imposed lockdowns in the first place. AZ parks are open but look like they are full. Don't assume the extreme examples of some governors apply to the whole country. Do some checking.

Plus it's a mystery whether Canada will open it's borders. Not sure if you can transit right now.

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I saw an article yesterday that was very interesting, if you split the NYC+ surrounding areas off from the rest of the US you will find that thge NYC area would be number one in the world. That's ignoring the Chinese lies. And the entire rest of the US drops out of the top ten to number thirteen. So that bar graph reflects what is happening in NYC not the rest of the country. And recall this, most big media outfits are in NYC so all this doom and gloom comes from people living inside that plague center. NYC skewing the rest of the country TN, GA and SC have just announced they are opening back up.

I just read an article from a major vaccine developer warning that we may never see a WuFlu vaccine. After all the common cold is a coronavirus and we know how vaccine development has gone with that. There are lots of viruses with no vaccines. So maybe we will see one and maybe we won't. Ebola is a whole different class of viruses and I'm not certain but I think they came up with some material that was worth a human trial fairly fast. I believe the epidemic faded before they had a chance to fully test them. As for plans, I've been working with RVTW the last couple of nights. Hard to make plans with the uncertain situation right now. Ideally I'd like to take off in mid-May. My wife works for the schools and they are now closed for the rest of the year. Right now I'm thinking Cloudland SP in GA for our first park followed by a couple of SP in TN, if they are open: Rock Island, daytrip to Burgess Falls and Cumberland Mountain. We would probably hit some mountain parks in NC but that state is a complete unknown. TN is at least saying they plan to start opening. After that a run over the Mammoth Cave. We've been there multiple times but since we are doing more hiking I noticed that they have a lot of interesting hikes including some to lesser known caves. The first time I went to that park the tour took you down to the underground river and had a short boat ride. For whatever reason that was dropped years ago. After that I don't know, maybe across to the National Grassland in KS. We will be doing more COE parks in the east; and boondocking especially out west. Of course our original plans included the Escapade, and I think they jumped the gun on cancelling that. But maybe not.

We had UV-C light wands in the lab and they are not for casual use. You need to wear special protective eyewear and longer exposure will give you skin burns. I'm not sure what use it would be anyway you could not use it on your body and it has a short range in air and would seem like it would be not good for air sterilization. It can be used to sterilize water but only in a special setup where the water is run in a thin layer under the UV-C lights. It also generates ozone in the air which is not good for you either. I have a short wave UV light here at home but it is for detection of fluorescent minerals in the field and that is the only home use that I know of.

Here is some late breaking news: Yahoo News

FoxNews has most of it and I used google search for the states they did not mention but were possible(the blue colored states). No reason to search the left coast or most of the NE.

Took me 5 minute in Photoshop.

So far as I can tell this is the current map of states plans, yellow: stay closed green: open in stages over the next several weeks blue: can't make their minds up I may have VT and NH swapped, who can tell which is which after all? VT plans to open

You lost me here you need to define your terms, like American Method. Just what is that. All testing when properly done follows statistical methodology which is standardized. You would almost never see 100% of a large population tested for anything. You test a subset, trying to pick a representative sample of the population at whole. That is often quite difficult. And after testing your subset you apply statistical methods which will give you the estimated error rate. A larger sample will give you a smaller error than a smaller sample of the population. Neither one of these tests is anything but quick and dirty with large error bars. And there is another test in the NE also quick and dirty that got 29% but don't quote me on that I'm not sure of the numbers. As for the German test, the first report that I saw said that they tested about 75% of a town's population of 17,000 or so. Even with Germans how could you sample that many people in a small town? That would be an extreme sample size. But I just saw a second report that says they tested 500 people out of the town, which sounds more likely. That smaller number should be good, statistically, if it was a representative sample. Not people responding to a FB advert for example which gives you a terrible sample. The NYC sample was 200 people taken off the street in one NYC neighborhood. That is better but still hardly representative of a city of, what, 13,000,000 (not sure of the population)

And here is more info from another early set of tests: "Around a third of participants in a Massachusetts study tested positive for coronavirus, according to researchers. The Mass. General study took samples from 200 residents on the street in Chelsea, MA. Participants remained anonymous and provided a drop of blood to researchers, who were able to produce a result in ten minutes with a rapid test." article

Neither did WY or SD and they are on the list. But this is early days and that list will firm up over the next week or so. UT did have a policy of using the Alert system to notify drivers entering the state that they had to fill out a Health Survey. That drew major negative feedback and they dropped that scheme.

I noticed Utah is not on the list.

You lost me here.

Don't know where you get your info but they are just starting to do antibody testing, that shows who has had the WuFlu. In Contra Costa County CA people were tested using an extremely stupid testing selection of FB users. They were heavily over selected for white females but still found 3 to 4% of the population had the WuFlu many did not know that they had it. In NYC they did more representative testing and found 34% of the city population had had the plague. About half reported having at least one symptom the rest never knew. Both of these tests only tested a small portion of the population. You can expect many more results in the coming weeks since the antibody test was just approved recently. And there was that German town where they tested 75% of the population and found 15% were infected. The actual fatality rate may be as low as seasonal flu. The response to this information has surprised me, I expected about half and half: negative, we are all going to die vs enthusiastic "whoopee we can go camping again"

Late April or early May: List