Day 46: 2020 Pandemic, Check Your State and County. How Far Are You From A Hospital?

26 April 2020 (imported to correct account and more important than ever)

My wife and I have been looking to move for a while now. For the first time, even before this pandemic, one of the considerations we had was distance to a good hospital; we can live anywhere and we’d find these beautiful houses in some small town for what we consider not much money, but then we’d look at where the nearest hospital was and . . .

We’re spoiled here in Knoxville. We live five minutes from the huge UT Medical Center. There are two other hospitals also five minutes away and several more in town. I was so fortunate to get my surgery at the Tennessee Valley Eye Center with a superb doctor even while in lockdown.

We’ve also been very fortunate in the timing of the pandemic as the students at UT had school attendance dissolved while they were on spring break. Their not coming back certainly spared the city a huge outbreak. Compared to Nashville and Memphis, our numbers is pretty decent although cases are starting to go up, not plateauing or declining.

One of first thing in the Area Study at the start of my Survival Guide is to examine how close we are to things like hospitals, fire stations, police stations, military posts, etcetera as well as…