I wonder how coronavirus will impact the census? Given the circumstances, sending a bunch of people to knock on a bunch of doors doesn't seem like a great idea...
Well, seeing as this is the first US Census in history where we expect the vast majority of the responses to come via a website rather than manual counting, it's an excellent coincidence.
Of course NRFU (Non-Response Follow Up) is still a manual process.
We can all help by filling out the census online when we get our letters in the mail. Note: they start arriving today (March 12, 2020)!
Plus there's already tales of paranoid anti-government people shooting at, assaulting, or killing census workers. That's going to get worse this year, I feel.
EDIT: I am not saying that all anti-government people are paranoid. Nor that all anti-government people are murderous, or mentally ill.
