kbrn2002, ADN, RN 3,765 Posts Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis. Has 21 years experience. May 24, 2020 23 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:It seems to me that it's going exactly the way your judicial branch thought it should, with political leadership cut off at the knees and toothless while experiencing a void leadership from DC. How do you think it's going to proceed for your state?I wish I had a crystal ball sometimes. I live in a relatively small community of around 25000 but it is a border town in close proximity to a small city of around 80,000. The first day some salons opened one made the news for having over 170 walk-in appointments the first day with over half of those being from the city across state lines. I expect as more places open with minimal to no social distancing enforced those businesses that do have policies in place and try to enforce them will lose enough business to those places that don't that they will relax their requirements pretty quickly to get customers in the door.So far I am in a fairly unaffected area, very minimal positive COVID cases to this point. It is an area though that relies heavily on tourism dollars to thrive so if travel does pick up I expect that could change, especially as we have a fairly good size population of Summer people that come from large metropolitan areas in surrounding states. I have no idea how bigger cities are dealing with re-opening but in this smaller place it's been pretty much every business owner both small and large making up their own minds how they want to proceed and frankly I'm OK with that.
toomuchbaloney 10,834 Posts Specializes in NICU, PICU, Transport, L&D, Hospice. Has 44 years experience. May 24, 2020 1 hour ago, kbrn2002 said:I wish I had a crystal ball sometimes. I live in a relatively small community of around 25000 but it is a border town in close proximity to a small city of around 80,000. The first day some salons opened one made the news for having over 170 walk-in appointments the first day with over half of those being from the city across state lines. I expect as more places open with minimal to no social distancing enforced those businesses that do have policies in place and try to enforce them will lose enough business to those places that don't that they will relax their requirements pretty quickly to get customers in the door.So far I am in a fairly unaffected area, very minimal positive COVID cases to this point. It is an area though that relies heavily on tourism dollars to thrive so if travel does pick up I expect that could change, especially as we have a fairly good size population of Summer people that come from large metropolitan areas in surrounding states. I have no idea how bigger cities are dealing with re-opening but in this smaller place it's been pretty much every business owner both small and large making up their own minds how they want to proceed and frankly I'm OK with that. Here in the interior of Alaska, most people of the larger city and rural communities are serious about this. The community residents have FB pages where they identify the businesses which are taking good precautions to protect their customers. Those who demonstrate lax mitigation efforts are not getting as much business as a result, apparently. If your staff doesn't wear masks on the foodline, and that is advertised, fewer people want to but your takeout. Surprise!People here mostly understand that our small health system cannot handle a high percentage of Alaskans getting ill with this virus. There are some who have bought into the politicization and are making unpleasant noises, but they dont try to intimidate anyone with guns up here. The mask wearers are just as likely to have their S&W on their chest as the protesters.
