Of course, some of us never stopped hunkering down.
Courtesy of ADN:
Anchorage Acting Mayor Austin Quinn-Davidson on Wednesday ordered the city to return to a modified “hunker-down” state through December, imposing the most widespread economic closure the city has seen since former Mayor Ethan Berkowitz’s initial shelter-in-place order was issued in March.
Starting at 8 a.m. Tuesday and extending until Jan. 1, bars and restaurants will end in-house services and be restricted to takeout, delivery and outdoor dining only. Retail and other public-facing businesses, including gyms and salons, will be limited to 25% of their capacity, and retail businesses must be able to keep people from different household groups at least 6 feet apart. Personal-care businesses can no longer provide services like beard trimmings or facials that require a person to temporarily remove a mask.
Theaters, bingo halls and other indoor entertainment facilities will remain closed.
Quinn-Davidson said in a community briefing that since she took over as acting mayor in October, the Anchorage Health Department has warned that a hunker-down order could be needed to lower transmission rates. She said she has done everything she could to slow the virus while keeping businesses open, but the situation has gotten dire.
“Case counts have continued to break records, and our public health team lost its ability to keep up,” Quinn-Davidson said.
Quinn-Davidson was backed by public health experts supporting the new order.
I completely support Quinn-Davis in making this decision, I just wish our governor had the balls to make it statewide.
Our new cases are spiking at a truly terrifying level and we are very close to breaking 1,000 new cases a day.
Let me remind you that we only have a little over 700,000 people in the entire state, so a thousand cases a day is quite significant.
Yes most of them are popping up in Anchorage, but they are not all popping up in Anchorage, and of course, we are being infected by others from all around the state, and even from outside of the state.
I really have doubts that a month-long hunker down policy will be enough, but at least it is something.
When you’re “anchored down in Anchorage” (Michelle Shocked).
Sorry you’re going through that, Gryphen. If we’d all just masked up and stayed home back in March, this pandemic would have broken. 🙁 It’s been an eye-opener just how many stupid and selfish people live in the USA.
You are so right they won’t stay in Anchorage. The cases will start t o pop up all over your state as asymptomatic people move around esp after Thanksgiving. Your rural areas will be hit hard and fast and not know wtf happened.
There’s no “will stay in Anchorage” here. It is happening everywhere in Alaska.
Well isn’t that special, trump said if Biden wins the electoral college he will leave, isn’t that nice of him. Guess no one has the courage to explain how elections work in the USA.
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Inching toward exit, Trump says he’ll leave if Biden wins Electoral College vote
…Speaking to reporters on the Thanksgiving holiday, Republican Trump said if Democrat Biden – who is due to be sworn in on Jan. 20 – is formally declared the winner by the Electoral College, he will depart the White House.
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/att/biden-trump-plan-quiet-thanksgiving-110748800.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=1_11
Stay safe Gryph. It’s scary out there.
If only we’d take Dumpy’s advice and not test, there wouldn’t be a crisis.
Any wonder that he was seated at the children’s table yesterday?
but, but, but it is all a Democratic HOAX that will disappear after the election !!
I ATE DINNER WATCHING PBS NEWSHOUR. THE TEARS FLOWED ALMOST EVERY BITE. JUDY READ NAMES AND BIOS OF OUR LOST AMERICANS FROM ALLOVER THE UNITED STATES.
EVERY 2-3 DAYS ANOTHER 911.
Think of where we’d be if we had only followed New Zealand’s example.
But NO, and now he who shall not be named wants to take credit for a vaccine that still no one truly knows what will happen.
and don’t forget Jared the Dolt who was in charge of keeping all the PPE away from the states because it was “the Governments”.