[CheshireTheCat]

Thanks for the explanation. Keep us posted.

So I take it a handful of people are trying to make the connection between the Sunday fundraiser and the Monday case reports but most people are more rational?

Couldn’t the elderly woman have picked up the ‘rona in Seattle?

I have never been to Alaska or known an Alaskan, but my suspicion is that they are more rational than the average American.

[Chuckster]

Couldn’t the elderly woman have picked up the ‘rona in Seattle?

Certainly.

Thing is, until last week, there had been only three dozen positive test results among local residents and only half a dozen patients presenting symptoms since March of 2020. No one had been hospitalized until this week. The two people that were admitted to our local clinic were admitted as a precaution due to their vulnerability, not to their condition.

Since this whole thing began, Petersburg has counted one death - an old man who went to Seattle to enter hospice care, contracted the disease and died. We now have two hospitalizations to count toward our COVID score and our total positive test count has doubled!

yay

[Chuckster]

I have never been to Alaska or known an Alaskan, but my suspicion is that they are more rational than the average American.

In my experience, common sense does seem to be a bit more common up here. Mistakes hurt more in Alaska.