Stay at home order closing STRs - tourists go home

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So do I but it did not work

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Anyone arriving in Alaska, or arriving in an Alaskan community from another Alaskan community, MUST go into mandatory 14 day quarantine. Our city govt has a $500 fine for violations, and cops ARE enforcing. Not many folks want to end up in jail where they are far more likely to get infected with much poorer medical care.

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Most of the times you can just delete the cookies for the site that’s blocking you.

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I find deleting cookies to be an annoying time consuming strategy and I try to avoid doing it too often. I understand the privacy concerns other folks have, I just don’t have them. My strategy works well for me and is very easy, thanks though. I’m sure your comment will help someone.

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Ours in WV did not restrict STRs, but folks in our small town are super paranoid and think people are coming here to escape and will buy up our groceries and swamp our medical systems. It’s been a bit scary with some of FB rants and haters of “foreigners”.

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Until you need really good medical care only available in larger cities.

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That’s not paranoia, it’s a very likely scenario.

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Some states are asking retired or nurses like me who aren’t bedside to return to help care for the masses as this virus peaks.

A friend who works bedside told me that all vacation time off has been cancelled for her team for the next 2 months maybe longer.

I had a cancellation for dates in May who is a Deputy Sheriff and EMT first responder. Time off requests have been cancelled,

The race is on to engage anyone who can do any level of patient care.

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If I lived in a metropolitan area, I would want to escape for the next few weeks too.

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With Telemedicine and easily shared medical records like rural care is becoming more sophisticated.

With valid websites like NIH (National institute of Health) we have easy access to information.

Yes there are times seeing a specialist or access to specialized equipment is needed. As technology races the gap between rural and urban health care is closing.

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Lemme know the next time you can telemedicine a
ventilator.

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But your small town is correct, people travelling from more contaminated areas do bring the virus with them, so they are right to be concerned @KarenWV

They also become a burden on smaller health system not equipped to cope.

Having haters is never good, but any area should be preventing movement and practising social isolation if you want to minimise the risk of the virus spreading in your community.

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You misunderstood.

I live in a big city, ranked 22 in size in the US. If one counts our sister city of Juarez MX which is directly adjacent across the international border and Las Cruces, NM we have 2 million people within a radius of 60 miles from my house.
We have hospitals and a medical school.

Leaving the city on the major highways out of town, I’m 5 hours from Tucson, 4 from Albuquerque, 6 from Lubbock, 8 from San Antonio, and 9 from Ft. Worth.

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Ok, the way you said it made it sound like you were
5 miles from ANY big city or urban area. My bad.

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@Helsi and @muddy I agree that people moving anywhere at this point is a risk, but the concern seems to be laser focused on STRs. They aren’t complaining about our hotels and motels being open nor do they seem to be concerned that family members may travel from out of state and stay with local residents.

We are w/i 20 minutes of 3 other states and many of our residents have essential jobs outside of our state. Those folks are still required to commute back and forth each day. Many of our residents regularly shop in 2 other states and have continued to do so. The concern is not around spread related to these activities, but specifically to the existence of STRs.

The vast majority of the STRs in our town are blocked through the month of April and many into mid-May.

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This was in the original passage. Why was your comment necessary?

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i want to do the same but I have existing bookings through June. Did you have bookings in place? Airbnb advises I ask my guests to cancel but it feels weird putting the onus on the guests.

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Interesting. Article in newspaper with the headline “Hoteliers discuss mandated closings”
“ We’re kind of screwed”. Myrtle Beach area hotel owners react to coronavirus shutdown

It needed to happen. Yes they are screwed. I hate it for everyone having closures and lost jobs.

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Trevor Noah clip on banning tourists

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@KarenWV you are still able to offer accommodation for key workers and can do this through Airbnb.

In the UK no STR accommodation - hotels, STRs, second homes, camping etc is allowed unless for local key workers.

I agree lockdowns only work if they apply to all.

We are all going to have to change our behaviour.

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