Now you can get non emergency medical and dental appointments and surgeries. Veterinarians can do spays and neuters again. The spay neuter clinic in Salem is doing a slow opening. I snagged five appointments at their first community cat clinic the 15th. It will be a small number of cats they do that day they said and you stay in your car and they take the cats in, same at pick up.
I became extremely exited to get just five reservations ten days from now. Ha!
A few state parks are opening tomorrow and day use at others will resume in a few more days.
Counties can open if they meet certain guidelines. Like fewer covid hospitalizations than would be normal this time of year for seasonal flu. Like testing capacity. Like plenty of PPE. Our county meets those guidelines now. We have had 91 test positive in this county and 7 deaths but no one is hospitalized with the virus currently at all, in this county or the county across the river.
So I figure very very soon we will be back to fairly normal life here.
I'm very happy about that. However that doesn't mean I won't be super careful and probably will be for a long time. I will likely wear a mask for months when I go to the grocery store for instance and continue going only every couple of weeks. I can't see changing my habits now because I like my new habits.
Our governor has been very prudent and practical in what closed and what didn't have to close and now in re opening guidelines. I like that. We never did completely shut down like other places did and our numbers remain quite low anyhow. Most of our state is extremely rural however and sparsely populated and most people drive where they want to go in cars since we have very limited public transportation in most of the state. Because of the time of year, people did not congregate places anyhow really because you'd be doing so in pouring rain.
We have been lucky here. I suppose pouring rain may have helped.
Here is a glimpse into the stats for Oregon as of today. It surprises me that 50% of Oregon cases involved folks 50 and under.
Ages: Of the state’s known cases,1,419 people, or about 50%, are under age 50, state figures show. Another 472, or about 17%, are over 70.
Hospitalizations: At least 622 of the state’s COVID-19 patients, or 22%, have been hospitalized at some point during their illness, according to the Oregon Health Authority. Twenty-five people with confirmed or suspected cases of the disease are currently on ventilators.
Recoveries: The Oregon Health Authority on Tuesday said it had reviewed the cases of 2,633 people who have survived the illness. Of those, 1,125, about 43%, are considered recovered and 821, or about 31%, are not.
We are moving to a slow opening up too - I hope not prematurely.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that your State refused to open up until the 'conditions' had been met. It seems from here that many States just opened up regardless.
Yeah the governor has been quite clear about the opening guidelines and reasons for them. That doesn't mean we don't have the rebel freakazoid faction, who want to do the opposite of anything a democratic governor advises, out of hatred for Democrats. Like spoiled children.
DeleteThey still do not "get" that the virus is non political by nature.
DeleteI wonder if the relatively high figure for young people might be because of your sparse older population and a much younger demographic in the quite densely populated Portland? You governor has done well. Thank goodness #45 only had limited power over what states did.
ReplyDeleteYou're probably right, Andrew. #45 needs a mental evaluation and some medication, sadly.
DeleteLike you, with your state governments decisions, I feel fortunate to live in Ohio. ~nods~ My husband took our car in for a replacement part and said every single person wore masks, unlike the last time. Stay safe, my dear, and congratulations on getting spay/neuter appointments. :)
ReplyDeleteThat's good your state has good guidelines also and wise people. Thanks on the spay neuter reservations!
DeleteCongrats on those reservations!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm excited!
DeleteI’m in Texas, which is opening up faster than any other state. People say it’s a bad idea. Well just have to find out I guess. People are getting fined and arrested for operating their small businesses, just trying to put food on the table. If the outbreak gets worse here because of opening up, then there is going to have to be some kind of universal welfare payment.
ReplyDeleteThere have not been fines here or arrests. Guess our police aren't into that, too busy probably. I hope there are not more outbreaks with most states opening up. That would be terrible and since many people never did get unemployment, with systems overloaded, yes people need to make some money to pay rent and eat.
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