Hey, @bashadow.
Yeah. I think getting out of the state and moving somewhere else where they aren't as restrictive would be good. Unless the virus is going to be around for a while, though, for longer than a year, I don't think we get out before it's over.
I would imagine Alaska would have one of the better responses. The west coast has had among the worst, and I imagine it gets worse before it gets better.
Here, nearly everyone is wearing a mask indoors. There might be some that will wander in without it, then realize at some point they're expected to be wearing it, and then put it on. It's a pain.
I don't have quite the diminished lung capacity, but I was told several years ago that I do have some scar tissue on one of mine that diminishes breathing (I don't know how much). I don't notice it mostly, but every now and then I feel something and wonder if that's it.
According to the DanMask study that was released a couple weeks back, there's only a 0.3% difference between wearing a mask and not as far as catching the virus is concerned, and that's only if the other protocols are also observed. If the mask isn't fitting properly or something else is routinely ignored, the difference might go up. Even so, we're talking 1.8% and 2.1% chances of catching it.
Of course, that study is being dismissed, even though it's more of a scientific study than the ones being touted.
I would imagine in your neck of the woods with as many open spaces and sparser populations that it would be more difficult to spread as long as people are avoiding going to concerts and so forth where the superspreader events can take place.
I guess Anchorage has had some west coast syndrome responses to the Virus, but Alaska's biggest response as a state I can think of was the 14 day mandatory quarantine for people entering the state. In the area I live pretty much life as normal with a few exceptions.
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