Meanwhile, in Oregon, per https://www.kptv.com/news/some-sher...a8666520-2b9e-11eb-aa68-47bca95d8d31.amp.html , it freaks me out that sheriffs actually have to say this (more about the restrictions here ), especially the week before T-Day:
I like Oregon, in part, because it's varied both naturally and in people; its image in the rest of the country, of 60s-style liberalism, isn't true in daily life. There are such people, including those who would rat on someone's social get-together, but I had thought these were balanced by many others who are much closer to the mainstream.
But this is just incredible to me, that law enforcement has to take this stand.
And yet, after this year's social unrest, I'm proud that they do.
Whew. Things are just so weird.
Hope it's better than this in the South! And I truly hope 2021 is going to be better.
I'm just drawing the line at making a physical arrest over someone having turkey dinner and there's three households there with seven people. I just draw the line there. . .We're going to evaluate the call . . . If it's just so and so was in, you know, Hoy's Hardware store without a mask, we're probably not going to do anything with that. But if it's we get a call of residents and they're having a party. We'll make contact with them, we'll talk about social distancing, wearing a mask all those important things that truly almost all Oregonians are doing anyways. . . But Yon says it is ultimately the individual's decision on whether they adhere to these health and safety measures.
"To me, it's what is our role in our community?" Yon said. "We are not the Gestapo, that's not what we're about."
I like Oregon, in part, because it's varied both naturally and in people; its image in the rest of the country, of 60s-style liberalism, isn't true in daily life. There are such people, including those who would rat on someone's social get-together, but I had thought these were balanced by many others who are much closer to the mainstream.
But this is just incredible to me, that law enforcement has to take this stand.
And yet, after this year's social unrest, I'm proud that they do.
Whew. Things are just so weird.
Hope it's better than this in the South! And I truly hope 2021 is going to be better.