WA Residens Who Refuse Covid-19 Test Not Allowed To Leave Home For Groceries

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Good, Linguini, and make sure nobody dies. That ought to be a good night's dinner. Next question comes from Natalie with King Fire. Governor Bear, just how realistic is this with contact tracing? We know the state's already having trouble dealing with employment claims. How can you expect to start reaching out to people who may have been exposed? And then a second question for you. What would it be any if the current plan to allow drive-ins to open? I can't give you a specific answer. I've taught my head on drive-ins. So I'm trying to get back to you on that on the specific on drive-in theaters. Your question about how we can do this, the reason we can do the contact tracing is twofold. Number one, we stood up an army and sort of speaker a fire brigade. I think if this is a COVID-19 brigade, it's a brigade. It's a brigade, it's kind of like a fire brigade. When you have a fire in your house, you call the fire department. They come and put out the fire. We want to do the same thing for COVID. And we now have 1,399 people who on just a couple days notice can be available to do what's necessary to do this contact tracing. Do what's necessary to do this contact tracing. The question comes from Mayor with a pack of life. I've got an area of contact tracing. How are you guys going to handle people or families who under a few tests store to sell isolate? If they want to leave their home to get groceries, then they said they can't do that. How will you make sure they don't? Well, that's why I refer to the family support personnel. We will have attached to the families of family support person. We'll check into with them to see what they need on a daily basis. See how they're doing, see how they're ferrying. And help them if they can't get a friend to do their grocery shopping. We will help get them groceries in some fashion. If they need pharmaceuticals to be picked up, we can help make sure that they get their pharmaceuticals. So that's why we want to provide them some family support. Now, obviously, it'd be very nice if family and neighbors pitching a little bit too. And we think people will do that. We're still in the West. There still is an attitude of taking care of our neighbors and our families. And we think that's going to be important. But for those who still don't have that kind of support, we're going to be there on a daily basis for them. Now, that's going to help encourage them to maintain their isolation too. And that's important, have a little moral support. As far as it refusals, it just shouldn't come to that. And it really hasn't. We've had really good success when we've asked people to isolate. They've done so in the real high percentages. So we're happy about that. We believe that that will continue. We want to open our economy to do that. We need testing, testing, testing. Tracing treatment and isolation if necessary.