Governor Brad Little’s stay home order banned discretionary travel, but some rural communities are still frustrated with visitors coming into their towns. For folks in towns like McCall and Riggins, this influx of visitors is dangerous.
The Idaho Statesman’s Nicole Blanchard told Idaho Matters about the concerns she’s been hearing from anxious residents of these towns: “What is going to happen to those of us who are here all the time, that don't have the means to head somewhere else if there is a really big outbreak?”
Residents and town leadership worry that even asymptomatic visitors will carry the virus into town.
Small town medical services also aren’t equipped to treat a cluster of cases, which medical experts say is a big possibility because of community spread in the state.
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