1. Dear people in Alaska: You are not immune. MT State officials recommend masking up, but for some Alaskans, it’s not happening adn.com/alaska-news/20…
2. Last year's record visitor numbers were great for Alaska's economy. The aren't all locked down like most other states. They may be mislead that they are somehow immune. But I think they are just coming out of a period of isolation. Their low testing numbers won't hold if they
3. don't act. In the coming months, hotels and cruises will bring the visitors back to Alaska. This is a transmission source missing since March. Luck kept the early clusters out unlike Seattle, Boston and the big one, NYC/NJ. Nobody should presume that they won't catch this.
4. We've seen this monster ravage our native American populations in the contiguous 48. The many indigenous folks in Alaska are just as vulnerable. @SenDanSullivan @lisamurkowski @GovDunleavy are all unlikely to stand up to Trump plan to put populations at risk to aid
5. in his reelection. The idea that a second massive wave of infections will not wipe our the economy that Trump says he's trying to save is a pipe-dream. You have to wake up #Alaska. I reported this as a pandemic on January 22. I was right then and I'm right now. #NativeTwitter
