How well has the education, encouragement and not enforcement approach worked locally to prevent COVID 19?

With businesses, there are sanctions and people can lose their license. Businesses are suffering and spending extra money to reopen. The decent ones will absorb the cost; others will pass it to the consumers.

There has been all this focus on businesses when most are being responsible. Individuals are being held to a different standard.

Most individuals have been responsible. Those that have not, what incentive is there for them to follow the rules? You don't have to jail people but cite them and fine them. If they can't pay, make them work it off with SWAP or a community program.

Had that been done from the beginning, we would not have people traveling out of the county, the situation at Alder Bay or McKinleyville Aztec Grill.

There has been a car with a Nevada license plate on 6th Street for a week. Just walking around, I have seen many out of state license plates and not at hotels and motels.

We have HCSO vehicles, CHP, EPD driving around before Memorial Day Weekend. Direction to educate, not enforce comes from those in charge and this poor decision has resulted in the increase in numbers for Humboldt. Now, according to the AP article I posted earlier, the County wants to slow the pace for reopening  which was made possible by those of us who sacrificed and followed the rules?

If a family member tests positive, they are encouraged to isolate, but not forced.

Those with access to information about transmission ignore questions from the media and the public they don't want answered.

To those families who lost loved ones at Alder Bay and to everyone exposed or testing positive due to the irresponsible actions of others, education not enforcement is a slap in the face.

Why are businesses and the rest of us being punished when those breaking the law get no consequences?