Governor says he could extend the two-week stay-home order

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With businesses shuttering and unemployment claims spiking, Gov. Jay Inslee shared what he called “a glimmer of hope” in the state’s fight against the new coronavirus.

New data show a slight decrease in the curve of new cases per day in Washington, and some hospital beds and supplies are on the way, Inslee said during a news conference Thursday in Olympia. The state still needs more testing, hospital capacity, supplies and health care workers, Inslee said, and he might have to extend the governor’s two-week stay-at-home order. A proclamation which took effect Wednesday closed all businesses deemed non-essential and banned public and private gatherings, from weddings and funerals to sleepovers and pick-up basketball.

“We shouldn’t be within 10,000 miles from champagne corks with this,” Inslee said. “We simply cannot allow this virus to be slowed and then spring back up on us. We’ve got to pound it, and pound it until it is done.”

As of Thursday, 3,207 people had tested positive for the virus statewide, including 149 who had died. In Snohomish County, there were 816 cases and 18 deaths. Many of those who have died were senior citizens, but younger people with no underlying health conditions can get seriously ill, too.

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1. I would be very surprised if he didn't.

2 weeks is the bare minimum needed.

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2. this was in the cards all along

in fact .. it was the playbook all along. No thinking person ever thought differently.

And .. while I know you have to allow for politicians and some macho prose ..

"We’ve got to pound it, and pound it until it is done.”

The virus isn't going to be done .. in any true sense until we have a vaccine (or it's made it's way through a large portion of the population). Flattening the curve doesn't bear any semblance to the virus being done.