The ability to skirt the transient worker issue may be there, but the medical and scientific communities are also showing us the obvious. We should isolate the community and wait for the preventive serum. We have an ideal situation because we are remote, and the virus started during our slow time of the year. Because of asymptomatic cases it will be impossible to control transients in respect to spreading the virus.
Dr. Elliot Bruhl stated on Talk of Alaska: “It’s naive to think workers will self-quarantine.” Later he said, “To bring transient workers in from areas where the virus is active to a village where there is no known activity is irresponsible.” I agree 100% with these statements. To put a given population at risk for economic or political reasons is not rational thinking, and I might add immoral. Perhaps a good question to ask our leadership is “In what way are these transients critical?”
Art Woodard
