I am sure it will happen soon here in the Houston area. But people are being pretty good at following the rules. I have not seen any crowds.

Starts at midnight for all of Michigan, too.

Here is Wisconsin too. So far we don't have any cases in the county I live in, the deaths are mounting for the rest of the state. Went from 1 yesterday to 5 today.

Starts at 8 AM tomorrow morning in New Mexico.

They've closed all non essential businesses tonight at 8 pm. There are a lot of Kentuckians not listening, though, based on reports I read and what the governor says during his daily speeches.

We're under a stay at home order in Washington too. It's not really different from what they had already asked us to do, but now legally binding.

I was out today and delivered some things to my mothers care facility. (helping someone who doesn't go out with supplies still allowed, even with tonights lockdown orders) The door was locked. I was met and gave her things to staff who promised to help her put them away.

I had some things for her here at home, but stopped at Fred Meyer Vancouver for fresh ice cream....sounds frivolous but calories count with her and she will eat ice cream if its in her apartment.

Fred Meyer had rubbing alcohol in 99% and 70%. I bought some of the 99% (limits on number could buy) so I can feel more confident making hand sanitizer now if I run out and need to. I have fresh aloe gel.

They also had TP, limit one package of 12 but we should still be fine with the Costco package we picked up last month before all these shortages began.

OT - but we stopped at a rest area on the way home, and I directed DH out a trail and behind a tree so he didn't have to use a public restroom. Closer to home, we went through a Starbucks drive through for coffee. We'd skipped morning coffee so as not to risk having to stop someplace public and crowded ;0)

Started 8pm tonight- for our county. Isn't going to be any different than before. You still can go to the grocery store, pharmacy, dr appt, take food or supplies to someone, go to work, get out to exercise, pick up take out, etc.

Our Mayor issued a stay at home on the 21st starting tonight one minute after midnight. Nothing really will change except it allows for closing by health department all non-essential businesses that are open. Most of the county and smaller towns administrators have also issued stay at home but not our governor.

The number of cases dropping is directly on us now. We work together or face the results. The sooner we control it, the faster we get the fruits of our sacrifices.

Kitty, yes. Ditto. I think if we are not highly inconvenienced, we are not doing our share or enough.

Really, something more harsh needed to be done. Our beaches were flooded with campers and people day tripping from more metropolitan areas. We have one marginally staffed small hospital. Two grocery stores already low on paper goods and fundamentals. We can't accommodate an influx of people coming in to escape boredom. The little road to one beach state park where DH and I drove in to watch boats a few minutes earlier last week (and encountered maybe two families going opposite directions with their children) was lined bumper to bumper with cars both sides - with still a mile walk to the ocean.

morz8, did you listen to Inslee's press conference? I don't think he was as directive as he could / should have been. Frankly, what he said isn't all that much different than what we've already been doing. While he was talking, these words were written on the screen, "non essential trips not advised." What the heck? That's been the case for the past two weeks or so. The King County, Pierce County, and Snohomish County Sherriff's office all released statements saying they weren't going to do anything. The written message was "As your elected sheriffs, we have no intention of carrying out enforcement of for a stay-at-home directive." Not that I expected them to go around and arrest people anyway.

It also looked like what he was reading on the teleprompter were words he hadn't seen before.

If you watched it, what did you think?

DH had it on behind me and I was listening. I thought the same as you. It was not as stern or direct as it could have been. It was not as firm or well delivered as the scolding he gave a couple of days ago...and frankly, it didn't seem many took that earlier speech as seriously as some of us. I didn't see what the prompter was reading but he did not sound like he was speaking with authority - or from his heart with conviction as before. Maybe concerned about economy? I would have thought Jenny Durkan might have been there lending support.

I wish some of these people who just cannot stay home could see the intensity of the staff at my mothers care facility where they are trying to keep people safe. I delivered some things there today and a staffer reached through what had been a locked door and took them from me. I could see security in the lobby that has always been friendly and welcoming. I've never seen a security staff anyplace in that building in the 13 months she's lived there.

Yeah, I hadn't realized that until you mentioned it, about his lack of conviction about what he was saying. It sounded like he was just reading the words on the teleprompter without any emotion included. It really sounded to me like he wasn't prepared - like he was reading it for the first time.

I've been staying home. I order my groceries from Fred Meyer, and then pick them up in the parking lot. I did go out for a drive on Saturday. I drove by Alki. I didn't get out of my car. The area was packed with people. The beach was full of people. I thought "really?"

What angers me about this whole thing - several things do, but that people like me and you are heeding the requests to stay home. We are respecting the requests to self quarantine. There are many others who aren't. This thing is going to go on for a long time if people don't listen and stay home. And meanwhile, you and I are stuck at home now.

It must be frightening for you to have a family member living in a care facility. I knew someone at the Kirkland Life Care center who passed. Not very well, was the grandmother of a friend. She'd been healthy until contracting the virus.

I'm so sorry about your friend at Life Care. I've been watching developments there with a very heavy heart. Our most fragile, it's just unthinkable. (((hugs))))

My state health director has issued the stay at home order effective last night with a promise to enforce it if & when people choose to ignore it.

I'm very pleased with my governor and health director of Ohio.

Houston and surrounding areas the stay home order goes into effect tonight at midnight. Won't mean much difference to us, we have only left for groceries and pharmacy supplies.

Tarrant County did today also. Sorta surprised they didn't sooner since we're the other half of Dallas Fort Worth . But somehow saying Y'all Stay Home doesn't sound quite as a firm statement