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So because this actually seems to vary a lot: Portland shut down pretty fully for a month early in the plague, then as things...

So because this actually seems to vary a lot:

Portland shut down pretty fully for a month early in the plague, then as things trickled back normalized masking in stores, which it’s maintained pretty consistently since with the exception of like two weeks of false dawn after the vaccine but before the variants

Restaurants were restricted to outdoor seating until I think summer 2021, a lot built some replacing parking, even street parking, there were a few street shutdowns to create restaurant-dense dining streets

Indoor dining and bars (unmasked, obv) have been a thing since then but it’s still normal to put on a mask going to the bartender or playing pool, I pick up the sense this isn’t the case in Eugene

There’ve been a few venues I hear demanding vaccination, but no consensus or passports and sometimes the kinda thing (“…to sit at the bar”) that’ll obv fatigue and fall away with time

There was an eviction moratorium that honestly I don’t know how resolved, I think maybe Multnomah County extended theirs past the state’s?

We’ve had reasonably good vax takeup, vocal opposition is mostly an eastern Oregon (dryland, rural, conservative) thing, in the SW that’s largely based on tourism and hospitality small business there’s friction with restrictions on that basis

“Rapid tests” are not, as far as I can tell, a thing here as I get the sense they are in the urban northeast from all the references on Twitter

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