{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So because this actually seems to vary a lot:\nPortland shut down pretty fully for a month early in the plague, then as things...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/671118102419898368/", "html": "<p>So because this actually seems to vary a lot:</p><p>Portland shut down pretty fully for a month early in the plague, then as things trickled back normalized masking in stores, which it&rsquo;s maintained pretty consistently since with the exception of like two weeks of false dawn after the vaccine but before the variants</p><p>Restaurants were restricted to outdoor seating until I think summer 2021, a lot built some replacing parking, even street parking, there were a <i>few</i> street shutdowns to create restaurant-dense dining streets</p><p>Indoor dining and bars (unmasked, obv) have been a thing since then but it&rsquo;s still normal to put on a mask going to the bartender or playing pool, I pick up the sense this isn&rsquo;t the case in Eugene</p><p>There&rsquo;ve been a few venues I hear demanding vaccination, but no consensus or passports and sometimes the kinda thing (&ldquo;\u2026to sit at the bar&rdquo;) that&rsquo;ll obv fatigue and fall away with time</p><p>There was an eviction moratorium that honestly I don&rsquo;t know how resolved, I think maybe Multnomah County extended theirs past the state&rsquo;s?</p><p>We&rsquo;ve had reasonably good vax takeup, vocal opposition is mostly an eastern Oregon (dryland, rural, conservative) thing, in the SW that&rsquo;s largely based on tourism and hospitality small business there&rsquo;s friction with restrictions on that basis</p><p>&ldquo;Rapid tests&rdquo; 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</p>"}