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Posted on: March 31, 2020

[ARCHIVED] Stay home, Stay healthy, Stay Strong Whatcom County

Whatcom County, we are so proud of you for taking Governor Inslee’s Stay Home, Stay Healthy order seriously. Because it is serious. Every time you choose to stay home, you are doing your part to protect your neighbors, friends, and family. Staying home is proof that you care about your community.

We also know staying home is challenging. But we are asking that you keep it up. We know it’s hard. But as Governor Inslee said in his press conference yesterday, we must keep it up for the health of our communities. So we’re urging you to continue to do the right thing for your fellow community members - stay home. Unless you are going to the grocery store, work, or a medical visit, skip the trip. 

Many people continue to work to ensure our county has food in our stores, we have medical care when we need it, and water continues to flow from our taps. Stay home for them. Stay home for the people in your life that you love; your grandparents, parents, neighbors, and friends. 

Staying home isn’t easy for everyone in Whatcom County. Staying home may mean we don’t get paid, we can’t go to school, or we can’t pay rent. Not all of us have the same access to resources like medical care, sick leave, jobs, food, or housing that keep us going and cushion us in these tough times. This puts some of us at greater risk of getting sick, going without basic necessities, losing our income, or even our home. It means some kids can easily access online learning to keep up their education while others can’t. And it means some of us will get COVID-19, and some of us won’t. 

That’s why it’s so important we stay in this together. Because we can all take action every day to care for our neighbors, our friends, our families, and even the strangers we’ll never see. Consider ways that you can give back to your community:

The more we can all stay home, the sooner we can get back to business as usual.  It may take a while. Reducing our in-person contact with one another is our best tool to slow the spread of COVID-19 in our community. We are grateful that most of us are doing our part to keep our community healthy. We see you staying home, Whatcom County, and we’re proud of you for it! We know it’s tough, and we know it’s inconvenient. We also know that it will make a difference. 

Thank you, Whatcom County. We are in this together.


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