We're having a bit of an emergency here at the coast
I live in a beach fishing town on the Washington coast, and its pretty quiet 9 months out of the year. We get pretty good tourist traffic here Mid June thru Labor Day. The rest of the year you’re hard pressed to see two cars on the road at the same time.
We - and every other beach town along the coast and down into Oregon - were overrun with people coming out here to “vacation” since they’re all on lockdown. I am not exaggerating when I say thousands of people came here, to a county holding steady with one infection for over a week, from the Seattle area, where the infection is rampant! Thousands of people, going to our one grocery store and three gas stations - with zero regard for what they could be bringing here to our predominantly retiree aged population. Where we’ve worked hard to isolate, help flatten the curve, look after our elderly and just try to stay safe. All that work being undone by these thoughtless people disregarding the pleas to isolate and stay home. It is fucking outrageous, and it is statistically impossible that none of these THOUSANDS of people are carrying infection.
Inslee said in his presser yesterday he didn’t want to impose a state-wide stay at home order, but he would if people didn’t start acting right. Now, thanks to these people we at minimum need to close all beaches and state parks - if not also shut down all non-essential business. What these thoughtless people have done is just gobsmackingly selfish and ignorant.
UPDATE: Our uproar was not for naught! Last night the city of Westport issued an emergency resolution ordering all the visitor accommodations to close within 24 hours. Today they put up roadblocks to the beaches. They don't have jurisdiction to close the beaches, but they can close the roads! Also today, the state just now shut down all state parks, and asked everyone to stay off the beaches. This is huge for us. There's several little state park areas with tent and RV camping here at the beach, and they were full as well. Thankfully they're closing now. I know I was only one of probably hundreds of emails and calls made since yesterday afternoon, but it is gratifying to know we were heard. I wish I could paint the picture of what it was really like here yesterday...and it was that way along the entire coast.
It'll be interesting to see what our infection rate looks like 14 days from now. Our county has held steady at ONE confirmed case for over a week. Here's hoping it will stay that way.
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...and send these dimwits home asap. 
Now, if it looked like the beach in Rio ... then we'd have a problem ...
All of the ES towns are small and employment is pretty limited to small service type businesses, other than Cal Trans and some LADWP (LA Dept of Water and Power). So tourist dollars are precious. Not only domestic travelers, but there are tons of Europeans that come through from San Francisco, through Yosemite, down the East side and over to Death Valley. Losing all of those people is going to be crushing to the economy. But it has to be or the alternative is horrible. I think I read the other day that there are less than 10 ventilators total between the 2 hospitals.
Let's hope people will come to their senses in these vulnerable places, and come back when things are safe again. 
