<story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>As someone who lives in one of these states, I&amp;#x27;m nonplussed at the announcement. It doesn&amp;#x27;t really seem to say anything concrete that I can tell.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve agreed that we will use metrics...we are still deciding what these metrics will be.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I thought the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order (in Washington state) wasn&amp;#x27;t unreasonable and wasn&amp;#x27;t just political babble, but I don&amp;#x27;t really know what to make of this piece. Anyone want to try to explain it like I&amp;#x27;m five?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjcl</author><text>I think this is a polite way of these states saying that they&amp;#x27;re not going to follow any &amp;#x27;national plan to reopen the economy&amp;#x27; put out by the White House.</text></comment>
<story><title>California, Oregon and Washington announce western states pact</title><url>https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/13/california-oregon-washington-announce-western-states-pact/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DoreenMichele</author><text>As someone who lives in one of these states, I&amp;#x27;m nonplussed at the announcement. It doesn&amp;#x27;t really seem to say anything concrete that I can tell.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We&amp;#x27;ve agreed that we will use metrics...we are still deciding what these metrics will be.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I thought the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order (in Washington state) wasn&amp;#x27;t unreasonable and wasn&amp;#x27;t just political babble, but I don&amp;#x27;t really know what to make of this piece. Anyone want to try to explain it like I&amp;#x27;m five?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JPKab</author><text>My brother lives in Oregon.&lt;p&gt;He was complaining to me the other day that Oregon&amp;#x27;s requirement that you are not allowed to pump your own gas is an obvious COVID transmission vector.&lt;p&gt;To get gas in Oregon, he follows these steps:&lt;p&gt;1.) pull up to gas station
2.) Roll down window to hand attendant (who isn&amp;#x27;t wearing a mask, nor is required to) his debit card.  
3.) Get card back from attendant.  
4.) Sanitize the debit card
5.) Sanitize his hands
6.) Hope that the attendant is washing his hands, and that he didn&amp;#x27;t breathe COVID onto him through the open window.&lt;p&gt;Not saying this isn&amp;#x27;t a great, noble effort.&lt;p&gt;Just saying that, in some aspects, these states aren&amp;#x27;t doing a good job on obvious things within their own borders.&lt;p&gt;Why the hell is Oregon still doing this, and not requiring masks from gas attendants anyway?  Maybe it is required, but my brother told me he has yet to have an attendant wearing a mask, so possibly not enforced???</text></comment>