Peaks&Creeks
WKR
Gunnison resident here. My wife works EMS in town and since she is 7 months pregnant right now has been taken off the ambulance and switched over to the emergency planning department. To say that she works long and stressful hours trying to keep our county ahead of this Covid-19 ordeal is an understatement. This sucks for everyone, trust me, and having our “own” public lands is the least of any Gunnison/Crested Butte residents concern right now. Sure, people are getting out to take walks and maybe ride their mountain bikes/dirt bikes, but they are doing it alone or with housemates or families that they have been isolating with. It’s a ghost town here. Another reason to keep tourists out is because our hospital is very small (26 beds) and cannot take anymore stress than it already is. We cannot afford people coming out right now and getting injured from their recreational activity of choice, and taking limited resources from our already stressed infrastructure, and trust me, you all know how to get injured and killed out in these mountains, my wife and her colleagues are busy all summer and fall pulling tourists and locals out of the mountains, and to resume to a normal amount of carnage at this point in time would be unimaginable. We all need to make a bit of a sacrifice so we can get through this together, and when it’s all said and done I welcome anyone back to visit and hunt and fish and moto or whatever, I’d even show a Rokslider around and get some beers, but please, for fu$ks sake, just don’t come here right now and jeopardize anymore of these hard working people trying to figure this mess out, and I’d love for my first born child to be born healthy and in a hospital that isn’t dealing with overworked nurses and doctors more than they already are. I get some of the decisions being made by the local governments may come off as unconstitutional or what have you, but this virus is changing the landscape faster than any of us have witnessed in our lifetime (unless you lived through Spanish Influenza), and local authorities have to take actions that may come off as brash or shooting from the hip, but guess what, it’s working. Do I like it, hell no, but it’s better than the alternative. I can tell you that Gunnison County is doing a damn fine job with the limited resources they got, the screening and testing has helped (partly why we have a high count of contagious), where as other counties and even states were not as prepared for this as us. Trust me, Gunnison Valley Hospital was set up in late January for this to hit us, and it’s worked. Problem was we were still letting tourists flock in here until a few weeks ago, and most of the first cases came from folks in the service industry, serving guess who? Yup, tourists, so it makes sense we don’t want more people coming in right now. Anyways, I hope all you Roksliders and families stay safe out there wether you choose to isolate or not.
BTW, a few weeks ago I was also a skeptic of this whole thing, but having a wife and friends working on the front lines and managing this, I can truly say from what I’ve seen that we are not close to being done with this and the worst has yet to come. We’ve also lost a great member of our community here due to Covid-19 and several more who were taken out of Gunnison in critical condition holding on to their lives, and no they weren’t 80 with pre-existing disorders, Millennials, Gen-X, and Boomers alike.
Ah man hunting season can’t get here fast enough.
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BTW, a few weeks ago I was also a skeptic of this whole thing, but having a wife and friends working on the front lines and managing this, I can truly say from what I’ve seen that we are not close to being done with this and the worst has yet to come. We’ve also lost a great member of our community here due to Covid-19 and several more who were taken out of Gunnison in critical condition holding on to their lives, and no they weren’t 80 with pre-existing disorders, Millennials, Gen-X, and Boomers alike.
Ah man hunting season can’t get here fast enough.
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