Seattle didn’t get lucky fighting coronavirus. It had to do the damn thing itself or else it wasn’t going to get done. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-seattle-flattening-curve/2020/04/09/7313b3c0-7689-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...

When you can’t get what you need, you get creative. Hospitals here have had sewing networks making masks for weeks now. Also useful: paintball supplies

Read all of this about Puget Sound’s coronavirus response, and it’s successes, mistakes, and fights. It’s great reporting from @RobertKlemko and @desmondbutler https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/coronavirus-seattle-flattening-curve/2020/04/09/7313b3c0-7689-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/...

Then read this thread about testing and how completely illogical the response from federal side is https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertKlemko/status/1248606530527731712">https://mobile.twitter.com/RobertKle...

Because one of the biggest lessons Seattle learned from itself was to keep things local and lean on local labs and experts. Help was never coming. Even if it was it was going to have stupid strings attached and take forever.