I love Alaska. I live in Sitka, which is a small town on the side of an island. We have about 10k people, but our town is a 14-mile by 1/2 mile strip of land on a 100-mile long island that's almost entirely wilderness. I like that we're a big enough town to have a thriving community - good educational opportunities, a variety of work available, an impressive arts community. But you can walk into the woods anywhere at the edge of town and immediately find yourself in actual wilderness. Subsistence is also a way of life for most people - almost everyone has a freezer with fish and wild game that they caught themselves.

The virus is going to have a serious impact here, like so many places. So many people depend on the summer tourism season to make a living. There are charter fishing operations, tour operations, retail operations. Those people and businesses will make almost nothing this year. And when this is over, how long will it take people to be able to afford summer travel again?