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closed businesses, canceled
events. But the virus’ creep
into the vast, sparsely popu-
lated region has been much
slower than in urban locales
farther south, where con-
firmed cases have skyrock-
eted into the thousands. As
of Friday, five counties north
of Sacramento had yet to re-
port a single confirmed case
of COVID-19.
In the northern reaches
of the Golden State, the
slower spread has caused a
creeping sense of dread —
and skepticism. In towns
where a conservative spirit
reigns in opposition to Cali-
fornia’s famously liberal
ethos, distrust of the govern-
ment is in no short supply.
Still, for the most part, peo-
ple here seem to be taking
the threat seriously, officials
and townspeople said.
“Most of the residents are
doing a great job staying at
home and social distanc-
ing,” said Kerri Schuette,
community relations pro-
gram manager with the
Health and Human Services
Agency in Shasta County,
which had 11 confirmed
cases as of Friday. “Unfortu-
nately, there is a smaller
group that believes this is
overblown, and they’re not
following the guidelines
while putting others at risk.
“We’re not like other
counties where the numbers
are high,” she added. “Most
residents don’t know anyone
in quarantine or with
COVID-19, and so we have to
continue to educate them
about the seriousness of this
disease.”
Rural hospitals nation-
wide, which already faced a
scarcity of doctors and dwin-
dling resources, are bracing
for a wave of high-risk
coronavirus patients. Ex-
perts say the virus could
inflict disproportionate
damage in rural America
because its population is
generally older and heavier,
and has more underlying
health conditions.
Hospital administrators
in conservative rural areas
say they fear residents were
slow to take the threat seri-
ously because President
Trump initially downplayed
it, saying Democrats and
the news media were over-

hyping the danger.

Across the Golden State,

images of desolate roadways

—especially striking in cities

that are infamous for clog-

ged freeways — have high-

lighted people’s unprece-

dented efforts to restrict

their movement to slow the

virus’ spread.

The amount Californians

have reduced their travel

varies by county, according

to an interactive mapre-

leased last week by Unacast,

a New York-based technol-

ogy company. The compa-

ny’s social distancing score-

board uses data from mil-

lions of anonymous mobile

phones to compare the dis-

tances that people traveled

before the outbreak began

and after it took hold.

The company’s data

show Californians overall

reducedtheir average dis-

tance traveled by at least

40% since late February,

earning a C grade. Los Ange-

les County received a B

grade after residents re-

duced their average dis-

tance traveled by at least

55%.

The data show that coun-

ties with few or no confirmed

cases were less likely to re-

duce their average travel dis-

tance. But officials in those

areas say there’s a caveat in

rural places: Traveling long

distances to get groceries or

takeout is just a way of life.

And in areas where agricul-

ture and more physical labor

are more common, people

are still going to work.

State Sen. Mike McGuire

(D-Healdsburg), who repre-

sents seven counties

stretching from Marin north

to Del Norte, said the virus

has steadily been “making

its way up the Highway 101

corridor for the last three

weeks.”

“There’s deep concern in

rural California because,

even in the best of times, we

don’t have the resources

that exist in suburban and

more metropolitan areas of

this state,” McGuire said.

Along the economically

distressed North Coast,

where the future lies not in

the logging jobs that once

defined it but, increasingly,

in tourism, the closure of

small businesses during the

pandemic has been espe-

cially painful.

While major school dis-

tricts such as Los Angeles

Unified have set up sites for

grab-and-go meals during

school closures, bus drivers

in some far-flung rural dis-

tricts are continuing their

routes, delivering two meals

a day to families who can’t

afford to keep driving to

town, McGuire said. In Trin-

ity County, some bus routes

along winding mountain

roads are 1 ½ hours each

way, he said.

As of Friday, there were

no confirmed COVID-

cases in mountainous Trin-

ity County, home to about

12,000 people in a place four

times larger than Orange

County. This week, the

county health agency asked

nonresidents to stay outand

banned recreational camp-

ing and hotel stays.

Donna Friedman, who

owns Mamma Llama Eatery

and Cafe in Weaverville, a

tiny Gold Rush town, said

that even with no confirmed

cases, people are heeding

the orders.

“The streets are pretty

empty now, and outside of

essential workers, you just

don’t see anyone,” she said.

“People are staying home.”

The only areas that seem

loosely regulated, she said,

are the trails surrounding

nearby campgrounds. She

hasn’t seen big groups of hik-

ers, “but you still see people

out there, and I don’t know if

anyone is checking.”

Del Norte County also

closedhotels, campsites and

vacation rentals to nones-

sential, short-term trav-

elers. The county confirmed

its first COVID-19 case

Thursday afternoon.

This week, Charlie

Helms, harbor master for

the Crescent City Harbor

District, said everyone knew

the virus would spread to

their remote corner of the

state. It was just a matter of

time.

“It’s like the old cartoons

where you have a devil on

one shoulder and an angel

on the other,” he said. “The

angel says, ‘Aren’t we lucky?’

And the devil laughs and

says, ‘Just wait.’ ”

Helms said the beaches

in Crescent City — unlike

many in Southern California

—are still open because they

are uncrowded even when

there is no pandemic. From

his harbor office window,

Helms could see the “crowd”

at nearby South Beach on a

sunny afternoon this week:

one paddleboarder.

Helms said the virus al-

ready has devastated the re-

gion’s lucrative Dungeness

crab season. Prices have

plummeted, he said, be-

cause dine-in restaurants

are closed and exports to

once-reliable foreign mar-

kets have stopped.

In rural Shasta County,

Terry Rapoza said he thinks

the reaction to COVID-

has been overblown. An or-

ganizer for the State of Jef-

ferson movementthat seeks

to carve a separate state out

of California’s rural north-

ern counties, Rapoza said

he’s alarmed by the govern-

ment-ordered shutdowns of

businesses and bans on

gatherings.

“I think coronavirus is se-

rious. Don’t get me wrong,”

Rapoza said. “But to tram-

ple on people’s constitu-

tional rights, that’s a good

way to control them. You

control the food line, you

control the pipeline on

medicine.”

Rapoza said the answer

to stopping the spread of

COVID-19 is personal re-

sponsibility, not govern-

ment orders. He and his

wife, Sally, keep their dis-

tance from others on walks

around their Redding home

and canceled meetings of

their Redding Patriots

group two weeks ago.

Ameme shared by his

wife, known on Facebook as

Rally Sally, featured a yellow

Gadsden flag often used by

the tea party. The coiled

rattlesnake was wearing a

surgical mask, and the

words “Don’t tread on me”

were replaced with “Don’t

cough on me.”

Redding residents Rich-

ard and Fran Wilkinson are

coping with the pandemic

with humor. He’s 88. She’s

82. He took a picture of her
    sitting in a recliner, wearing
    a camouflage jacket and
    clutching a huge pump-ac-
    tion shotgun to protect valu-
    able property: a basket full of
    toilet paper rolls.
    They, too, figure it’s all a
    bit of an overreaction, but
    they’re staying inside. They
    even let an ex-neighbor pick
    up some groceries for them a
    few days ago.
    “I’m a Trump supporter
    myself, and a lot of Demo-
    crats, they’re trying to
    blame Trump for this,” Rich-
    ard Wilkinson said. “But
    we’re doing the best we can
    with what we’ve been given.”
    Wilkinson is no stranger
    to devastating disease. In
    1949, his younger sister, a
    freshman in high school, was
    stricken with polio. The fam-
    ily lived in tiny Strathmore
    in Tulare County. He drove
    her to the doctor, who told
    him to take her to the hospi-
    tal right away. The whole
    drive, she screamed, “I don’t
    want to have polio!”
    She was put in an iron
    lung.She died days later.
    Wilkinson and his sib-
    lings were quarantined.
    They couldn’t attend her
    funeral.

Times staff writer Hannah

Fry contributed to this

report.

Denial, dread as coronavirus creeps north

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CHARLIE HELMSis the harbor master in Crescent City. He said the beaches in

town are still open because they are uncrowded even when there is no pandemic.

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‘The streets are

pretty empty

now, and outside

of essential

workers, you just

don’t see anyone.

People are staying

home.’

—Donna Friedman,

owner of Mamma Llama Eatery

and Cafe in Weaverville, Calif.