14-day quarantine isn't so bad, say some Others, not so much. And is everyone doing it?
The Weekly Packet|06/04/2020
Before they left New York for their new summer home in Stonington, Pat and Darko Hreljanovic heard there was trepidation about people arriving from out of state, especially from an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic.
LESLIE LANDRIGAN
14-day quarantine isn't so bad, say some Others, not so much. And is everyone doing it?

So after their 14-day quarantine, in which they didn’t set foot off their property, Pat made a sign. She put it against the windshield of her Volkswagen, which has New York license plates. It said:

“We have completed our 14-day quarantine. We (heart) Maine.”

The Hreljanovics were following Gov. Janet Mills’ emergency order requiring a two-week quarantine for people who come here from out of state. That requirement is keeping some summer people away, according to Duke Shepard, who caretakes homes on the island.

“I’ve got maybe a fifth of my people,” said Shepard in a phone interview. “I’ve been in this business for 55 years and I’ve never seen anything like this.”

Shepard said his clients who have arrived are all self-isolating for two weeks. He knows because he stocks up on groceries for them, or, in the case of the Hreljanovics, picks up a dump sticker at Town Hall. But he wonders about some of the people he sees driving around with out-of-state plates, he said.

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