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COVID-19

If you are not in Mount Desert, please stay where you are and shelter in place. You cannot come here to escape COVID-19 it is here already. Our 23-bed hospital has five ventilators. You are putting your lives at risk as well as the many elderly, and chronically ill residents of our community by arriving now. The next thirty days will be crucial as we battle to bring this dreaded disease under control. Do not make our efforts any more difficult than they already are.

Governor Mills has issued Executive Order # 28 requiring people to remain at home unless they need to leave for an essential job or an essential personal reason such as obtaining food, medicine, gas, or health care. You can take a walk for exercise, but you must adhere to the six-foot social distancing guideline.

If you own rental property do not open your building until the Civil State of Emergency has passed.

If you operate a hotel, campground, lodging facility, or short term rental property do not open until the Civil State of Emergency has passed.

Follow all Centers for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines for social distancing. We have links for COVID-19, read this vital information on our website. Please become familiar with this vital information.

If you have recently arrived, you must quarantine for a minimum of fourteen (14) days. Do not leave your property. Call your local businesses, or order online to have groceries, prescriptions etc. delivered to your door. A list of local businesses that may assist you will be posted shortly on our website and Facebook pages.  Try using these commonsense precautions:

Please stay at home.  Shelter in place. 

No "group" social distance walks.  Only walk with those in your household.

Get groceries delivered in advance of your arrival.

Get all utilities up and working before your arrival.

Park your car and leave it.  

No visits to the Post Office.

No visit to the grocery store.

No visits to the Pharmacy.

Many Island stores that are still allowed to be open are offering drop off or items to be left outside.

Shaw's in Ellsworth has Instacart, but they do not deliver on the Island.  Try ordering using the address of the store and have them load it into the back of your car at the market.

Ask a friend who has been here for longer than 14 days to help you.

Ask yourself, "Do I really need this?"

Practice common sense. Think before you act.

We are all in this together and your actions affect the larger community. Help flatten the curve.

With strength, courage, compassion, kindness and a lot of old fashioned yankee common sense we will emerge from this as a stronger and more caring community. Take a few moments to be thankful for the blessings of friends, family, and pets during this difficult time.

We are all in this together. Let’s do our part so we all come through this together.

Durlin Lunt, Town Manager

Mount Desert, ME

manager@mtdesert.org