Exactly my take.
My wife's brother actually called to make sure we were ok which was very nice but yeah it is very overblown. The first weekend was much, much worse in Seattle as far as I can tell. 5 miles away may as well be the dark side of the moon.
I was a just a couple miles away from downtown and this CHAZ zone few days ago supporting some of the local beer places that just reopened (just doing my part
) and you couldn't even tell that anything was going on. Looked like a normal sunny Tuesday afternoon.
This is a fluid situation though so so who knows what will happen.