While hosting municipal meetings and doing media interviews urging non-residents to stay at home, Sister Bay Village President and Door County Board Chairperson Dave Lienau was the self-described “walking billboard” for social distancing. Lienau says it is likely he contracted COVID-19 while returning from his skiing vacation in Aspen, which was a hot spot for the virus in Colorado. He had what felt like an odd cold, displaying multiple symptoms of COVID-19 over the course of his sickness but never all at once. Recovering from the illness, he was able to finally confirm his suspicions when he eventually got a positive antibody test after the first meeting with his Veterans Affairs doctor. Looking back, Lienau was happy the village and the county took social distancing and other preventative measures seriously.

Lienau is happy no one got sick during the time meetings were still being held in person. Both the village and the county have allowed for video conferencing for meetings in the weeks since.