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Keep choices to yourself

Don’t want to vaccinate your kids? Fine. However, don’t send your unvaccinated kids to public schools, where they threaten kids who rely on herd immunity (their parents are informed and not paranoid) for protection.

Don’t go to the bikini baristas. It’s your right not to go there. No one is making you get your coffee at those establishments. Don’t smoke the great state of Washington’s legal marijuana. It is not mandatory. Don’t diminish tax revenue by regulating tax-generating, job-creating local businesses.

Stop trying to push your morals on the local population. Go to a church of your choice to express this part of your personality. It’s my right to go there to hear you; or not.

Steve Lacombe

Spokane Valley



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