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We know what to do

In a recent address, Gov. Inslee made the comment that his responses to this outbreak are not political. Interesting that Boeing puts 30,000 workers back to work right in the epicenter of the outbreak without a peep from the brain trust in Olympia but some folks on the east side of the state propose moving ahead and he is all in an uproar threatening legal action. Al French said it best the other day when he said, “we are not the Puget Sound area.” One size does not fit all. We need to start getting things opened now.

Inslee seems to have difficulty understanding the difference between opening and social distancing. I have not heard anyone saying to relax social distancing. Look at all the places that have continued to be open and how we are social distancing as we do our shopping and banking, etc. We know what COVID-19 is and we pretty much know how it transmits. We know what we must do to protect ourselves and we can do all that while getting the country back functioning.

Oh, by the way, Inslee and his cronies are sitting in Olympia drawing nice paychecks while 100,000-plus Washingtonians are losing everything. Remember that in November. It wasn’t the president that caused you to lose. Most of you were doing pretty good before this and we can only hope he and Congress can bring it back from the brink.

Bill Rambo

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