A dangerous statement

I see on TV that Sheriff Knezovich will not enforce Gov Inslee’s direction that everyone should wear masks. I have a question for the sheriff: Do you drive in the middle of the road or on the left side of a two-way road? No, because you would be in or cause an accident and hurt not only yourself but someone else. Do you yell in church? Do you cut in line? Do you push people away from displays in the grocery store? Do you call people names? The last four are probably not illegal, but they are rules which can be broken and which infringe upon your right to be a jerk.

People who refuse to wear masks are cruel, selfish and short-sighted. If you have the virus and don’t know it, you could infect the child with cancer, the adult going through chemotherapy, the young mother with an autoimmune disease, the 30-year-old man with a heart condition.

When you don’t wear a mask, you are saying that my little rebellion, my tiny little political statement of not wearing a mask, is more important than bringing to an end the life of a child or a mother or anyone who may catch the virus from my unmasked nose or mouth.

Donna Harvey

Hayden