Deafening silence

Tue., June 9, 2020

In the state of Washington, businesses and medical facilities are closed or are limited, families and friends can’t get together, church services, weddings and funerals are forbidden or limited, graduations and sporting events are canceled because of the governor’s coronavirus regulations.

Yet people are protesting and rioting in the streets, breaking every regulation that the governor has set up. Yet all we hear is deafening silence from the governor, just about every news media, and the Associated Press. By their deafening silence what I hear them saying is that you can riot, destroy, loot, injure, or murder, and that must be okay, but you better not have a big family gathering or you might just get arrested.

James Fry

Pullman

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