Operating by executive order may be the new legal standard for mass compulsion, but the oracle should at least provide details. If there is any science behind what is essential, no one has presented it. If data alone told the governor to invoke a statewide stay-at-home order, other more rural states wouldn’t be doing it so differently. What confuses people are the ridiculous inconsistencies between what is and isn’t allowed and where.
The sheriff doesn’t need to know statistics when the models the governor cites change faster than a cat on a hot tin roof. In the beginning we weren’t thinking about all this. After six weeks our common sense now says the governor’s justifications are arbitrary. Business owners and customers can decide for themselves what is and is not safe and act accordingly.
Without a hint of irony, our prosecutor proclaims “actions have consequences.” You mean, like shutting down the entire state? Our most basic constitutional rights are being abridged based on one man’s stubborn adherence to his interpretations.
Leonard French
Mountlake Terrace
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