The Herald has daily reported the number of cases and fatalities due to the coronavirus. But when we look around we can see the billions of dollars lost and millions of lives disrupted/ruined due to Washington state’s extreme Covid shutdown. While Gov. Inslee makes proclamations to save hundreds of lives and hides out in his mansion, millions of real people are having their lives and careers disrupted and ruined.
This extreme shutdown impacts the poor and vulnerable the most. Techies work from home while lower wage workers are out of work. Upperclass families have laptops for students, meanwhile low-income students have no access and no support. Elderly are afraid to leave their homes due to constant fear mongering. People can’t work, students aren’t getting an education, and the elderly are isolated and left to fend for themselves.
We need to stop overreacting and start making rational choices about our economy and our health care. Social distance fine, face masks, fine. But why stop home construction, why close fishing season, why close parks? This is terrible overreach by an incompetent Inslee administration.
Seasonal flu kills thousands in our state every year and no one bats an eye. But Covid kills hundreds and we allow Gov. Inslee to ruin the lives of the citizens he serves. We need to make rational choices about our healthcare, not erect walls of fear.
Call Gov. Inslee and tell him to start relaxing his stranglehold on our state and start putting the citizens he works for back to work and let us start to get back to normal.
Edward Drabb
Arlington
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