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RED: And fuming over decision

| October 25, 2020 1:00 AM

So, Kootenai County goes to red, and the Panhandle Health District rescinds the mask mandate. Serious? This is ludicrous.

But, you know, I get this. No one backed them up. Not our police, who seem to pick and choose what laws they want to enforce. Certainly not the sheriff. And not our cowardly city council. Even a lot of the local businesses dissed them. And the Alt Right? Holy cow! Those eejits got in their face and threatened them! Tried to force two of them off the board.

And what happens now to our schools? How do they enforce a non-existent mask mandate?

People, this is scientific. The U.S. and Idaho are leading in COVID cases and deaths. That is not fake news. Just facts. The masks are not fun. I do not know anyone who likes them. But they do work. It’s a minor thing. It’s polite. It’s science.

VICKIE LOCKEN

Coeur d’Alene