Mask Mandates Are Back in Snohomish County
or, What true weakness looks like from an elected Sheriff.
Today my county, Snohomish County, WA just went back under full mask mandate due to a doubling of our cases in just 3 weeks.
It's terrifying.
I know I have told you all before: My wife is trained in Pandemic procedures from our Navy. She has told me from the beginning that if all of us stayed inside for 60 days, this would be over. The virus would have no one to jump to and it would disappear.
But we all know that there are people who would stand on the roof yelling about how they would die for this country, that wouldn't actually inconvenience themselves for the very lives of their own kids.
And that brings me to todays point. Sheriff Adam Fortney, the elected Sheriff of my county, is exactly that person. Fortney has a laundry list of things that make him a dangerous choice for the person charged with keeping this county safe, before we ever get to Covid.
From day one Fortney showed his distaste for the people of Snohomish County. He beat up a 10 year old black boy for riding his bike outside of his house while wearing a blue shirt. Fortney's excuse was that the blue color alerted him to the possibility the boy was a gang member. This 10 year old black boy in a 99.9% White county, and he thought the boy a Crip?
*shakes head incredulously*
I listened to that boys mother speak about the incident at a county board meeting. It was horrific.
Snohomish County used to have a great Sheriff named Casey. Sheriff Casey was a great man who really cared about the area and its people. Casey fired officers that were corrupt and causing trouble in our county. Fortney immediately rehired them upon election and put them back in the same community they had terrorized.
This should tell you a little about how Fortney operates.
So when it came time that Gov. Inslee passed down the state wide mask mandate, Fortney publicly stated that he did not support the mandate. He openly, publicly, and in the media, defied the Governor by saying he would not enforce it.
What that did was embolden the MAGA folks, and soon my happy little valley in the mountains had people actively wearing guns INSTEAD of masks, for the sole purpose of wearing a gun as a protest to masks. That would cause the gun wearing folks to menace, sneer, and intimidate those wearing masks.
Our local mail store had a sign that said "We support constitutional law. Masks will not be allowed in the store." While all 4 employees inside pointedly open carried firearms.
Our local super market lead the state in calls about employees not masking, but Fortney did nothing, because he said he wouldn't.
And if you think the Federal Government has power, you really should see what your elected Sheriff can do. His powers are almost limitless, and not even a federal agent can override his word in his county.
So how is passing a mask mandate for the county going to help, when the person we elected to keep us safe, who said they would die to protect us, wont even inconvenience himself to tell people to put on their mask?
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