Mask mandates should continue

The fact that Gov. Jay Inslee is dropping mask mandates in our state is horrifying.

Hospitals are running low on supplies. Medical staff are exhausted.

Disabled, immunocompromised, and chronically ill people (including children who cannot be vaccinated, teachers who are working in public schools, and medical staff who are treating COVID-positive patients) know now that their governor does not care about them.

We need to be taking more precautions, not fewer. We all saw the graph at Inslee’s press conference.

We are just starting to come down from the worst point of the pandemic, and “opening up” is going to make things worse.

If Inslee is listening to the most vulnerable and if he cares for those of us who cannot be around unmasked people in public, he will reinstate the mask mandate and other measures to prevent further spread of COVID.

Ruth Williams, Pullman