COVID

Sooner or later, life returns to a greater state of normal...we hope. Apparently, 49 other states, even Oregon, have rescinded their COVID state of emergencies. Not us.

Mike Faulk, Deputy Director of Communications, seems to be the one who issues the most statements, and comments from Inslee's office on matters.

Only two states, WA and Nevada, still have official state of emergency declarations in place.

Evusheld received EUA status in December 2021, now the WA DOH says thousands of doses are available for what they call "high-risk" COVID persons

DOH plans to test wastewater in sewer systems, use 'equity' to ensure 'fair' healthcare, and pledges to work at "fighting misinformation" about COVID going forward.

Apparently the CDC says COVID and its related viruses can be tracked through water treatment systems? Sewage?

The Department of Health's statement glosses over the economic, educational, social and emotional disruptions caused by the state's COVID policies.

Oregon, like WA, has its Labor and Industries 'operated' or overseen by OSHA (Feds). Oregon has already announced after the Supreme Court ruling, no vax or testing mandate for businesses.

The big issue here is the Board of Health wanting to add COVID-19 etc. to the list of existing viruses-diseases from which they can use WAC (Washington Administrative Code) to quarantine persons.

A slew of reviews on the Better Business Bureau website seem to indicate many people fear this is potentially fraud.