Much like what happened in 2020, during the early stages of COVID, now with Delta and Omicron, Inslee again "requires" hospitals for forgo non-essential or live-saving surgeries.
In all my circuits around the sun, I've never seen society stoop to this level. Let's turn a thoughtful, PERSONAL medical decision into a "if it's free it's me" joke.
According to WSDOH, they claim a lot of unknowns. This second strain came from South Africa, the first 'strain' from the UK. That was the one that allegedly spread faster and more easily, but otherwise was not vastly different than original.