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In the Hunger Games movie series, President Snow says a leader must give people a little hope, to ensure their compliance. Too much hope? They become rebellious.

According to the Health Department, Both Benton and Franklin counties over the limit.

Given Cowlitz County's resistance to mask mandates, COVID restrictions and other economic killing issues, some believe this is a 'punishment'

After some confusion over the metrics, which were 'changed' by Gov. Inslee and state officials just prior to last weekend, we now know that three Washington counties will move back to Phase 2. They are Pierce, Whitman and Cowlitz Counties...

No firm answer about new Phases beyond 2 given by Inslee. He also said there's a one week "pause" on any regions going backwards, but did not elaborate if any are in 'danger' of doing so.

Yakima is open to phase 2 of the State's Coronavirus Healthy Washington Plan and while that was applauded and is appreciated it is also not enough.

According to the state, the South Central Region made only 2 of 3 catagories (4 total) to allow advancement.

Inslee cautioned against having large Super Bowl parties, saying we don't want to let the virus win the Super Bowl.

Despite being down in new case trends and COVID hospital admissions, our South Central region is stuck.

At least 7 counties are at or very close, to the 25 cases per 100,000 in population 'required' in Phase program to move to 4, which is basically back to normal.