I feel a slow turning of the tide back to freedom liberty and those who are fighting for our constitutional rights. Do you feel it?  Please email me at [email protected] and give me your thoughts. [email protected] All but about 6 states in our nation have moved on. In the 44 states that have moved forward, people are living with the fact that Covid will be here for awhile, and that viruses have been with us for thousands of years.  They have weighed the benefits vs. risks, and moved on.  It’s time for the state of WA to move on also.  WE are now over 650 days of Inslee’s one man rule of our state, and its time to move on as citizens, and demand the legislature have some oversight when it comes to the governor’s ability to declaring an emergency.  In Arizona where I recently visited, restaurants are open, with no masks required. The only restaurant staff that are wearing masks is if the restaurant is part of a national chain. The locally owned restaurants are mask free.  Stores and shops are all mask free. Again, if they are a national chain, the only ones wearing a mask are the employees.  WA is one of only 6 states requiring masks, and the ONLY state with an outdoor mask mandate! It is only 1 of 6 states to require certain workers to get the mRNA injections. This includes all state agencies, operators of any educational setting, and operators of any healthcare setting.  How do we move on from here? *Stop wearing a mask. This is like keeping the flies out of your back yard picnic BBQ with a chain link fence.  Viruses are extremely tiny particles and the weave of a mask is no barrier to a virus.  *Realize your own health is in your own hands, and the government does not care about your health. If they did, they would come out with messages telling us to eat balanced diets, take supplements and vitamins, exercise, lose excess weight, stop smoking and vaping, and get the sleep you need.  *Insist that the legislature this January 2022 when they go into session have a top priority of reigning in the governor’s power, and provide oversight to his unchecked power.  *Don’t be controlled by the fear. I was in King Co this week, and there are still people driving around in their cars by themselves wearing a mask. The fear must be so hard to live with, so sad, and so unnecessary.  People who make decisions out of fear make poor decisions. Arm yourself with the facts, and don’t let fear into the mix.  *Allow for each of us to make our own health care choices. We all know the risks, the availablility of the shot; it’s free at grocery stores and drug stores, and we have all made our choices. Its time to move on and talk about something else.  And I want to give a shout out to those of you who walked away from, or got fired from, careers you loved because you would not take the injection. Good for you. My husband and I walked that same path 25 years ago, when he left a job he loved doing because of circumstances he could not control, and it was heartbreaking and financially crushing at the time, and really stripped us of our confidence while we lived with an unknown future. I was not working at the time and our 3 kids were very young. But God had other plans for us. 16 years later and many twists and turns in our lives, he was WA State House Minority Leader and one of the most powerful people in elected state government. We could never have done that if he would have stayed in that job that he had 16 years earlier.  God knows the future, and he can be trusted with it.  There are more of us than there are of them, so continue to speak up & speak out.  It’s time to move forward & with courage and conviction, LIVE!!