It comes as no surprise that a few officials in the city of Washougal are pushing for people to “move on”’ from the COVID-19 pandemic even as news that the incredibly contagious delta variant, which is now causing COVID rates to spike in 45 states, has made its way to Clark County.
After all, this is the same city council that wrote to the governor to push back against statewide COVID safety precautions less than two months after the pandemic began in the spring of 2020, saying then that the state’s safety measures seemed better suited to the big city of Seattle than the little town of Washougal — as if a deadly airborne virus might prefer the Space Needle over the Columbia River Gorge.