The Okanogan County Snitch List – Inslee’s Informant Herd

OKVALLEYPROUD wrote: This is a list of people who want their local businesses to stay open, who want to be able to go to work, who depend on local business. However, they know that if safety practices like masking and distancing are not followed, their neighbors, friends, and family are risking their (and others) lives.
By reporting, they are trying to keep our stores and schools safe.

OKVALLEYPROUD, thanks for your comment, but I don't agree with your "virtuous reporter" argument. And masking and distancing are not actual safety practices when dealing with an airborne virus. If anyone thinks their life is endangered by being in public or shopping at stores, then they should stay home and shouldn't be in public or shopping. That's a personal health decision made via a personal risk assessment and it's fine. But they don't get to force everyone else who doesn't agree to the same level as them, to comply with their own level of health decisions, burdening others so that they can then do all their normal activities and "feel safe".

Attacking the small businesses of this community by reporting them to the state regulatory agencies is not how to "keep local businesses open" that everyone in this community relies on, and also doesn't "save any lives" whatsoever.

> Worsening the divide in our community is the last thing we need right now.

Tell it to Jay Inslee.

Kali18, Thank you for your comment. But if mere words can incite someone to violence then the situation was already so precarious that anything could have set it off. And indeed I see that is the case here - as I have said, encouraging and enabling this sort of reporting to the government is breaking our society. Further, I am just the messenger here. If you are truly concerned about this whole situation, then you need to talk to the people who are actually responsible for all of it - which is Governor Jay Inslee, and anyone working under his direction.

>What if they were not trying to shut businesses down, but to make employees safer?

I don't think trying to make employees "safer" by starting a process that could lead to the shut down the businesses that employ them - or at the least, greatly increasing their operating costs - is a good, much less rational, strategy. Long-term unemployment is a significant danger to one's health as well.

>OR what I am more so wondering, what if someone's information was used, but they didn't actually send in the report?
I doubt this happened at all.

>I am all for doing what is right, but giving out people's personal information online is NOT it.

These people willingly gave out their contact information to the state in the first place, and they also expressly checked a checkbox that said that they understood that it could all be publicly released. Where is the problem?