I just returned from a three-week visit to Port Angeles.
I live in Kern County in California.
I was thoroughly impressed with how much more seriously your citizens are taking the threat of COVID-19 than those of my county.
Virtually wherever I went in Clallam County, people were wearing masks, in businesses and offices, on the streets, even while biking or walking in quiet, rather empty neighborhoods.
Meanwhile in Kern County masks are largely not used.
The comparative results are dramatic.
Kern County has an infection rate of 31,110 per 900,202 population, or about 3.5 percent, about 1 in every 29 people.
Clallam County has 225 cases in 77,331 population, or about 0.3 percent, about 1 in every 344 people.
Think about that, you are doing more than 11 times better than we are.
The results speak for themselves.
You should be proud of yourselves, you are clearly doing the right thing.
Keep it up.
James Murray
Tehachapi, Calif.