Open letter to Mayor Hayes:

On July 13 I pleaded for the restoration of Zoom to town meetings in part because of the WHO announcement (July 13th) about the danger of the delta variant. I said this to you, the council, and a crowd of 45 mostly unmasked citizens at Maple Hall.

On July 15, two cases of the delta variant were announced by Dr. Howard Leibrand of Skagit County Health.

I made the case for safety, for parents of little kids, and for immunocompromised citizens. I suppose you and your colleagues didn’t hear any of that. Others spoke to the same issue.

Now that things are worse, you...