Hundreds of people have attended a 'Freedom Rally' in a small town in Washington on Saturday after its mayor refused to enforce the state's COVID restrictions on businesses, citing 'the Constitutional rights of small town America'. Attendees - most from out of town - were encouraged to spend money in local restaurants, which were packed with people not wearing masks in defiance of state restrictions. It came after the town unexpectedly voted last month to ignore Washington Governor Jay Inslee's state-wide business restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus. It comes back to our Constitutional rights to be able to do what we want to do and protect the rights of small town America.' The wider Washington State has seen 203,790 cases, and 2,918 deaths.
