As a person who works for the county and has a job to be on top of information, and as a person who wants to be the most effective in my job, here are just a few short points I want to make.

First of all the COVID-19 virus is real. It affects people differently but the underlying fact about this is, it is real.

Secondly, in our counties across Montana it is the “right or wrong,” “not Ok,” “it is Ok,” “it’s taking my rights away,” “what about that guy’s rights” type of balking that is making health departments and emergency management teams frustrated, bewildered a...