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The town that doesn't believe in COVID:

• https://www.dailymail.co,By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER

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'. 

Large crowds joined the Patriot Prayer-organized rally in Mossyrock, a rural community in Lewis County between Seattle and Portland, with maskless protesters waving flags and chanting against 'government oppression'.

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.

Inslee's restrictions prohibit restaurants, bars and gyms from offering indoor services and setting capacity restrictions on retail stores. The rules apply to all Washington counties until January 4.

Businesses that don't comply could be hit with fines totaling thousands of dollars. 

But Mayor Randall Sasser signed an ordinance saying businesses could stay open in defiance of the state mandates, claiming state officials refuse to give him data about the number of cases in the town, which has a population of 800.

'They have issued the numbers by commissioner's district, but not by zip code. And currently in Mossyrock, in our 98564 zip code, there is no information that states that there is any cases whatsoever within our zip code of COVID, or any deaths related to it', he told KIRO Radio


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