Inslee Says Recovery Plan “As Fair as Humans Can Design”

Governor Jay Inslee was adamant during a press conference Thursday that the state will not be making changes to its Healthy Washington - Roadmap to Recovery plan. There had been complaints from around the state this week regarding the plan's regionalized approach and semi-weekly updates.

Inslee says his plan is as fair as humans can design.

"On the issue of the time period, we've attempted to provide some degree of stability to the system." explained Inslee, "Because we are doing this based on a dynamic process, we though it's better to have to two weeks, because one week you just might have a bad week. This reduces the chance that we just had sort of an aberration that might knock you down a peg. This (plan) cuts both ways, if you will."

In arguing against a county-by-county approach, Inslee says that it wouldn't be fair if one county opened up while the next county over did not. Ten counties in Phase 1 currently border a county in Phase 2.

The governor added the plan's science-based approach has already opened up half the State of Washington (by population). Inslee said that there are 10,000 legitimate criticisms of the state's plan, but you can't argue with the results, and the results say what the state is doing is working.