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With resistance becoming more vocal to his stay-at-home order and partial closure of businesses, Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday said the decisions he has made are “designed to protect the health of Washingtonians” from the new coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the state.

“So our office will not be guided by irrational forces that would really gamble with our health. And if we placed that bet and lost, we would be giving up the hard-won gains that we’ve already made,” Inslee said.