Dear Editor:

We’d like to thank the Plaindealer for their excellent reporting on the “To mask or not to mask” article last week and the BOCC for promptly holding an emer gency meeting to declare masks mandatory in Ouray County. We are in the throes of a pandemic which threatens us all. We were disappointed to read that the Chief of Ouray Police Jeff Wood thought that masks were unnecessary, said he didn’t personally shop in any store that required one, and questioned whether or not a law ...