They have been using it as a place for people who have Covid and nowhere else to stay since May:
After erecting a fence around the hotel, the state then reopened it for its purposes on May 7. Health officials said the hotel serves people who don’t have a place of their own to quarantine or isolate after they come in contact with COVID-19.
A wide gamut of people could fit that bill, said Cory Portner, a state health department spokesperson: a traveler at SeaTac’s airport who tests positive, a commercial fisherman at a port, or even a prisoner on work release.
The health department then transports them to the Centralia hotel, Portner said. Five people have already quarantined or isolated there.
“They need a place to stay if they do develop symptoms or if they have a concern for quarantining (elsewhere),” Portner said.
I object to the way they went about this, but it’s not exactly hounding people out of their homes, rounding them up and locking them up in a concentration camp.
How much of a step is it from "the hotel serves people who don’t have a place of their own" to rounding them up and jailing them for defying Inslee?
I can quote chapter and verse that the SS guards at Dachau thought that they were helping create a greater Germany. The families of the guards at Auschwitz KNEW they were serving the Common Good.
Apparently, your gag limit is pretty resistant.
Freedom is overrated.