State of Oregon makes indoor mask mandate PERMANENT, so I'm not going to worlds

cold coffee wrote:

The title may be not accurate, but it was heard they are considering this. They are also considering a health passport. The good news is people are fed up. But they need to speak up. This state just ended a pointless outdoor mask mandate. This is a state that was masking varsity athletes outdoors last spring. It took a near catastrophe and a brave coach to speak up to end the nonsense.

https://www.oregonlive.com/sports/john_canzano/2021/04/high-school-coach-calls-on-oregon-health-authority-and-governor-to-reconsider-mask-mandate-for-distance-runners.html

No masks. No mandates.

I'm for the vax, honestly, and Ohio isn't as restrictive, but Columbus is unfortunately blue. I love the city (despite the crappy weather sometimes) but the mandate we have may last indefinitely. I hope Ginther leaves at some point as mayor.

I blame the Republicans too--they got pantsed when removing DeWine's powers, TOTALLY FORGETTING HOME RULE and how cities could enforce mask mandates with teeth (LEOs). How in the F did they not see that?

They did good in that they limited DeWine and ODH from their games, though, but they didn't do enough locally. At least in Dublin they don't have a mask mandate, but the businesses are mostly wanting masks (at least at that point, it's up to each one, and I'll take my chances).

Oregon seems to be FAR WORSE.

People won't fight this other than arguing on social media. Nobody wants to lose their good jobs.

This.

I lean right but am pro-vax.

Masks in hospital and nursing homes should be the ONLY two spots where it's mandated, as those places actually seem to have a legit argument for preventing spread. Nursing homes especially.

So I'm against mask mandates but not THOSE specific areas. Someone gets it!

3x vaxxed guy wrote:

ienjoyracing wrote:

If you actually believe Oregon is going to mandate masks indoor permanently… I have no words for you.

Maybe a few - get off the internet, go outside

What evidence do you see that any liberal-leaning area is ever going to let go of masking? It's not about science anymore, it's a moral/culture issue to them.

Covid is the religion of the left.

black elephant wrote:

Just to clarify, I meant not going as a fan, not implying that I would make the team.

Second, in response to WW2 comment, with absolute certainty I can tell you that the three men in my family who served in the military and the the one who died would absolutely say that they fought for my freedom so that I wouldn’t have my life “mandated” by anyone. I am vaccinated, and I personally think you are crazy if you aren’t, but I’m not willing to take away your freedom if you don’t. I’m not going to storm the capital, but I am going to separate myself from events in states that do things like this.

Oh noes I guess we’ll just have to soldier on without you.

antivaxxers killing-democracy wrote:

Armstronglivs wrote:

These Covid denial anti-vaxxer threads are proof that even really really really stupid people are entitled to their opinions. And most of them are on Letsrun.

+1

Antivaxxers are in big part the result of Reagan's dismantlement of mental health care in America. Now the consequences of that are really beginning to haunt us.

Liberals being ignorant is what haunts America.... Blaming Reagan for the "dismantlement of mental health care" is absurd.

The passage of Medicaid in 1965 incentivized states to move patients out of state mental hospitals and into nursing homes and general hospitals because the program excluded coverage for people in “institutions for mental diseases.”

Medicaid was Lyndon Johnson a racist liberal icon...

Do you truly believe those ancestors would not laugh at the "dangers" of COVID???

Caleb's Hat wrote:

https://twitter.com/KatieDaviscourt/status/1468719471418216450

Twice as many children die of pneumonia then COVID-19. This is the problem with painfully stupid people being fed misinformation by the media 24/7.

An average of 184 kids choke to death each year.

Over 1,000 kids are murdered each year.

Almost 400 kids 0-14 die of drowning every year.

Almost 400 children are shot in Chicago alone every year.

There were 67 COVID deaths of kids aged 5-14 in 2020. All had co-morbidities.

COVID is virtually HARMLESS to healthy children.

This forum is full fear mongering morons who think COVID is worse than the Black Plague...

Bullet_Proof wrote:

No one believes your retarted data.

The right-wing base in a nutshell.

what a snowflake wrote:

your ancestors stormed Normandy on D-day under a hail of gunfire and you can't even wear a mask for a few hours to help save a few lives?

Except.... no lives were actually saved because of you ever so saintly wearing a mask

FREEDOM!!! wrote:

Cool. More space for me

And as a black elephant, there'll be space for at least a family or two extra