Oregon County Says Only White People Have to Wear Masks

How do the police know who identifies as black or white or brown?

This is so stupid. This whole race thing is now being made into a parody and with idiots giving decrees, just like for the virus. This is turning into a South Africa where white people left.

This is just an absurdity at this point.

Is this even Constitutional?

How do your enforce it? Cops starts arguing with people about what race they are? "Well, you look like white guy to me, so I'm citing you."

The whole basis for this law is a ridiculous piece CNN wrote BEFORE masks became popular, where they got some "expert" to speculate that black people might feel profiled by the cops if they wore a mask. The theory never caught on. This stupid county needs to update its drama research next time they enact a law.

Leftist logic: it is racist to require black people to wear something which can protect their health from something that can kill them. Eugenics much?

snerdly hep hep ack ack wrote:

This is just an absurdity at this point.

Is this even Constitutional?

How do your enforce it? Cops starts arguing with people about what race they are? "Well, you look like white guy to me, so I'm citing you."

Do Arabs also get the Black privilege exemption for masks? Arabs experience far more racism than Black people. This is just absurd. But given the fear mongering over the virus, can't say it's not unusual.

It’s an outrage I tell ya! Everyone knows being one of the few Black people in the county gets you the VIP TREATMENT everywhere you go!

The government is the entity that is profiling black people in the first place. If the government is worried about profiling, why don’t they just stop doing it instead of making some law about masks?

Everyone knows that Oregon is one of the most racist places in the United States. This just reinforces that. They exempt the one group that is second most likely to be hospitalized by COVID (hospitalization rate per capita is almost five times that of whites).

I thought this had to be fake news but ridiculous. How does something like this get put in place without someone saying we look like total idiots.

One of their arguments is Covid disproportionately has impacted people of color and the black community has a higher mortality rate from the virus. If the virus is more deadly to people of color why would they be the race exempt?

Looks like they reversed it, but I’m surprised they didn’t actually think about this happening.

Primo Numero Uno wrote:

I thought this had to be fake news but ridiculous. How does something like this get put in place without someone saying we look like total idiots.

One of their arguments is Covid disproportionately has impacted people of color and the black community has a higher mortality rate from the virus. If the virus is more deadly to people of color why would they be the race exempt?

Because wearing a mask doesn’t protect the wearer, it protects them from transmitting to those who are are near them.

This obviously isn’t racist, its an attempt to give Black people an out in case they feel uncomfortable due to the numerous cases of police targeting POC for wearing masks/having their faces covered.

It was reversed so its a moot point though.

This nonsense keeps getting repeated. It defies common sense as well as the laws of physics.. The mask is barrier. Prevents flow both ways. It is not a diode. It is not a one way mirror. It's a barrier.

There are not "numerous cases of police targeting POC for wearing masks/having their faces covered" any more than there are numerous cases of police targeting white people for the same reason. This whole fake theory was invented by CNN, and died months ago.

No it isn't. The stupidity of the decision continues to highlight the current insanity engulfing the nation. People should be aware that there are local leaders in the U.S. demented enough to think this was a good idea and that people would approve of it.

snerdly hep hep ack ack wrote:

This nonsense keeps getting repeated. It defies common sense as well as the laws of physics.. The mask is barrier. Prevents flow both ways. It is not a diode. It is not a one way mirror. It's a barrier.

That is indeed nonsense.

It's a barrier only to things much bigger than viruses. Okay, it's also a barrier to big globs of saliva and mucus exiting your mouth and nose, if you're into the habit of that. That's why the science says only sick people should wear them.

There's only one black family in the entire county. They made this stupid mandate to appear "woke". It's rescinded but was stupid in the first place.

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

There's only one black family in the entire county. They made this stupid mandate to appear "woke". It's rescinded but was stupid in the first place.

Good morning rojo :)

bartholomew_maxwell wrote:

Imagine how backwards this country will regress if Biden is elected.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/24/us/oregon-county-people-of-color-mask-trnd/index.html

The media has been telling us that people of color are being hit harder by the Coronavirus. So the solution of these politicians is to exempt people of color from wearing masks???

Young people. THIS is what your country will look like in the future. Embrace the progress.

Bad Wigins wrote:

snerdly hep hep ack ack wrote:

This nonsense keeps getting repeated. It defies common sense as well as the laws of physics.. The mask is barrier. Prevents flow both ways. It is not a diode. It is not a one way mirror. It's a barrier.

That is indeed nonsense.

It's a barrier only to things much bigger than viruses. Okay, it's also a barrier to big globs of saliva and mucus exiting your mouth and nose, if you're into the habit of that. That's why the science says only sick people should wear them.

Yours isn't quite the level of uninformed nonsense as the original guy, but it's still nonsense. It doesn't matter what the virus size is. It matters what the aerosol carrying the virus size is. Masks block or filter some degree of aerosol (again, both ways) and the filtration they provide is not only for "big globs of saliva and mucus." You can tell by the by looking at them, or reading the manufacturer's spec.