Oregon County Says Only White People Have to Wear Masks

race matters wrote:

If black lives matter then how does black people not wearing a mask help them? They will obviously infect others of the black community if they aren't wearing a mask, so either

A. Black lives don't matter of

B. Covid is not a lethal virus and everyone is pretending.

Which one do you figure?

C. Some people (e.g., Lincoln County, Oregon officials) are so delusional in their desire to be as woke as they can be that they impulsively react to whatever absurdity the media is floating around, without thinking about its impact on A or B.

It's already been rescinded. The real crime is that Republican governors abrogated all mask regulations and re-opened, causing us to go right back to April levels of Coronavirus. We're at nearly 40,000 new cases per day again.

Oh, poo poo. The poor snowflakey, insecure conservative white men are worried that a policy might affect them differently than it affects other people.

Shouldn't the OP be celebrating that some people were allowed to get away with NOT wearing masks, given that he doesn't think masks are worthwhile anyway? His hypocrisy reveals a real lack of ethics and integrity.

For what it is worth, Lincoln county is 0.3% black, meaning there are about 150 blacks in a county of 50,000 people.

jko45 wrote:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.statesmanjournal.com/amp/3247895001

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

Yes it was reversed, reversed when the OP posted his shock and outrage.

Wannabe victims stay home devastated.

snerdly hep hep ack ack wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

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.

This is incorrect, and not supported by scientific advice. Sure wearing a mask will create somewhat of a barrier, but once a virus is aerosolized and out in the globs of spit and mucus (that evaporate), its easy for it to get around the loose edges inherent to cloth masks and surgical masks.

Wearing a mask primarily helps prevents people from spreading the virus, not as protection.

So you agree with me that its a barrier, but chose to include your perspective about how efficient the filtration of masks are, as if I was debating that.

BS. Explain, using common sense and/or the known physical laws of the universe, how it blocks whatever you think it blocks one way, but not the other.

The libs, again, can't stop the blame game. It's beyond old and immature. Could these massive protests packed tightly have anything to do with the increase in Covid19 cases? Now, go dig up some liberal backed "science and data" to refute it.

Right, only .3%. Would not matter if it was 93.3% because the Democratic partys elitists white leaders know what is best for POC.

Here is one thing we know for certain. The United States of America is the most unbelievable mess just flooded with personal and/or group agendas just waiting to be leveraged and smashed into someone face in order for personal and/or group gain. And because of this, all the "change" that has supposed to have been happening especially in the last 25 years, is nothing more than empty and emotional verbage.

But just live with it because it's not changing.

zxcvzvcx wrote:

It's already been rescinded. The real crime is that Republican governors abrogated all mask regulations and re-opened, causing us to go right back to April levels of Coronavirus. We're at nearly 40,000 new cases per day again.

The real crime would be with the medical profession if they can't handle 40,000 new cases per day and whatever flows from that (ICU, beds, supplies). They whole point of the lockdown was to give hospitals and the medical system time to prepare for large amounts of Covid sick people. To the extent they have not done that over the last 3 months, that is criminal. That is where people should be focusing their anger.

What do people like you think lockdown was for? I'm beginning to believe all the rhetoric that was saying you want to all stay locked in your houses until a miraculous vaccine appears or the the disease disappears through long term R0 below 1.0.

^this. +1. Well-reasoned responses. If only the rest of us were this reasonable.

Seriously? States and hospitals have been hampered by the fact that there is low supply of medical supplies from few suppliers, and the Federal government has NOT coordinated purchasing and supplies, so that all states have to bid against each other driving up the price of already limited resources.

Furthermore, the Federal government itself is bidding against states, and undercutting states (even Republican states). Quote from the governor of Kentucky: "It is a challenge that the federal government says 'States, you need to go and find your supply chain,' and then the federal government ends up buying from that supply chain".

To pretend that this is anything but gross mismanagement by the feds is ridiculous. The feds should be coordinating this response, and insuring states are able to get what they need. This supply could also be triaged by need if coordinated, something that manufacturers don't care about. FEMA etc. have the ability to help equitably disseminate medical resources, but they've vacated that responsibility and individual states are left in the lurch.

Stop it, that’s from the Onion

I traveled from Tucson to run the Newport Marathon in this county in 2017 and 2018. I'll certainly never be going back.

They initially gave this exemption because they claimed people of color that the mask would add to racial profiling.

A mask reduces the ability of one to readily identify race. It would likely reduce profiling.

Bart was wrong wrote:

jko45 wrote:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.statesmanjournal.com/amp/3247895001

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

Yes it was reversed, reversed when the OP posted his shock and outrage.

Wannabe victims stay home devastated.

Bump for idiots.

So you at least agree with me that the real crime is not re-opening, but rather it is that the three months of lockdown may have been squandered if the medical system can't handle the rise in Covid cases. You seem to say it is all the fault of the federal government if that is true. I don't know who is to blame, if it turns out to be true. I will note your quote from the Kentucky governor is from April 5 - which is 10 weeks ago - and the bidding and supply issues don't seem to be raised anymore. Almost like supplies are either being met, or no one is stocking up.

Have you seen the INSANE mayor who tried to mandate whites only wear masks? Have ya????