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Portland students walk out of class over lifting of mask requirement
KEZI 9 ABC ^ | 3/13/22 | KGW

Posted on 03/13/2022 8:01:00 PM PDT by conservative98

PORTLAND, Ore. — Approximately two dozen Portland Public Schools students rallied outside the district's headquarters Friday morning over its decision to make masks optional once the statewide mandate is lifted this weekend.

Students protest Protest over mask mandate in Portland

"I think that honestly telling people to take off their masks is really selfish to people who don't have that option," Franklin High School student Serafina Sabatini said.

Starting Saturday, March 12, masking will no longer be required in indoor public places, including schools, in Oregon. This means masking will be optional in schools beginning Monday, March 14.

Sabatini is worried about the younger kids she works with outside of the school setting, namely the little kids she crosses paths with as a swim instructor.

"I can't wear a mask during that," Sabatini said. "I wear a face shield, but since we're in a pool I can't wear a mask and I don't want the mask mandate lifted at schools because then I can be exposed and possibly expose part of the vulnerable population."

It is concern for the vulnerable populations that prompted Friday's student walkout.

"I see my grandma every week," Franklin High School student Avani Stevens-Rose said. "She's not super immunocompromised. It's just in general. I have friends who live with their grandparents."

"I feel very strongly that there are people in our community that'll be heavily impacted by lifting the mask mandate," Ida B. Wells-Barnet High School student Jazz Stahr added.

At a Friday afternoon press conference outlining Oregon's pandemic recovery plan, state leaders addressed the students' concerns about shedding masks.

"Our districts are using the COVID-19 community levels tool that now shows most of Oregon's counties in the low level of community levels and suggests from the CDC it's a time where it's safe to go without masks," Oregon Department of Education Director Colt Gill said.

Gill reminded students that masks will never be prohibited. He encourages students and staff who want to continue wearing masks to do so. Students who walked out of class Friday will be among those who keep wearing masks.

"Of course I will," Sabatini said. "A KN95."


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1 posted on 03/13/2022 8:01:00 PM PDT by conservative98
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Makes perfect sense. I am going to diet so fat people don’t get sick...


2 posted on 03/13/2022 8:03:49 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: conservative98

Give them all “F” as in “Fools”.


3 posted on 03/13/2022 8:05:34 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: conservative98

Brainwashing never washes out.


4 posted on 03/13/2022 8:05:55 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: conservative98

We’re screwed. The next generation won’t even know how to change a light bulb.


5 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:11 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (The GOP is the UN of US politics)
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To: conservative98

Aprox. two dozen ‘perfectly possessed’ future Democrat Voters


6 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:26 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: conservative98

Psychological damage. Some people will never recover from this. Sad.


7 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:28 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR i>OUR NATION. Never be a paceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: conservative98
Approximately two dozen

That's yuge!
8 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:42 PM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths; 2021: My main take away from this year? Trust no one.)
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To: conservative98

Face masks are as useless as the people who wear them.


9 posted on 03/13/2022 8:06:42 PM PDT by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: conservative98

Dolts are free to wear their diapers if they want - just leave the rest of us alone!


10 posted on 03/13/2022 8:07:58 PM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: conservative98

Expel them.


11 posted on 03/13/2022 8:09:31 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stockholm Syndrome.


12 posted on 03/13/2022 8:10:26 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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13 posted on 03/13/2022 8:12:44 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domi/i><p>! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia! )
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To: conservative98

They’ve indoctrinated kids well. There are parents around here who go around without masks while their kids wear masks.

The Branch Covidians even mask my kid even though I do not give her a mask in school and state law makes it optional.

BTW I am a trained electron microscopist (very tiny things) and know very well that masks with a 500 nanometer pore size do nothing to stop a virus that is 100 nanometers in diameter.

This is part stupidity, but on behalf of health departments, evil.


14 posted on 03/13/2022 8:13:09 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: conservative98

Virtue Grandstanding is a religion for some.


15 posted on 03/13/2022 8:13:13 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: conservative98

Most of those I see still wearing masks are kids. Brainwashed kids.


16 posted on 03/13/2022 8:13:21 PM PDT by bigbob
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17 posted on 03/13/2022 8:19:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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18 posted on 03/13/2022 8:20:52 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: conservative98

Wilhelm Reich said that the key to tyranny is to create a psychological state in which people WANT to be controlled by others.


19 posted on 03/13/2022 8:20:58 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Ukraine is not a good country and does not deserve active US support.)
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To: conservative98

“… He encourages students and staff who want to continue wearing masks to do so. Students who walked out of class Friday will be among those who keep wearing masks.…”
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I suspect they won’t mask up for long.


20 posted on 03/13/2022 8:25:23 PM PDT by House Atreides
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