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."
Makes perfect sense. I am going to diet so fat people don’t get sick...
Give them all “F” as in “Fools”.
Brainwashing never washes out.
We’re screwed. The next generation won’t even know how to change a light bulb.
Aprox. two dozen ‘perfectly possessed’ future Democrat Voters
Psychological damage. Some people will never recover from this. Sad.
Face masks are as useless as the people who wear them.
Dolts are free to wear their diapers if they want - just leave the rest of us alone!
Expel them.
Stockholm Syndrome.
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.
Virtue Grandstanding is a religion for some.
Most of those I see still wearing masks are kids. Brainwashed kids.
Wilhelm Reich said that the key to tyranny is to create a psychological state in which people WANT to be controlled by others.
“… 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.
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