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."
Somebody ask them, if carbon dioxide is a pollutant do you think it is healthy to have a mask on your face for 6 to 7 hours straight where you are compelled to inhale your own carbon dioxide?
h/t Mark Levin
The good news is that if they take their masks off, they won’t leak any of their brains out.
They have none to leak.
“Of course I will,” Sabatini said. “A KN95.”
Isn’t that special?
There’s just one problem. A KN95 unsealed with gaps, like most people wear them, works less than cloth masks.
https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-the-danger-of-the-momentum-behind-n95-respirators
“The same study (Shah et.al.) that found just 10% and 12% reduction in aerosols for cloth and blue surgical masks respectively, actually found that KN95s worn improperly with 3mm gaps between the face and the respirator, as most people wear them, only offer 3.4% filtration efficiency – less than the cloth masks.”
1) Plus you are sucking on a dirty mask
2) Handling a dirty mask.
3) Spreading whatever is on the mask to your hands, face and whatever you touch.
Better off just washing your hands!
Kids would walk out of class to protest Taco Bell taking off their favorite item if it meant getting an excuse not to sit in boring class or to buy more time to get an assignment or test in. I never believe in the authenticity of these walk outs whatsoever.
We’re screwed. The next generation won’t even know how to change a light bulb.
Why replace a light bulb when you can just get a new lamp?
brainwashed “woke” snowflakes
Sweetie, the school board gave you the option to wear or not wear your mask. Look up option before you use the word.
If you force kids to wear a mask while swimming you are a double idiot.
What they cannot do is tell me if/when/where I have to wear one. I won't tell them how to live their pathetic lives, they don't get to tell me how to live mine. I'm enjoying mine. Well, for the most part. When I have to deal with these sniveling little {censored} it is equal parts humor, frustration, and sadness for the human race that we could produce such as this.
I didn’t realize that Portland PROHIBITS the wearing of masks now...which I guess must be the case, if they’re protesting that they can’t wear one.
Swimming in a public pool.
With a face shield.
WOW.
Healthy people don’t get others sick. That was always the rub. This chic is totally brainwashed and totally self centered.
[[We’re screwed.]]
Well it was only 2 dozen out of several hundred no doubt- so there is some hope-
” telling people to take off their masks is really selfish.” Wow. It takes work to be so illogical and crazy. Why not let people do what they want if it is reasonable?
Easy solution. Those students should double, or even better, triple mask to make up for being exposed to others who are exercising their right to breathe.
Wow! 2 dozen as in 24 out of how many who want this BS to end?
yup......
Two dozen walked out? That’ll show ‘em!
The pinkos are doing a fine job of raising weak and militant herd creatures.
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