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Oregon HS Track Coach Calls for End to Mask Rule After Athlete
Breitbart ^ | April 23,20021 | WARNER TODD HUSTON

Posted on 04/24/2021 8:16:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk

A high school track coach in Oregon is calling for an end to rules mandating mask-wearing during competition after one of his athletes collapsed from “complete oxygen debt.”

After a nearly two-year break from track meets, high schools in Oregon once again began competing, but the state added a new rule, requiring students to wear masks at all times, even when competing in sports.

Summit coach Dave Turnbull was not thrilled about the masks

The biggest problem for the coach and his runners came in the 800-meter race when student Maggie Williams collapsed on the track just meters short of the finish line even as she was on the verge of achieving a school record.

“I was pushing so hard and everything went blurry and I just fell,” Williams told The Bulletin. “But luckily I fell at the right spot and crossed the line with my head.”

Turnbull added that he sent his request up the chain to the powers that be.

“The good news is that the OSAA is working hard with the OHA to remove the mask restrictions,” Turnbull said. “I sent them pics of Maggie hitting the ground. I warned them of this in a meeting over a month ago. Respiration requirements in events from 400 to 3K are far too high for masks. Moreover, carbon dioxide isn’t fully removed from the mask upon inhalation. The very reason we wear the masks to protect others is now a liability for the athlete when they increase respiration to the levels these athletes need

The coach concluded by saying that coronavirus transmission in outdoor settings is low.

“Look at the science of Covid transmission outside. It has been non-existent. Why are track athletes still required to run in a mask? What metrics are you following?” he said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: children; coronavirus; covid; covid19; cultofthemask; fauci; fauciism; maskrestrictions; masks; masksdontwork; schools; sports; youthsports
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1 posted on 04/24/2021 8:16:39 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

We’re all being punk’d.


2 posted on 04/24/2021 8:18:46 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: Hojczyk

I don’t blame the dumb kid, but what kind of idiot thinks it’s ok to choke off your oxygen supply as you run?


3 posted on 04/24/2021 8:21:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Actual FR Quote: “I ain’t getting no Covid Vaccine. I’d rather get Covid and DIE before I get a jab.)
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Coach: "Why are track athletes still required to run in a mask? What metrics are you following?"

OSAA response: "We don't need no stinkin' metrics."

4 posted on 04/24/2021 8:22:39 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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5 posted on 04/24/2021 8:22:44 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Responsibility2nd
...but what kind of idiot thinks it’s ok to choke off your oxygen supply as you run?

OSAA.

6 posted on 04/24/2021 8:23:28 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Responsibility2nd

My job isn’t normally physical labor but with 95% of the workforce “wfh” with no access to the building, they make a hammer out of the “tools’ (people) they have.

I have found that labor intensive tasks (moving tons of equipment, dismantling shelves, etc) leave me winded because of wearing that stupid mask.

I step outside to my car where I can remove it and get several minutes of fresh air.

Again, those who are imposing these rules do not live under them.


7 posted on 04/24/2021 8:24:21 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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8 posted on 04/24/2021 8:25:02 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Hojczyk
when student Maggie Williams collapsed on the track just meters short of the finish line even as she was on the verge of achieving a school record.

“I was pushing so hard and everything went blurry and I just fell,” Williams told The Bulletin. “But luckily I fell at the right spot and crossed the line with my head.”

She collapsed meters away from the finish but her head crossed the line? Is she a trans-species giraffe claiming to be a high school girl?

I'm surprised the teams aren't using very thin gauze masks. They stop nothing but make check off the mask box.

9 posted on 04/24/2021 8:25:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Police should refuse duty at NBA venues. Let them wallow in their desired chaos without police.)
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To: Hojczyk

No more mandatory masks for school kids, either.


10 posted on 04/24/2021 8:25:38 AM PDT by House Atreides (mil)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“OSAA response: ‘We don’t need no stinkin’ metrics.’”

Why would we need metrics or proven science when we have Fauci’s prolific ass to refer to?


11 posted on 04/24/2021 8:25:58 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ("if I perish, I perish." Esther 4:16)
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To: Hojczyk
state (Oregon) added a new rule, requiring students to wear masks at all times, even when competing in sports.

A willful and wanton act on the part of the State of Oregon:

Willful and Wanton Conduct is a willful or wanton injury that must have been intentional or the act must have been committed under circumstances exhibiting a reckless disregard for the safety of others, such as a failure, after knowledge of impending danger, to exercise ordinary care to prevent it or a failure to discover the danger through recklessness or carelessness when it could have been discovered by the exercise of ordinary care.

It's time for the citizens of Oregon to hit the "Oregon Trail" with some bigtime lawsuits.

12 posted on 04/24/2021 8:29:38 AM PDT by Maudeen (https://thereishopeinJesus.com/)
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“And crossed the line with my head”

That’s how most of my stories end, too.


13 posted on 04/24/2021 8:32:14 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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BURN the filthy, oxygen depriving MASKS.
They are bacterial and viral TRAPS.
Every time you touch it, it’s being inoculated with microbes.
They are also worthless.
Covid numbers now are being artificially inflated.
It’s time to take a stand against this frickin’ mask tyrants and the creeps insisting we follow their orders when they turn around and leave our borders wide open.


14 posted on 04/24/2021 8:32:31 AM PDT by doc maverick
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To: MayflowerMadam

The Great Oracle Fauci speaks, and the people obey.

What in the world has happened to us?! The people must wake up from their psychosis and say “No more! No globalism, no Great Reset, no New World Order, NO, NO, NO!!!”

Otherwise, we are finished.


15 posted on 04/24/2021 8:36:34 AM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Hojczyk

“I was pushing so hard and everything went blurry and I just fell,” Williams told The Bulletin. “But luckily I fell at the right spot and crossed the line with my head.”

Now that is an American right there. The world lines up against him, makes him compete with an anchor tied around his ankle, to the point of almost death, and this great American wakes up with the thought of “did I cross the finish line, did I win?”

Masking is asinine, doubly asinine when talking about wearing one during maximum exertion, but even that shackle will not stop a true winner, a true American.

All that being said, the fact that so many “Americans” are ok with masking is supremely troubling, but as we see here, the next generation may not all be snowflakes. Perhaps there is hope for our future after all.

We must all ban together, work as hard as this American, and demand that all these asinine restrictions be removed immediately.


16 posted on 04/24/2021 8:39:45 AM PDT by walkingdead (We are sacrificing American youth's future on the altar of our own fear. And it is a travesty.)
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To: doc maverick

Agreed but it would be difficult to find a more sheeplike, docile and government-worshipping population than the liberal idiots in Oregon.


17 posted on 04/24/2021 8:46:04 AM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

—”what kind of idiot thinks it’s ok to choke off your oxygen supply as you run?”

Occasionally I used to see oxygen deprivation masks on other cyclists, maybe a few times a week.
Before they became so popular.

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18 posted on 04/24/2021 8:51:17 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message.)
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To: Hojczyk

3 years ago this coming fall, before we knew anything about the ChiCom flu, we had massive forest fires in our area and massive smoke that just stayed.

At age 80, I didn’t run, but I did a lot of walking on level areas and up and down some fairly steep hills before the fires and smoke.

I was having problems with the heavy smoke and the N95 masks were recommended.

Wearing a N95 mask, I could barely walk about a quarter of mile with a slight up grade. I could only do about a quarter of a mile versus at least a mile before smoke with the N95.

My wife checked my bp and pulse rate after one of my short walks with a N95, and the results were scary re being high. I was told not to wear a N95 and to use a simple cloth mask. Also not to walk in heavy smoke regardless of the mask worn.

Later with CV19, local walkers and now most non local walkers walk our hilly area without masks, even w/o smoke.


19 posted on 04/24/2021 8:52:21 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We are alive, in spite of being stupid and getting vaccinated twice!! On: 01/31/2021 & 2/21/2021)
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To: walkingdead

A real American would have told the school and the state athletic commission to ‘eff off, quit the team, and started a track team that had no affiliation with any school.


20 posted on 04/24/2021 8:53:18 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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