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CDC: Fishing crews must still wear masks
Must Read Alaska ^
| 5/31/21
| SUZANNE DOWNING
Posted on 05/31/2021 2:12:18 PM PDT by conservative98
In spite of pleas from Sen. Lisa Murkowski and others, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Coast Guard still say that fishing personnel must wear masks aboard boats.
For many Alaska fishermen, having a mask over their nose and mouth during fishing operations is akin to being waterboarded, as wet, slimy masks are difficult to breathe through, create visual barriers, and prevent communication.
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National Fisherman provided its readers with a list of activities in which wearing a mask would create a safety hazard for onboard workers:
- On-deck tasks which necessitate removing a mask to perform duties due to safety hazards from slime- or water-covered masks causing difficulty breathing.
- When the crew needs to communicate with each other or the captain, as the captain is hearing impaired and needs to see the facial expressions and lips of the crew.
- Shoveling fish into bins.
- Hauling in net and anytime the net reel is in motion.
- Manning the net reel while in operation.
- Stacking boxes of fish.
- Wash down of the deck.
- Unloading fish boxes at the dock.
- Jumping on or off the boat while docking or departing.
- Tying lines to secure equipment or the boat itself.
- Any activity where there is communication between the crew and captain as the captain has hearing loss and needs to see facial expressions and lip movement.
(Excerpt) Read more at mustreadalaska.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alaska; biden; cdc; coastguard; fauci; fishermen; fishing; followthepropaganda; maskmandate; masks; murkowski; rochellewalensky; slime
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To: conservative98
Isn’t being onboard a fishing boat out on the ocean pretty much the penultimate definition of being outside? I mean how much more “outside” can you get? So why masks?
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:33:06 PM PDT
by
Flick Lives
(“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
To: conservative98; cracker45; Tainan; Jet Jaguar; SENTINEL; redpoll; ArmyTeach; Eska; hattend; ...
SCIENCE!
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:38:05 PM PDT
by
KC_Lion
To: conservative98
Outdoors is safer than indoors because of sunlight.
Fishermen are more "outdoors" than landlubbers.
How many fishermen have been infected while on their boats?
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:38:12 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: BitWielder1
To: conservative98
What an outrage! I’m so outraged, I’ll spend all of my time obsessing about it. ;)
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:43:14 PM PDT
by
familyop
To: conservative98
Can’t wait to see this play out on Deadliest Catch.
To: ConservativeInPA
I’m sure fishermen will comply. (sarcasm)
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Can’t you just see ‘political mask officers’ aboard commercial fishing craft????
Speaking of maskabaturs....
I heard of a guy that went aboard a fishing craft as a junior baiter and after 6 months was an accomplished MasterBaiter(sp).
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:50:28 PM PDT
by
xrmusn
(6/98 "Message to GOP "GO FUnd YOURSELF")
To: conservative98
At this point, I’m in favor of disbanding the CDC in its entirety.
(Along with the FIB, ATF, EPA...).
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:53:12 PM PDT
by
Basket_of_Deplorables
(Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
To: conservative98
Why? Aren’t these crews outdoors on the deck?
To: conservative98
I believe that Alaska commercial fishing is one of, if not the most dangerous job in America. Anything that limits movement or awareness of a fisherman is risking his life. The nature of the job requires men who are risk takers. Of course they won’t wear the stupid masks.
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:58:09 PM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: conservative98
This is just another instance of the Federal government harassing commercial fishermen with the hope that enough can be either fined out of business or killed. The Federal Government absolutely hates commercial fishermen.
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posted on
05/31/2021 2:58:25 PM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: conservative98
Even though the pieces of paper don’t work the gummit knows best.
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:06:33 PM PDT
by
bray
(Hating Whites is racist)
To: conservative98
pretty sure the CG has better things to do...
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:13:03 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: conservative98
But, but , but, this is just to keep those of us who like to lick raw fish from being infected by those WuFlu+ fishermen who coughed all over the catch….
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:21:09 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
To: crusty old prospector
“Let’s see them enforce it, matey.”
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This is stupid. The crews, other than those being video recorded for ‘The Deadliest Catch’, will be getting a good laugh over this silliness. The problem is that most government employees have never had real jobs.
To: conservative98
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:22:41 PM PDT
by
Seruzawa
(The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
To: Pearls Before Swine
So the fish don’t catch covid?
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:26:05 PM PDT
by
gcparent
(MAGA)
To: conservative98
Good luck selling 🐠 fish that were caught by unmasked 🐟 fishermen.
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:28:43 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
(Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
To: conservative98
Yeah, I can just picture those fisherman dutifully wearing their face diapers on a fishing boat - just because the bureaucrats at the CDC say so.
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:32:56 PM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
To: Chuckster
I I were you, I’d go Full-Karen and read them the mask rules.
Please report back how it went.
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posted on
05/31/2021 3:33:03 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“No man’s life, liberty or property are safe while the Legislature is in session" - Gideon J. Tucker)
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