CDC: Fishing crews must still wear masks

Must Read Alaska ^ | 5/31/21 | SUZANNE DOWNING

[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.

[CUT]

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.

[Flick Lives]

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?

[KC_Lion]

SCIENCE!

[BitWielder1]

Outdoors is safer than indoors because of sunlight.
Fishermen are more "outdoors" than landlubbers.
How many fishermen have been infected while on their boats?

[Cowgirl of Justice]

Can someone post this pic of Murkowski having her ass handed to her by a vicious, angry Feinstein? Looks like Feinstein is collecting lunch money from the weaklings on the playground.

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[familyop]

What an outrage! I’m so outraged, I’ll spend all of my time obsessing about it. ;)

[Citizen Soldier]

Can’t wait to see this play out on Deadliest Catch.

[xrmusn]

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).

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

At this point, I’m in favor of disbanding the CDC in its entirety.

(Along with the FIB, ATF, EPA...).

[Pearls Before Swine]

Why? Aren’t these crews outdoors on the deck?

[hanamizu]

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.

[PIF]

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.

[bray]

Even though the pieces of paper don’t work the gummit knows best.

[Chode]

pretty sure the CG has better things to do...

[VanShuyten]

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….

[House Atreides]

“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.

[Seruzawa]

[gcparent]

So the fish don’t catch covid?

[JonPreston]

Good luck selling 🐠 fish that were caught by unmasked 🐟 fishermen.

[SamAdams76]

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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I I were you, I’d go Full-Karen and read them the mask rules.

Please report back how it went.