Posted on 08/24/2021 2:17:33 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Oregon implementing mask mandates outdoors regardless of vaccination status © Getty Images Oregon announced Tuesday it is reimplementing an outdoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status, a measure that is slated to take effect starting Friday.
“Effective Friday, August 27, masks will be required in most public outdoor settings, including large outdoor events, where physical distancing is not possible, and regardless of vaccination status,” a press release from the governor’s office stated.
Gov. Kate Brown (D) said in a video this action is to “protect Oregonians and save lives.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Exemptions for violent mobs burning buildings down
With a name like that, you post that?
I would think that anyone using a name like “Pirate Ragnar” would understand the importance of not paying taxes to those who enslave you.
Thanks for your opinion...
I got family in conservative southern Oregon, you need to rethink your comment
Oregon has one of the highest income taxes in the nation.
If conservatives living in Oregon keep writing checks to politicians like Kate Brown, then they are supporting her, just like giving heroin to an addict.
Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, Etc. Would all appreciate those tax dollars too.
It’s not hard to move these days, people do it all the time.
Otherwise Oregonians, Keep your mask on, take your mandated vaccination, enjoy poor police protection, high crime, high murder rates, poor public education, and continue to enjoy a state filled with tatted up scumbags with multi-color hair.
How old ARE you?
She's Pro-Freedom(!)
PATHETIC IGNORANCE!!
https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1387049350111449097
If that's not enough, try this:
31 Studies and Articles Undercutting Utility of Masks for Stopping Covid
(see https://lists.grabien.com/list-studies-and-other-data-undercutting-utility-masks-stopping-c).
I have an uncle somewhere out that way, pretty much stuck due to nutbar wife who makes a lot more than him.
University of Washington Health Data (the driving force for Maskerbators) had “models” yesterday indicating “universal masking” beginning almost everywhere on August 25.
Which means she is behaving precisely as any self-anointed tyrant behaves. And she'll keep this up until enough people tell her ENOUGH! ... or until she's forced to behave herself and treat her fellow American citizens who have the sad misfortune of living in Oregon as adults ... equal to her under the law (assuming the law and Constitutional provisions still apply in Oregon).
What a truly disgusting, truly vile, arguably evil person Kate Brown has become.
The initial response by American citizens living in Oregon must be -- has to be -- DO NOT COMPLY. If only for the reason that wearing a mask outside to prevent transmission of a respiratory virus -- any respiratory virus -- is irrational behavior ... and I presume people are tired of acting irrationally and are damn tired of being controlled because some egomaniacal politician or, even worse, some power-hungry bureaucrat tells them they have to.
STOP IT! NOW! for heaven's sake! This sh!t should have ended at least eight months ago!
They are STUPID! The bottom half of the Bell Curve. Realize that, and prepare for their "disposal," and life becomes livable, if somewhat depressing, at the task to come.
Slave states and Free states
Years ago, in Oregon, environmental nazis got rid of paper bags to save trees and gave us the plastic bag. Later, the environmental nazis got rid of the plastic bag after all the environmental damage they caused, and gave us heavier plastic reusable dirty bags. The option added buying a paper bag for 5c. Pretty much back to all paper bags now with an added bureaucratic charging and keeping track of paper bags. Fun cycle by really really stupid people.
Freedom to wear or not wear a mask. That should be the priority of all community leaders.
They must be STOPPED, now!
I intend this post to provide clear documented evidence for all to clearly understand the flaws in mask mandates, and effectively resist this tyrrany.
I'm looking at a lot of links about the science of mask effectiveness presented en-masse by grey_whiskers in another thread. What I see is quite clear scientific consensus that masks are NOT effective at preventing or even significantly inhibiting transmission of viruses such as influenza or Covid-19.
I have studied each link in order from the first, selected the key conclusions in each, and copied them from the article to this post, and added my translation of what that really means).
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.18.21257385v1.full
Translation: Masks don't work to significantly reduce virus transmission. More research needed.
https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
Translation: Masks don't work to significantly reduce virus transmission.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29395560/
Conclusion: Wearing a surgical mask modifies significantly and clinically dyspnea without influencing walked distance.
Translation: Even a simple surgical mask has a negative health impact on a healthy person when walking for 6 minutes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32590322/
Translation: I personally experienced hypercapnic hypoxia (and nearly collapsed) after browsing 20 minutes in a grocery store wearing a simple surgical mask, and had to be helped outdoors and removing my mask. Even though I recovered quickly after removing the mask, this is very real for me. I now use an N95 ventilator with a battery powered filtered fan (available on Amazon and other places for around $50), which clears out the exhaled CO2 after each breath. With that, I can tolerate the mask for up to about 30 minutes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15340662/
Translation: That aint good, folks!
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26579222/
Translation: Wearing the mask may be more dangerous than Covid-19
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31159777/
Translation: Even though the mask does not catch all the virus particles, it does catch some, and then is unsafe to handle
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
Translation: Cloth masks are even more usless than surgical masks
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20049528v1
Translation: Seems a little like "getting slightly pregnant" Never mind how inconvenient it is...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047217v2
Translation: No masks (neither surgical nor N95) worked to prevent infection. Quarantine worked somewhat, but with other risks for quarantined workers
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2006372
It is also clear that masks serve symbolic roles. Masks are not only tools, they are also talismans that may help increase health care workers’ perceived sense of safety, well-being, and trust in their hospitals. Although such reactions may not be strictly logical, we are all subject to fear and anxiety, especially during times of crisis. One might argue that fear and anxiety are better countered with data and education than with a marginally beneficial mask.
Translation: A mask is not enough to prevent spread of infection (the public mask mandates will therefore not accomplish that goal)
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2749214
Translation: Among outpatient health care personnel, N95 respirators vs medical masks as worn by participants in this trial resulted in no significant difference in the incidence of laboratory-confirmed influenza.
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/188/8/567
Translation: This was a very extensive and detailed study in 2016 that concluded no significant difference in respiratory infections with either mask
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5779801/
Translation: This wasn't a "study", it was a long review of many other studies in many different environments. effectively says "we don't really know" (hint - probably looking for more funding in 2011)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19216002/
Translation: Masks don't significantly inhibit transmission of virus
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/
Translation: Cloth masks are actually WORSE than no mask
There's actually a lot more like the above, but it takes time to go through them in detail.
What is really notable, however, is that I have found NO studies like this that demonstrate ANY significant success for masks to significantly inhibit virus transmission.
https://populist.press/la-fire-captain-refuses-the-vaccine-in-epic-speechwow
From: Retain Mike Sent: Friday, August 13, 2021 11:37 AM Subject: Mask Mandate
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) came out with its latest policy about masks and our governor has mandated wearing them. But does it make any sense?
The best science the CDC can point to is a group of uncontrolled studies highlighting first such groups as 139 hairdresser clients, 382 sailors on the U.S.S. Roosevelt, 124 Beijing households, and 839 Thailand residents subject to contact tracing. All results come from observation followed by personal judgement, and none result from the mathematical disciplines used to evaluate complex environments. In the same article the CDC disparages the 2020 randomized controlled trial (RCT) in Denmark involving 4,862 participants, which found no benefit to wearing a mask to prevent infection.
The disciplines of a RCT divides participants into different groups on a randomized basis. Random assignment means that factors not specifically controlled can cancel each other out by appearing equally in both groups. One group receives the treatment (which in this case was the mask) and the other group does not. Researchers can isolate the one variable and are not able to introduce biases to produce a preferred outcome.
RCT’s are considered the highest standard for this type of research. Therefore, the most reasonable approach the CDC could take would be to use this study as one to which others would be evaluated. An especially valid approach, since the first four combined from their May scientific brief have less than half the participants of the Danish study.
Do Masks Work? https://www.city-journal.org/do-masks-work-a-review-of-the-evidence?wallit_nosession=1
Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers: A Randomized Controlled Trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33205991/
Science Brief: Community Use of Cloth Masks to Control the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-briefs/masking-science-sars-cov2.htm
Absence of Apparent Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from Two Stylists After Exposure at a Hair Salon with a Universal Face Covering Policy — Springfield, Missouri, May 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e2.htm
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