To say that the political class in several states has become completely devoid of reality where COVID is concerned would necessarily be the understatement of the millennium. With six states still clinging to the pseudo-science of mandating masks, one state is seeking to make masking permanent.
Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington all still require most people to wear face masks in indoor public places regardless of vaccination status. This, of course, stands in ignorance of best practice science for two reasons. First cloth masks do nothing to thwart the Coronavirus, and two the quarantine mentality of the maskers retards the establishment of herd immunity.
But one state is taking the lunacy even further, illustrating that the Leftist ruling class in the United States is both ignorant and drunk on power.
The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) Rules Advisory Committee (RAC) met Thursday to begin the process of drafting an order to make the state’s indoor mask requirement permanent.
“Community stakeholders, including those from the hospitality and faith sectors, joined in the meeting,” local news reported. “People from the Seventh Day Adventists Church, the High Desert Museum, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and McMenamins were a part of the conversation.”
One of the more popular concerns during the meeting came from private business representatives who expressed concerns about people not wanting to comply with permanent mandates.
Dr. Paul Cieslak – the OHA’s medical director for communicable diseases and immunizations – said just because the rule would be deemed “permanent” doesn’t mean it will be enacted forever. “We can repeal it as well,” he said.
Why This Is Important
The potent mix of snowflake arrogance and ignorance is passed a dangerous level. It is at a level where it is actively diminishing freedom and the people of Oregon – as well as every Blue state and, in fact, the country – have only themselves to blame.
When we, as Americans, started to cede oversight of government – at every level – to the media and government “watchdogs,” simply because it was more enjoyable to do less important things, the process of reducing the levels of freedom and liberty became easier for totalitarians and Fascists.
It is a fact that even a kindergartener with a Playskool workbench set could understand. Cloth masks do tantamount to nothing to interrupt the COVID virus. The insidious Dr. Fauci openly admitted this early on in the so-called pandemic but changed his tune because it didn’t fit the narrative of election-year politics.
Today, even as he continues to deny his involvement in the development of COVID-19 gain of function testing and even as he continues to hawk vaccines that are increasingly coming under scrutiny for both actual effectiveness and the litany of side-effects they cause, Fauci admits he doesn’t even know if any of the vaccines are effective against the omicron variant.
Add to that the statistics-based fact that Florida, which employed one of the most unintrusive COVID responses in the nation, now exists as the state reporting the lowest daily coronavirus cases per capita: 7 per 100,000. Meanwhile, the states run by the Woke snowflakes of the Left are seeing spikes in cases: Michigan reporting 78 per 100,000, Pennsylvania reporting 53 per 100,000, and New York reporting 40 per 100,000.
Where Oregon is concerned, the website OregonLive.com reported December 3rd, 2021 that the state has 1,046 cases with 42 deaths. This from one of the states with the most draconian mandates.
The larger point here is not that the omicron variant is less potent than the common cold or that COVID has been affecting people for decades (the “19” in the virus name means it is the 19th detected strain of the coronavirus), it is that we are ceding our freedom, our right to freedom, to a group of people who were elected not because they would govern well, but because they marketed their line of political propaganda the best.
I read an appropriate post on social media about our Rights as Americans:
“For those who do not understand the meaning of ‘Rights’, we need to make it clear once and for all:
“The 2nd Amendment does not apply to semi-auto rifles, nor does it apply to bolt action rifles, pistols, or revolvers. The 2nd Amendment restricts government. The technology of the firearm is irrelevant. The restrictions on government remain the same, regardless of the firearm. The Second Amendment was not written to grant permission for citizens to own and bear firearms. It forbids government interference in the right to keep and bear arms, period. ‘The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.’
“This also applies to the other ‘Rights’. They are not granted, they stipulate inherent rights that the government may not prohibit.”
Add to that the ideological Left’s penchant for deeming everything a “Right” (housing, healthcare, a job, equity in outcome, etc.) and we start to reveal the motive behind the disingenuous activism of the Left: The ability of government to define our Rights; total control.
The Declaration of Independence makes it clear that government is not the bestower of Rights, but is meant to be the guardian against any usurpation of those Rights:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…”
Our Rights, all of them, are natural-born. Government bestows nothing. To that end, they have very little authority to impose mandates or force us to do anything we choose not to short of infringing on someone else’s Rights.
Government, in the United States of America, is not all-powerful. It has a very well-defined set of parameters that forbid it from trampling on our Rights. But ever since the Wilson administration, those parameters have been grotesquely blurred because the American people were deceived into ceding their freedoms to “experts,” experts like Dr. Fauci. And those experts make the political class dance on the ends of their profiteering strings, both financial and authoritative.
Unless we all decide to throw off the chains of what has now become an oppressive political class on par with the world’s most opportunistic dictatorships, we will exist in a country where the government gets to define what your freedoms are and those will never be inalienable.
Then, the idea of freedom will be a fiction.
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Only a political criminal class would insist on maintaining masks, that as the current South African omicron mutation has shown, prevent little COVID spreading,, but hide the face of the criminals on the streets who are the Democrat party socialist shock troops from getting identified in their missions of violent street redistribution of American wealth, destruction of our historical statues, political demonstrations to prove black lives matter more than others, or in some cases mask outright murder as a prelude to the theft of the next American elections. I’m surprised they don’t require masks before entering the family Planning facilities to keep them from being identified in the murder of their own babies. Why would ANYONE vote for people who hold human life so cheap, and integrity, honesty and the truth in even higher contempt? Apparently, President Fauci’s and governor Cuomo’s right to naked power grabs and make money selling books, has killed more people in the last 2 years than any patriot bearing arms. These days the democrats and their minions ignore the rights to Life and Liberty, and as usual only cling to their pursuits of happiness where immediate gratification is traded for votes and stolen ballots, the warped kind of criminal happiness that comes not from their Creator, but their unholy trinity government socialist God in three Persons,,,,,The Executive, the Congress and a tainted or packed Supreme Court.
I say go for it.. MAKE EVERYONE in the DNC, have to permanently wear a FULLY SEALED MASK, that gets GLUED onto their faces.. Till they suffocate!
How about a plastic garbage bag over their head and zip-tied to their neck… How are these jackass’s going to police the useless “mask wearing” … They can’t even stop the building burning, rioting, mugging, shooting, looting or people taking a hit with a capital “S” on the sidewalk. These arse’s really need to find the planet earth.
What of a Cement helmet. FROM THE NECK UP.
yea, then swimming lessons.
One important fact that WE The PEOPLE must address is that this
treasonous Democrat Party DOES NOT respect or follow our U.S. Constitution or our laws.
If We the People continue to allow this treasonous Democrat Party to disregard our U.S. Constitution and our laws,
then We the People have become servants, slaves and wards to this treasonous Democrat Party Dictatorship. 🙁 🙁 🙁
ITS not just the dems in office that are at fault, ITS THE GOP FOR lacking the balls to CHALLENGE and sue these mandates. ITS the cops who lack a spine, and REFUSE TO ENFORCE them.
Its the judges, who seem to not CARE THAT these mandates are unlawful and unconstitutional.
The citizens deserve what they get, they elected these ‘representatives’ and are stuck with them. Of course the ones in control are not really affected by such rules, they are above such trivialities!
This is why i would love, to make that Tv show / novel series, UNDER THE DOME a reality, WHERE THESE LEFTIST states/cities, GET DOMED UP. AND stays up!
“To say that the political class in several states has become completely devoid of reality where COVID is concerned would necessarily be the understatement of the millennium. With six states still clinging to the pseudo-science of mandating masks, one state is seeking to make masking permanent.”
Liberals have been masquerading for years as purveyors of American ideals and principles when, in fact, they represent the total opposite. The people of Oregon better wake up because if this power grab is successful, you can take it to the bank that it will have a domino effect across the country.
This is just sheer madness.
I have no desire to go to any of those states mentioned and I can easily avoid them when traveling so I don’t give a %$#@ about those states.
The list of states i will visit, or travel to, or through, is getting SMALLER and smaller by the year…
Way too many of these so called politicians are just pushing fear, and they want the people to be afraid of everything, the more things people are afraid the happier the politicians are, the satan worshipping DEMONcrats operate best when they push a high level of fear so that’s what they are doing. For the politicians everything is about fear of the people, fear of a bug, fear of everything, it comes down to fear, fear, fear. The more fear they can produce the more control they have over the people and fear and control is all they want.
Why should their residents care. It’s quite apparent their voters want to be ruled by those they elected.
THING is, its NOT all of those IN oregon, its JUST THE LEFTISTS in portland, who seem to have all the political sway there…