As the Czar pointed out over the last year, the left doesn’t want this pandemic to end because it gives them what they crave most: CONTROL.
They can tell you what you need to wear over your face, where you can & can’t go and how you must live your life. They can pick and choose which businesses get to open, which ones need to close and how they can operate those businesses.
So it shouldn’t come as a shock that the liberal in Oregon are looking at making the facemask mandate permanent.
They say making it permanent is just a technicality and to trust them, they’ll do away with the requirement once condition are met.
Michael Wood, administrator of the state’s department of Occupational Safety and Health, says the permanent requirement is necessary to address a technicality in state law that requires a “permanent” rule to keep current restrictions from expiring.
The Associated Press reports that:
“the idea has prompted a flood of angry responses, with everyone from parents to teachers to business owners and employees crying government overreach. Wood’s agency received a record number of public comments, mostly critical, and nearly 60,000 residents signed a petition against the proposal. Opponents also are upset government officials won’t say how low Oregon’s COVID-19 case numbers must go, or how many people would have to be vaccinated, to get the requirements lifted in a state that’s already had some of the nation’s strictest safety measures”.
Republican State Senator Kim Thatcher says:
“when will masks be unnecessary? What scientific studies do these mandates rely on, particularly now that the vaccine is days away from being available to everyone? Businesses have had to play ‘mask cop’ for the better part of a year now. They deserve some certainty on when they will no longer be threatened with fines.”