In the state of Oregon, the rules governing a declaration of a “public health emergency” expire after 180 days, and the rules and regulations contained inside the declaration cannot be extended by fiat, they require legislative approval. One of the components of their current regulatory requirements is indoor mask wearing for the public.
To avoid the issue of an expiration of authority, the unelected health officials in Oregon are now proposing a permanent extension of the “public health emergency” that would permit them to continue the arbitrary rules and regulations they created within the emergency declaration.
As a consequence, the regulation requiring indoor mask wearing –along with other measures– would be extended until the bureaucrats removed it.
OREGON – […] Oregon’s indoor mask mandate was imposed from May 2020 to June 2021, lifted briefly, and then reimposed in August. The state’s current mandate is in place until February, but that apparently isn’t good enough in a state where 75% of adults have been fully vaccinated.
The Oregon Health Authority’s Rules Advisory Committee has begun drafting a permanent set of rules for the state’s mask mandate. The permanent rule can be ended at any time by state health leaders, but given Oregon’s track record, which includes at one point mandating that athletes in outdoor sports wear masks during competition, it’s safe to say such a “permanent” rule would be around for quite a while. (read more)
Mock them — ruthlessly. . . .
Shoot them – ruthlessly. They certainly would do that to us, without remorse
the irony of course is they are shooting themselves, in the foot, in their immune system, in the ballot box, in their heart tissue, in their children’s eyes, in their nervous system, in the judicial apparatus, in the medical journals, and, eventually, the mandate of heaven.
I second that motion, and add “Twice to make sure”.
Yes, they would.
Amazing isn’t it? To avoid the issue of whether we have the authority, we’ll just grant ourselves permanent authority – this was always about seizing permanent power.
Guess what? They ARE fascists.
Fools all.
Come sa va Steve
Crap, can’t edit my typo
I know what you meant. Probably most here do, so don’t sweat it. And yes, the ability to edit is nice. No matter how careful I think I’m being, I have to edit most comments I make. Probably because my hands and brain are not as coordinated with each other as they used to be.
That state needs an enema!
What we need are your prayers.
Oregon is another beautiful State that has been turned into a cesspool by Leftist lemmings.
And they are coming for your state Pokey. Don’t worry , I’ll post snarkey comments about it between ops in my state. To all of you -cut the crap.We are in a fight. Join or get out of the way but mostly STFU if your understanding of a situation is a 15 second glance at the headlines.
This is the crux of it. The communist racist democrats are like locusts. They fled here to Oregon in the 80s and 90s to escape the burgeoning taxes and communist policies. Forgot why they left and proceeded to vote for more of the same here. And since they settled along the I-5 corridor, they managed to flip a lot of red counties blue. And since those were the most populated, they managed to override the votes of the rural counties.
Pray it doesn’t happen to you.
They did it to Nevada & are busily working on Idaho & Arizona.
Time for rural counties to fight back. Along with simply not complying with the insanity coming out of Salem, rural people in Oregon are working to change the border so that they are represented by people who share their values and culture (Greater Idaho). It’s the best solution to the problem you outlined above, and it’s something that other rural counties in blue states dominated by big cities need to consider.
Sparky ain’t doing chit, call me when you’re done talking.
Bet your life on it Gary. Send your number.
Pretty aware that most of the people in Oregon, who don’t live in the Portland area, are not lefties. Just to help you with whatever you think you are accomplishing, I also live in a formerly Red State which has become a leftist drug disseminating center. I am too old to lead a revolt, but good luck with yours. My State is also beautiful and that is also a main reason Leftists want to come here. They pick the prettiest places they have seen to infest. Take no offense, I meant none.
While completely true there are a fair number of us who are NOT leftist lemmings. Many of us are stuck here by age, family, finances etc. I would have left a few years ago had I been able to but the die is cast for me and I have been here since 1978. I am in North central Pooregon on the east side and it is not so leftarded and vile. I refuse to tip my hand here of my ops or readiness if and WHEN the shtf. I am almost 70 and have little to lose.
There is a bunch of us in Western Oregon who have loved this home for a long, long time….we are still doing our part to fight back….and we are old now too…
And it started in the 70’s when they declared trees off limits for anything but unbridled growth & tinder for massive forest fires…
I’ve had to drive through Oregon on the I5 several times this year.
On the way North, I make it from Weed/Yreka to Longview on one tank of gas, keeping it at 74 mph on cruise control on the fast lane. Nobody passes me!
On the way South, if the Siskiyou Pass looks like an issue, I’ll stop right off the freeway at Ashland and gas up. The people down there don’t much care for the commies in Portlandia.
Pretty much, I ignore the place… no more stops for lunch in Roseburg, no more spending the night (unless chains are required) at Grants Pass or Medford… forget it.
Ashland is the hippy dippy part of that area. Full fledged commies and tree huggers.
Please don’t feed the commies.
“Please don’t feed the commies.” Love this! 🙂
You are right, I live in Medford, born here in 55, Ashland was cool in the 60’s and 70’s, anti establishment free spirit hippies, now they run the town and have gone commie.
Oregon resident…. for great fuel prices, Seven Feathers casino in Canyonville is top notch and in a conservative patriot county, Douglas.
Medford is known by locals as Methford due to the drug culture there. I believe there was a recent half-million pound illegal pot bust recently in the Medford area.
Ashland is artsy and as others mentioned, kinda hippie. The I-5 corridor, in general, isn’t a true representation of south central Oregon IMO. Once off the highway in either direction, it’s like a different planet. I drive it a lot but don’t live in the core, rather at the ocean.
Though I still see some people wearing masks, signs are gone and no one talks about it and our Sheriff posted a public statement that his department won’t enforce any Covid-related mandates. What remains is what businesses decide to do privately. I guess if they want to commit business suicide who am I to stop them. Tough life in rural Oregon.
I do not call almost $4.00 a gallon for gasoline great prices. Pooregon has the 5th highest gas prices in the USA. I live in rural Pooregon. Poverty with a view as I call it.
I dare you to find better prices anywhere in the south central state. Truckers love that place. Truth. Sounds like you hate a subsistence economy. Fair enough. I don’t mind. Glad to be rid of the pretentious narcissistic Californians I was born into nearly 70 years ago.
Feel free to take a different route. I5 is a narrow slice of Oregon.
You can’t go up hwy 97 though. That is a death trap two lane road.
The masks are only the visible battleground, the battle is to eliminate legislative power through fear and a permanent public health pretend emergency. Climate change wasn’t getting the job done anymore and was losing its effectiveness to frighten adults although too many children are still enthralled under the spell. Still, despite all the fuel dumped on this fire it hasn’t burned everything down yet. As the last vestiges of the old republic are swept away, the regional states will be kept in line by their governors and this death star said someone once. Heck, if it works well in Oregan and other states, the feds might be able to make their claim to permanent emergency status successful. It’s just too darned scary to take the time to deliberate anything. We must act now!! Warp speed ahead.
Anyone stuck in Oregon know how this is going to go down in the rural parts? Do they even obey it now?
Outside of the I-5 corridor, not much.
Only place I noticed masks recently was at the grocery store. It still has the same lexan shields at the register that they had since March 2020. However, the clerks don’t wear face shields anymore, just masks. Some customers still wear masks, some don’t. Other businesses, nada. However, I don’t eat out, and there are only a couple restaurants in the area anyway, so no idea on that.
We get a lot of people from Salem and Portland and I notice they don’t wear masks or social distance. They’re mostly around to hit the dunes with their buggies and visit their vacation homes. I remember, back when Covid infections were a thing, our county had practically zero until July 4 2020 when the tourists hit, then it spiked.
For me, non-issue. I’ve never paid much attention to government pinheads anyway so I’m what one might term a militant. Old, dealt with plenty of viruses in my life, and dealt with Covid; life goes on. One good thing about Oregon where I live is we’re open carry, shall issue LCH for concealed carry and NFA items are legal and all can be and are enjoyed daily on our own properties. We’re ready. The Communists will do what they do.
Good to hear. I’m in a blue state with a mask mandate but try and ignore it everywhere I go. Today I had enough at one of the worst offending stores in my area. No one cared, and I was the only one without a mask.
I’ve been going to the dunes at Coos Bay for over 20 years, they were closed until Memorial weekend in 2020. The reason it was so quiet there. We were last there middle of Sept and it was busy as all get out. No covid in the sand I guess. I had to live near Portland for my job but I’m now retired and too old to move. Thank goodness we live on acreage, only thing that makes this nonsense bareable.
Love the protective shields of all types ‘cause the virus is not smart enough to go around them.
I sell bridges for a living so need to know these things…
No
I’m stuck here for now. Lotta people over here in Central Oregon not wearing masks now. Most employers still requiring though including mine. I live 8n 9ne of the most beautiful places in the US but I feel like I’m in hell
Yep, even with the insanity coming out of Salem I still try to focus on the reality that the state itself is breathtakingly gorgeous and we can still, locally, leave our homes unlocked and keys in the vehicles and not worry about stuff getting stolen when in town.
I empathize with younger folks who are still working and dealing with the bureaucracy. Formidable. Like a friend of mine, now dead, who did well in business once said, life is hell then you die. Perhaps true but the forest and fresh air make it a bit more pleasant along the way.
Yep-everyone on the entire west coast & Canada are out of their freaking minds with covid hysteria. STILL!
I posted on another thread about our AA Pacific Region Service Assembly in March was supposed to be held in Portland this year.
It was cancelled “to be safe” so now it’s on zoom. Nothing like sitting in a chair all day long for 2 days at a conference with 1500 people on zoom.
Unfortunately, Idaho is part of the moronic districting lumped in with the idiots living in fear.
It is mind boggling to me…I just don’t get it.
No way would I move to Oregonn
Yeah, it rains all the time 🙂
However, when I view the forest only feet from my living room window and see no humans around, I consider the suffering to be worth it.
For large swaths of rural Oregon, and in reality most of the state is rural geographically, all this Covid nonsense is a non-issue. If I didn’t have the internet and read fine forums like this one, I’d hardly know it was a thing.
Oregon has the rainy coast. The nice central valley. And the east 1/3 of the state is arid/desert. Pick your poison. There is no state sales tax either.
It sounds beautiful where you live! I’d love to see the forest only feet from my window and no humans.
We have deer, bobcats, coyotes, a great horned owl and a mating pair of red tail hawks living in the forest behind our house. And this is with a Safeway only one mile away. Hard to leave.
With the exception of bobcats (which are apparently around), I see and hear all of that here on my now not as rural two Nebraska acres.
As someone that lives in a suburb of Portland, the mask mandate really affects me. I don’t go to the gym as I cannot exercise in a mask. Venues to meet people worth meeting don’t exist anymore. It’s difficult to connect with people as we’ve become dehumanized through masks. Church is my only escape.
I debate whether to stand my ground and fight or flee to a red state. As too many people here like to comply, I fear that Oregon is lost.
You could run as a DINO is your in a nuttty Communist-Democrat controlled area. Thats what I guy did in NJ back in the 90’s. Caused a storm and exposed the fake right vs left politics of that state as well. I think guerilla campaigns are the way to go. He spent a couple hundred dollars and won the Democrat nomination for congress.
People exercise in masks?! That’s absolutely insane. I don’t blame you for not going there…can’t imagine ever working out with a mask on.
You said you’re in a suburb of Portland, is there a lot of crime and/or chaos caused by blm and antifa or other crud going on besides the mask nonsense?
The violence is mostly contained in Portland, though it has started to seep out.
The “other crud” is people who don’t think for themselves. I know that a lot of people here are tired of covid mandates (liberals too), but not enough people have the will to push back. That’s the real pandemic.
Your first paragraph delineates perfectly the true purpose of perpetual mask mandates.
I live in southern Oregon. I haven’t worn a mask since April 2020. I refuse. It’s so sad how many sheeple live here. This state is full of pansies. That’s why OHA and the twat in the governor’s mansion get away with this. Most of the patriots have already fled the state, and her minions are all that’s left. Even conservative areas of the state still follow her “mandates”.
As soon as we can get out of this state we plan on it. Pray for those of us stuck here fighting with little to no help.
I loved Oregon when I visited twice in the early 90’s.
I lived (noticed the word lived) in NE Oregon. Two weeks before I moved I had some crazy yell at me.
Bi-Mart is only store any of us non-maskers wear a mask, but only inside. When I exited the store, i yanked it off. From behind me I heard a female voice scream “You are required to wear masks in public” not once but several times even adding in a few other words.
I just kept walking, and prayed that I’d make it to my car.
NE Oregon used to be VERY conservative. Great place to live and raise your family. In the last year there have been 2 or more murders, one was a drive by. Heard fights are even bad in the HS. Some are still trying but I just gave up and moved. Crime is escalating, as it is with all of Oregon. H3LL in Umatilla, most of the signs are in Spanish, even many of the announcements from the School Board.
Can’t believe how relaxed I have become being back in America again. Don’t have to think about having a mask handy. I can go to church with no masks or distancing required regardless of the numbers. People open doors, say ma’am and care about you.
Should have seen the crowd at at the tree lighting and light parade. The light parade was so very awesome, even though it was around in high 20s & low 30s LOL
Couple of shorts from the parade…Listen to the excited kids.
I am curious, does anyone outside of the valley comply?
We did in NE OR, but only one store. Think it was due to the store, the workers and who ran it. Do believe no one wanted to see the store or its people get in trouble.
No, not much around where I am. I have NOT ever worn a mask except at the doc’s office and refused to wear one at the local hospital and dared them to deny me treatment at urgent care. They actually got the manager of the hospital to threaten me with the cops, sheriffs and who knows maybe the state police. They finally relented and ER doctor was fine with it. The ADA protects the disabled from face coverings if they are diasbled and have certain conditions that wearing a mask is possibly bad for you. I am disabled from 16 shoulder and spine surgeries, have PTSD and severe claustrophobia from surviving a mine cave in and being trapped almost 300 feet underground for almost 20 hours.
those poor darlings in the photo.
such abuse.
I plan to write my dem rep who recovered. Why did she take the treatment and keep it an open secret?
Don’t be coy. Who is your rep?
Gwen Moore brought in by Pelosi while battling covid to sit in the balcony to vote in January.
March and rally today in NYC.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/12/go-brandon-hundreds-take-streets-new-york-city-protest-vaccine-mandates-video/
This one looks smaller than previous ones.
However, during firey but mostly peaceful protests for social justice all rules are suspended.
Executive Order # 11490 , a declared National Emergency puts most government agencies / command of ‘infrastructure’ ( communications , ports , food , energy , etc …) under FEMA control . ( For how long ? )
The never ending emergency is not a bug , its a feature.
Bright Light News .com
Doctors shows even FIVE masks are worthless , virus aerosol passes right through – Jul 25 , 2021
Someone with intelligence, (won’t come from government,) needs to define & uphold definition of “EMERGENCY.”
Then the sheeple need to spend a week in a REAL EMERGENCY ROOM, washing blood, vomit, feces & flesh off floors, beds, themselves.
Mandate that!
It lets you know where you stand with them. Then they have the nerve to ask you to contribute to their re-election!
Oregon is beautiful, second only to California.
If 2M of you moved to OR you could flip the state R.
Being a citizen of Oregon for most of my life I can tell you with a certainty that if you live on the I-5 corridor from Eugene north to Portland, you might s well be living in Commifornia. Yes, it’s beautiful. But’s it’s no fun living under a one party rule. And the communist racist democrats rule with an iron fist.
Spot-on and I did note the arson attack got stopped at Roseburg last summer; interesting that it hit the south state corridor perfectly. If one looks at county seats for the south state, the larger ones population wise are in the corridor. Vulnerable. I’d expect, beyond the Covid op, drugs and arson to be the Communist tools of choice in the south state. Create a crisis and ‘save it’.
All we can do is stay vigilant with regard to the humans in our local government, public services and schools. It’s the unelected bureaucrats who are the most difficult-to-excise threat IMO, legally anyway.
Communist rule is part of why I chose a deep red county and to live away from any city or town. Politics can change but geography will far outlive either myself or my enemies. I wouldn’t recommend it to a young person though, presuming they value freedom and liberty in the wider sense.
This actually ISN’T SO BAD if you are into facial piercing and could be a boon for for a piercing business. If masks are going to be permanent then you can do away with the face mask straps by having 4 “metal snap fasteners” installed on you face. Two on the cheeks and two more on the lower jaw. Then you can simply “snap” your face masks on and off with ease!!!
Even easier: Magnets!
You still live in Oregon?
I live in Oregon, about 20 miles outside Portland, and haven’t worn a mask since last summer except at the Drs or Dentist office. Yesterday I went to the local Safeway to shop for food and I was the only one in the store without a mask. No one said a word to me. For the last few weeks I would see at least one and some times several maskless but not yesterday. Rather disappointing but I’m seeing more and more as time goes on. I think that many people want to take them off but are afraid of the possible backlash. Many are so afraid of the cov I bet they will never change. I would love to move but at my age I don’t want to deal with all the work involved in a move. If I didn’t live on acreage outside the city I would be going crazy. God help me if I have to go to a hospital right now, I’m not sure just what I’d do.
Here in sunny Nebraska, masks are the exception (except in medical facilities). Although we are constantly being told by “health professionals” that there is a big covid surge and hospitals (especially the rural ones) are dangerously overcrowded, no one seems to care. Yes, we have covid cases; yes, some of them die. However, people do die of other things, too, and we don’t panic over that, either. Our state in general has dealt with covid in a sensible way (we already had suitable emergency planning), and Nebraska now has not only the lowest unemployment in the country, it has the lowest in the country’s recorded history.
“God help me if I have to go to a hospital right now, I’m not sure just what I’d do.”
If there was ever a time to be healthy and self-sufficient, now’s the time. I thank God daily for the blessings of health in old age. I was skeptical of the medical community most of my life, at least since the early 80’s, but it’s deteriorated markedly during the Covid op.
I hope the violence and anarchy in Portland doesn’t make it out into the surrounding areas. I have a feeling the thugs will get some good old fashioned meeting with God if/when they take their program out into the rural areas. Sheriff will look the other way. Stuff happens.
Oregon has mail in voting. California does now also. We have no chance to vote these idiots out. They can cheat.
Live in Arizona & last week got what looked like junk mail, addressed to “Resident,” & on opening on fold, it’s a real, mail-in ballot. I saved it so I can formally make complaint.
This is over the top government intrusion. We should shame them.
Sadly, you can’t shame people who have no morals.
Follow the Behavioural Science.
Kill them.
Oregon, debate this document….
https://rationalground.com/masks-are-not-source-control/
If you can’t abort em’, mask them, inject them, isolate them, and make them suffer pain!!!
Let’s Go Hitler!
“My program for educating youth is hard. Weakness must be hammered away.
“In my castles of the Teutonic Order a youth will grow up before which the world will tremble.
“I want a brutal, domineering, fearless, cruel youth. Youth must be all that. It must bear pain. There must be nothing weak and gentle about it. The free, splendid beast of prey must once again flash from its eyes…
“That is how I will eradicate thousands of years of human domestication…
“That is how I will create the New Order.” – Adolf Hitler, 1933
At this point it seems to me that we only have non-compliance left. Just do not wear the mask. That’s all.
There are more of us than there are of them.
I read that in Moscow the citizens just stopped going to restaurants that required masks. No fuss, no demonstrations, just a plain old boycott – that worked.
Oxygen deprived students will learn how to be well rounded Marxists totally reliant on what google tells them and dependent on the government.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/339835999367791/permalink/6837571449594181/
My idiot Governor, what can I say?…
IT IS TIME for ALL REAL AMERICANS TO STAND UP and shout ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! There have been many of studies showing MASK DO NOT STOP the COVID VIRUS, in FACT on study compare the MASK to a Chain Link Fence trying to STOP Mosquitoes. The Virus Spore pass right through the MASK! Where is FOLLOW THE SCIENCE DEMOCRATS, Oh, there are NONE the DEMOCRATS just want to TAKE AWAY all of our FREEDOMS!
The sad part is simple repeat of HISTORY for you HISTORY BUFFS who know it better than I. There is this GREAT PUSH to impose Karl Marx’s COMMUNIST MANIFESTO upon the WORLD using HITLER’S NAZI take over of Germany as the blueprint. The DEMOCRATIC PARTY for years have INDOCTRINATED the Black Community that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is their friend and savor (but review HISTORY the DEMS were the originators of the KKK, Jim Crow and other ANTI-BLACK Organizations since the mid 1800s)! SLAVERY was abolished in the mid 1860s by the REPUBLICAN PARTY and the United States was ridiculed by other Countries who were practice SLAVERY and some still do TODAY an example is CHINA and INDIA!
WHAT EVERYONE in Oregon and other states are missing is that the DEMOCRATIC PARTY is pushing GLOBALISM on the United States which again follows the Karl Marx COMMUNIST MANIFESTO for ruling people. So those who DO NOT LIKE FREEDOM then move to CALIFORNIA, OREGON, NEW YORK or any other BLUE STATE so you can live in FEAR 24/7!
HOWEVVER, if you want to live with FREEDOM of RELIGION, SPEECH and the ability to achieve the AMERICAN DREAM the STAND UP and be HEARD! This starts by getting out and VOTING OUT this CONSTITUTION HATERS and folks who view the citizens of the World as lesser Human Beings that the Elite. Oh, for those who hate SLAVERY it will be the norm.