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On this day, August 22, 2002, President George W. Bush proposed to end the government's "hands-off" policy in national forests and ease logging restrictions in fire-prone areas.

Also on this day, August 22, 2014, the State of Oregon filed a $200 million suit against Oracle Corp. and several executives over the company's role in creating the troubled website for the state's online health insurance exchange.

Also on this day, August 22, 2020, demonstrators faced off in Portland with the two sides -- one aligned with a "Back the Blue" rally and the other a Black Lives Matter counter-demonstration -- reportedly largely ignoring police warnings. Ultimately, Department of Homeland Security officers deemed the gatherings unlawful and moved through the plaza, forcing the crowd to disperse.




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Self-Inflicted Biohazards
You’ve been trying not to think about this, haven’t you?

We have been indoctrinated through fear to wear face diapers. If you do not have or been exposed to COVID-19, then a face covering does not “save lives” from you not wearing a mask. Everyone is walking around with contaminated masks breathing in their own toxic air supposedly preventing breathing in the infectious COVID-19 virus. But research says it doesn’t protect you from the virus, only prevents you from widely spreading it. Wearing a face covering may even be worse for you, collecting virus particles on a cloth covering that you continue to breath in longer than a short exposure passing someone infected.

Forget about the virus, breathing carbon dioxide (CO2) can be pretty dangerous, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). They say, “inhaling high levels of CO2 may be life-threatening. Hypercapnia (carbon dioxide toxicity) can also cause headache, vertigo, double vision, inability to concentrate, tinnitus (hearing a noise, like a ringing or buzzing, that’s not caused by an outside source), seizures, or suffocation due to displacement of air.” There is a lot of evidence that most face-coverings are ineffective as protection against COVID-19. So what happens when people in gyms start fainting brutally hitting their heads, or they drive into oncoming traffic? What liability does the state have for permanently impairing your child from toxic fumes? Any state liability means taxpayers foot the bill.

Now comes the point of disposal. If face coverings are so effective, why do we not hear about disposing of them as infectious materials? Household hazardous waste includes infectious medical materials, and are not accepted at hazardous waste dumps. In some counties you can request a special container for a fee to dispose of medical infectious materials and improper disposal is considered a public health and safety hazard with a potential fine of up to $500. The Marion County Energy from Waste Facility (EFW) takes in each year approximately 700 tons in Marion County alone and 1,200 tons servicing other counties. Their disposal system effectively destroys any bacteria and diseased materials through incineration at 1800° to 2200° F. Can you imagine the increase in tons that masks would add?

So why isn’t mask disposal an issue to the Governor? The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends masks be treated as medical waste, and not throw them away with other garbage. “Used masks have respiratory secretions on them and can be dispersed and transmitted through the air.”

There is little research on survival rates for the virus on masks, but we can make some reasonable assumptions. Similar fibers such as papers, tissues, paper towels and toilet paper can detect the live virus for three hours and paper money can be detected up to four days. Cardboard surfaces will retain the virus for 24 hours. What is clear is that COVID-19 is terminal on masks within about four days at the most. The longest life is seven days on some plastics, which could be part of some masks, particularly shields. With such a short life span, why does WHO recommend medical waste disposal? Is it part of their scare tactic?

COVID-19 legal immunity could be on the agenda for the next special session. Instead of solving the problem, maybe just make it illegal. Could it be that Governor Brown knows that face coverings are all about power and control and have very little to do with preventing the spread of COVID-19? Why do healthy people need to wear masks if they aren’t spreading anything? Do you think making children wear a face covering conditions them to government control?


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2020-07-31 16:45:46Last Update: 2020-07-29 16:45:56



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