Oregon Gov. Kate Brown says schools this fall will not look like a normal year. And why not? Following Wednesday's meeting of the Healthy Schools Reopening Council, she said: “As COVID-19 continues to spread across Oregon, it has become clear that school this fall will not look like a normal year. Many, if not most Oregon students are in districts that will focus on online distance learning or have a hybrid model of some online education and some in-person classroom time… Whether or not kids are in school buildings this fall, we must provide the very best possible education for every single Oregon student, while ensuring that the school experience is as safe as possible for everyone: students, educators, support staff, parents, and the community at large."

Previously, she announced rules for kids. Children over the age of 2 and under the age of 12 are recommended, but not required, to wear a mask, face shield or face covering. The Oregon Department of Education is following CDC guidelines recommending students in 6th to 12th grade wear face coverings when physical distancing cannot be maintained. Oregon has had 550 kids of grade school age and younger test positive with only 10 hospitalized.

What should we make of two schoolboys in China reportedly collapsed and suddenly died within a week of each other after they were forced to participate in gym class while wearing face masks?

Conditioning for “compliance refers to a change in behavior that is requested by another person or group; the individual acted in some way because others asked him or her to do so (but it was possible to refuse or decline)" according to Breckler, Olson, and Wiggins in Social Psychology Alive. It’s pressuring compliance without pressure, it’s indoctrinating for the social good that affects future responses. This is verified in a study, Consistency-based compliance across cultures, “The tendency to feel committed to past personal choices and to behave consistently with these commitments has been shown to have a profound impact in various compliance settings.”

Never mind that it’s unhealthy to wear a mask and could have more dramatic health effects than the threat of COVID-19, especially for our children. Are the school guidelines really for the protection of students from getting a virus, or is it about conditioning students into being widgets in a socialistic society?

The use of face masks on healthy people during the coronavirus pandemic has been a major point of confusion among scientists and the public, and the WHO guidelines go against the CDC's face-mask recommendations. First, on April 6, the World Health Organization released guidance saying that healthy people don't need to wear face masks to prevent coronavirus spread. Masks should be for the sick, their caretakers, and healthcare workers.

Last Friday, the CDC recommended that all Americans wear face masks when they are in public. Then, the World Health Organization new guidance confirmed that healthy people don't need to wear face masks and that doing so won't provide added protection from the coronavirus. “There's some evidence that caretakers of infected people can protect their health by wearing masks,” the WHO guidance said, but "there is currently no evidence that wearing a mask (whether medical or other types) by healthy persons in the wider community setting, including universal community masking, can prevent them from infection with respiratory viruses, including COVID-19." WHO also said, “community masking could lead to a "false sense of security."

In the week that ended on June 27, there were 1,363 deaths in the United States involving COVID-19, which was a 91.9 percent drop from the peak.

Inconsistent thoughts have taken over from constantly hearing about the “new normal” of testing, contact tracing, wearing masks, social distancing, and quarantine, with the possibility of mandatory vaccinations and microchipping. Still, multiple studies have confirmed that sunlight kills COVID in a matter of minutes, as reported in a recent New York Post article, not to mention successful treatments with choloroquine or hydroxychloroquine, favilavir and others, even CBD.

All this has led to fear and irrational reactions. It’s a primary reason why many are suspicious of government’s COVID guidance, and frustrated over what is the truth. If you are concerned about over-regulating masks for students, social distancing, and virtual classes, run for school board in 2021.


--Donna Bleiler

Post Date: 2020-07-17 20:56:39