Idaho regional health board repeals mask mandate after hearing their hospital is overflowing

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How stupid can they be? .
You had to ask?
Well, a member ofa REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD said...""Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'" he told the medical professionals who testified."

Another one said "I personally do not care whether anybody wears a mask or not. If they want to be dumb enough to walk around and expose themselves and others, that's fine with me," Kirby said. "Nobody's wearing the damned mask anyway... I'm sitting back and watching them catch it and die. Hopefully I'll live through it."

It's a bit funny actually! AS you read through the article, you see that ultimately, it's just different levels of people being cowards. Just all cowards. Front line staff ask for help? Meh. Let's get the governor to do something so we aren't the bad guys. Pathetic.

Good luck Republicans! Don't die! At least, I HOPE you don't. But really, more than anything, I hope that health professionals will be able to show the amount of care board members show to individuals they should be trying to protect.
 
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You had to ask?
Well, a member ofa REGIONAL HEALTH BOARD said...""Something's making these people sick, and I'm pretty sure that it's not coronavirus, so the question that you should be asking is, 'What's making them sick?'" he told the medical professionals who testified."

Another one said "I personally do not care whether anybody wears a mask or not. If they want to be dumb enough to walk around and expose themselves and others, that's fine with me," Kirby said. "Nobody's wearing the damned mask anyway... I'm sitting back and watching them catch it and die. Hopefully I'll live through it."

It's a bit funny actually! AS you read through the article, you see that ultimately, it's just different levels of people being cowards. Just all cowards. Front line staff ask for help? Meh. Let's get the governor to do something so we aren't the bad guys. Pathetic.

Good luck Republicans! Don't die! At least, I HOPE you don't. But really, more than anything, I hope that health professionals will be able to show the amount of care board members show to individuals they should be trying to protect.

I'm not sure how to take that Kirby guy's comments. Is he really okay with it or is he just so disgusted with everybody that he's given up?
 
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I'm not sure how to take that Kirby guy's comments. Is he really okay with it or is he just so disgusted with everybody that he's given up?
To me, he sounds tired and defeated.
 
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I'm not sure how to take that Kirby guy's comments. Is he really okay with it or is he just so disgusted with everybody that he's given up?
Knowing the state next door, at least that part of it, he has given up in disgust. And for good reason, that part of the state is very independent orientated and don't like government types telling them what to do.
 
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cbsnews said:
Board members overseeing the operations of Idaho's public health districts are appointed by county commissioners and not required to have any medical experience.
I'm speechless.
 
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And for good reason, that part of the state is very independent orientated and don't like government types telling them what to do.
"Don't tell me that I can't spread a deadly virus around if I want to!!!" :mad:
 
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"Don't tell me that I can't spread a deadly virus around if I want to!!!" :mad:
I recall reading about people who were convicted of attempted murder for knowingly infecting people with HIV.

In 2020, knowingly spreading a deadly virus seems to be the conservative policy for thinning the herd.
 
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And how many of those who have the virus caught it while wearing masks?
The mask isn't to protect the person wearing it as much as it is to protect others from them. If both people wear masks and social distance, approx. 6' apart, the chances of catching the virus are greatly reduced.
That's why the people who won't wear them are so selfish because they won't help to keep other people safe.
 
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And how many of those who have the virus caught it while wearing masks?

Who knows? But we do know Idaho residents are less likely to be wearing masks.

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Knowing the state next door, at least that part of it, he has given up in disgust. And for good reason, that part of the state is very independent orientated and don't like government types telling them what to do.

Idaho is the home of many paranoid, far-right, anti-government groups, so it's not surprising.
 
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The mask isn't to protect the person wearing it as much as it is to protect others from them. If both people wear masks and social distance, approx. 6' apart, the chances of catching the virus are greatly reduced.
That's why the people who won't wear them are so selfish because they won't help to keep other people safe.
Seems everyone has forgotten all about the virus being on surfaces. Touch an object that an infected person touched and then adjust your mask. Tag, you are infected! I would be willing to wager that more people are infected because of wearing masks than are saved by them.
 
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Seems everyone has forgotten all about the virus being on surfaces.
Which is why you wear the mask; to reduce the likelihood that your (infected) spit/phlegm/mucus is breathed/sneezed/coughed onto those surfaces.

IOW you answered your own question of a few posts (#11) before. Congratulations.
 
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Which is why you wear the mask; to reduce the likelihood that your (infected) spit/phlegm/mucus is breathed/sneezed/coughed onto those surfaces.

IOW you answered your own question of a few posts (#11) before. Congratulations.
So you catch it by wearing the mask, which doesn't stop you from breathing on others BTW, because most people don't wear them right, or if they do, only sometimes. They are a joke. You are still touching items others touch. So you are still transferring the virus with or without the mask.
 
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Seems everyone has forgotten all about the virus being on surfaces. Touch an object that an infected person touched and then adjust your mask. Tag, you are infected! I would be willing to wager that more people are infected because of wearing masks than are saved by them.

It's not that simple. Merely adjusting your mask or touching your face after touching a contaminated surface won't necessarily mean you will become ill. It takes a certain amount of virus inoculum entering into the body (and the skin itself is a barrier) to actually become ill from the Coronavirus. A virus is not akin to cooties or a magical, mysterious force.
 
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So you catch it by wearing the mask, which doesn't stop you from breathing on others BTW, because most people don't wear them right, or if they do, only sometimes. They are a joke. You are still touching items others touch. So you are still transferring the virus with or without the mask.
Why are you complaining?
Mask wearers aren’t protecting themselves, they’re protecting other people.
 
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