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Portland stages a funeral for the death of face masks
Today, at 4:30 Pacific Time, a group calling itself Mask Bloc will gather in the courthouse square in Portland, Oregon dressed in black, with masks, to mourn the official end of mask requirements in healthcare settings in Oregon. Mask Bloc’s tweets are now protected, but the gathering invited...
unherd.com
Group in Portland protests lifting of mask mandate in medical settings
Beginning April 3, the mask requirements for health care settings is lifting, but groups in three states about to lift that mandate are protesting its repeal.Po
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Attendees will gather to mourn the end of 'public health'
Today, at 4:30 Pacific Time, a group calling itself Mask Bloc will gather in the courthouse square in Portland, Oregon dressed in black, with masks, to mourn the official end of mask requirements in healthcare settings in Oregon.
Mask Bloc’s tweets are now protected, but the gathering invited protesters to “”Wear funeral black, wear your mask, bring signs” to lament “the end of infection control in OR”. It’s billed as a “funeral” for “public health”.
I'm wondering if these folks actually feel this strongly about this topic, or if over the course of 3 years, they've allowed "caring about covid prevention" to become their main personality trait and core part of their identity, and they don't want to see it go away.
There was something similar that happened in NY when they lifted theirs
— MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK: Demonstrators sing a song about wanting mask mandates reinstated | — MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK: Demonstrators sing a song about wanting mask mandates reinstated | By Shot Out Radio | Facebook
— MEANWHILE IN NEW YORK: Demonstrators sing a song about wanting mask mandates reinstated
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It seems sort of like the people who were the last remaining folks at the Occupy Wall Street protests...like it gave them a sense of identity and purpose and didn't want to see it go away.
And I was honestly unaware that there were areas left that had mask mandates in the US. When parts of Canada (like Ontario) had lifted their mask mandates on public transit and hospitals back in June 2022, I guess I just assumed that everywhere in the US had already done so by that point given that Canada was stricter in general with regards to covid measures than the US was.