Oregon bureaucrats are proposing making the state’s mask mandate and social distancing requirements permanent.
In their proposal, the state’s health bureaucrats admit that while the mandates were adopted “to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” they want to keep them beyond the May 4 expiration date.
“Although the rule must be adopted as a permanent rule, its purpose is to address the COVID-19 pandemic,” the proposal reads. “Oregon intends to repeal the rule when it is no longer necessary to address the pandemic.”
Notice that the proposal doesn’t outline how officials will determine when mandates are “no longer necessary,” hence the permanency.
Meanwhile, in the UK, bureaucrats are suggesting that mask mandates and social distancing requirements will be in place “for years.”
“Ramsay told the BBC on Sunday that masks and social distancing could be required for ‘several years,’ or ‘at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are, and the numbers have come down everywhere,’” reported RT.
Keep in mind that, a year ago, the public was initially told to wear the masks for a few weeks to keep hospital beds from being overwhelmed, which certainly isn’t happening now.