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SSG is either a clever troll or someone who has slept walked into a police state.
When you think you have made a procedure idiot proof your company employs a better idiot.
HS Runner Collapses at Finish Line Due to 'Complete Oxygen Debt,' Coach Points Finger at Mask Mandates
An Oregon high school track and field coach has brought up serious concerns about the state mask mandate after one of his runners collapsed at the finish line Wednesday.
“I am concerned with the mask rule,” Summit High School track coach Dave Turnbull told the Bend Bulletin. “This is what I am worried about and I said this at the beginning of the season.
“You get a kid running the 800 with a mask on, it is actually dangerous. They don’t get the oxygen that they need. This rule needs to change.”
High school athletes in Oregon are required to wear masks during competition under Oregon rules to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
The problem of wearing masks while running came to light during the 800-meter race.
Maggie Williams was racing the two laps around the track and on her way to break a school record when she fell right before the finish line.
“I was pushing so hard and everything went blurry and I just fell,” the high school junior said.
“But luckily I fell at the right spot and crossed the line with my head.”
She skidded across the line in a record-breaking 2 minutes, 8.45 seconds.
Canzano: State leadership fails to see the finish line with high school running mask rule https://trib.al/fAX3Eu6 pic.twitter.com/chWqu6cUyITurnbull called the situation “complete oxygen debt” and called on the Oregon Health Authority to follow Washington’s lead and lift the mask mandate for track and cross-country runners, according to OutKick.
— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) April 23, 2021
“Unfortunately in Oregon we have to follow the OHA,” Turnbull said, according to The Bulletin.
“And the OHA is not reasonable. I would like those people to come out and run an 800 with a mask on.”
The coach wrote a letter to the Oregon School Activities Association detailing the danger that wearing a mask could cause his athletes, the Oregonian reported.
Oregon is the only state in the country that requires its runners to wear masks while competing and high school coaches have seen more “gasping, oxygen-depleted runners” this season than they have in the past.
Oregonian columnist John Canzano said the rules need to change “before someone gets seriously hurt or dies.”
“[Maggie Williams’] first lap was a thing of beauty. The second one should have ended with her breaking the finish line on her feet, gasping but with a smile,” Canzano wrote.
“Instead, she ran out of oxygen. Her brain shut down. Her lungs quit. She landed on her forehead. Couldn’t hear. Couldn’t see. Her body crashed across the finish line. I wonder if state leaders will notice.”
Florida sees 7,341 new COVID-19 cases as US lifts pause on J&J vaccine use
7,157 Fully Vaccinated Americans Have Contracted COVID-19, 88 Dead: CDC
The number of recorded COVID-19 cases among Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the virus that causes it is now over 7,100, according to health officials.
The so-called breakthrough cases are reported by states to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which then releases the figures.
In its new update, the CDC reported that 7,157 people who were fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, still got the virus.
Most of the breakthrough cases, 64 percent, took place among women, while 46 percent were among men or women aged 60 years old or older.
Nearly 500 people who contracted COVID-19 despite being fully vaccinated required hospital care, though about a third of their illnesses were deemed unrelated to COVID-19. Eighty-eight, or 1 percent of the breakthrough patients, died. Eleven of the deaths were reported as not showing symptoms or not related to the disease.
The state-by-state breakdown of the cases is not made public.
The CDC first reported the breakthrough case numbers on April 15. The new update shows 1,343 such cases. The new figures are through April 20. The CDC expects to update the numbers every Friday, a spokeswoman said.
Because the current system relies on voluntary reporting from state health departments, there may be more breakthrough cases than the number the CDC publishes.
As of April 23, over 91 million Americans are fully vaccinated against the CCP virus.
Fully vaccinated refers to a person who received their second Moderna or Pfizer dose, or their single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine, two or more weeks prior.
None of the vaccines provide full protection, so health officials and experts say the breakthrough cases are not a cause for concern.
“While there are breakthrough cases and they are not surprising, they are exceedingly rare and in no way undermine the value of mass vaccination. Moreover, the breakthrough cases are uniformly less severe, showing the benefits of even imperfect immunity,” S. Mark Tompkins, professor of infectious disease at the University of Georgia, told The Epoch Times in an email.
The CDC expects thousands of breakthrough cases to occur, a spokeswoman said. “Vaccine breakthrough infections make up a small percentage of people who are fully vaccinated. CDC recommends that all eligible people get a COVID-19 vaccine as soon as one is available to them. CDC also continues to recommend people who have been fully vaccinated should keep taking precautions in public places, like wearing a mask,staying at least 6 feet apart from others, avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces, and washing their hands often,” she added. The CDC has said it is monitoring reported breakthrough cases for clustering by demographics, geographic location, time since vaccination, vaccine type, and virus lineage. It plans to soon focus on investigating only the breakthrough cases that result in hospitalization or death.
I am a person who believes that the needs of the many outweigh the perceived rights of the few.
During the current health crisis which seems to have graduated from COVID-19 to COVID-21 (due to the new variants), people who want to return to a somewhat normal society have a moral obligation to get vaccinated.
The old normal of unfettered freedom and access for those who do not want to get vaccinated is gone forever.
maybe in Canada... not so much the case in the USA.
When it comes to the US Constitution and the right there in, we're not talking about perceived rights of the few. We are talking about the specified rights of all legal US citizens. If you are a foreign visitor, your rights are based on treaty agreements and passport amendments. If you are in a country illegally, you have no rights.
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