Month: August 2020

Oregon State Legislature sent this bulletin monday, august 21, 2020, by devadmin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 10, 2021

Governor Erodes Faith in Public Health Institutions
With New Mask Mandates

SALEM, Ore. – Governor Brown has issued two new mask mandates just weeks after lifting them. This time, for K-12 students – the group least likely to become seriously ill, be hospitalized, pass the virus to others, or die from COVID-19 – and state employees.

The death rate for children is lower than that of seasonal flu, for which the Governor failed to implement mask mandates in years prior. The new K-12 mask mandate requires everyone, regardless of vaccination status or natural immunity, to wear a mask at school.

Senator Dennis Linthicum (R-Klamath Falls) issued the following statement:

“The Governor and her administration have a responsibility to cut through the panic and provide the evidence, datum, and succinct scientific analysis that tells Oregonians what they can expect. Instead, OHA, like the CDC,  have constantly shifted goalposts and undermined Oregonians’ faith in our public health institutions.

“Schools have been shown to have lower case rates than the broader community, yet the message from the Governor is that our schools are one of the most dangerous places for them to be. That is an unsound and anti-scientific view. Many Oregon schools have been operating all summer with no masks and no significant outbreaks.

“All teachers, staff members, families and students over 12 have had ample time to choose to get vaccinated. Moms and dads, families and individuals all have a right to choose which medical procedures they engage in and to force kids needlessly into masks is abusive.

“Oregonians are tired of these dictatorial mandates from the Governor. One moment, she is pro-local control. Next, she puts forward unfounded and anti-scientific decrees like these. These newest mandates come with no limiting principle. COVID’s death rate is the lowest it has ever been thanks to the ever-growing herd immunity of Oregon’s population. Does the Governor expect Oregonians to take on and off the masks as she says until we have zero cases?  If so, this proves the Governor has a unrealistic mindset based on nothing but myths and fairytales.”

If we don’t stand for rural Oregon Values and common-sense… No one will!

Regards,

Dennis Linthicum
Oregon State Senate – District 28

Oregon State Legislature sent this bulletin Wednesday, august 11, 2020, by devadmin

Governor Kate Brown has successfully strangled Oregon’s health and vitality through unprecedented overreach regarding SARS-CoV-2. Her actions might have been “well-intentioned” but, regardless, they are fatal.

This year’s number of tragic deaths from suicide is outpacing prior year trend-lines. Additionally, suicide deaths currently exceed deaths caused by SARS-CoV-2. Pneumonia and influenza deaths also exceed SARS-CoV-2 deaths. Hospital utilization rates are being maintained at stable levels which are far below the numbers that would overwhelm our healthcare system. In other words, the SARS-CoV-2 “curve has been flattened.”

But the Governor is not one to be stopped by success. The latest gimmick is a proposed travel ban.

Yet there is no data suggesting Oregonians have been subjected to SARS-CoV-2 coming inbound from out-of-state sources. Air travel through Portland’s International Airport is nearly non-existent. Counties along Oregon’s borders with other states have suffered far fewer cases and deaths than the metro areas. There is no documented case-count spike due to wagonloads of settlers seeking a new life in our beautiful state.

Instead, U-Haul caravans are headed out-bound looking for freedom in other parts of our great nation.

The Infringements committed by the Governor, with the Democrat super-majority’s blessings, are too egregious to ignore. The executive branch’s preposterous parade of medical elites, bureaucrats and their media cohorts have needlessly frightened the people of Oregon.

Together we must stand against these unconstitutional, unwarranted and harmful actions. We must take a courageous stand for our sacred, God-given and Constitutionally guaranteed rights. The People of Oregon have already suffered too many indignities at the hand of the Governor and the Democrat super-majority.

Now is the time for change!

If we don’t stand for rural Oregon Values and common-sense… No one will!

Regards,

Dennis Linthicum
Oregon State Senate – District 28