{"id":439556,"date":"2021-04-21T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=439556"},"modified":"2021-04-21T18:05:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T22:05:47","slug":"oregon-governor-allows-indoor-full-contact-sports-after-administration-proposed-permanent-mask-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oregon-governor-allows-indoor-full-contact-sports-after-administration-proposed-permanent-mask-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Governor Allows Indoor Full-Contact Sports After Administration Proposed \u2018Permanent\u2019 Mask Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foregon-governor-allows-indoor-full-contact-sports-after-administration-proposed-permanent-mask-rule%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=439556&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Democratic Governor of Oregon Kate Brown announced Tuesday that the state will loosen <a href=\"https:\/\/sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us\/DHSForms\/Served\/le3461.pdf?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\"><span class=\"s1\">restrictions<\/span><\/a> and allow \u201cindoor full-contact sports\u201d to resume after members of her administration proposed a \u201cpermanent\u201d mask mandate earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The governor\u2019s office and the Oregon Health Authority said the easing of restrictions is being carried out in order to recognize \u201cthe importance of athletics for the physical and mental health of Oregon\u2019s youth athletes,\u201d although the new rules apply to people of all ages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/2021\/04\/as-covid-19-hospitalizations-jump-and-oregon-reports-580-new-cases-governor-loosens-restrictions-on-indoor-sports.html\"><span class=\"s1\">The Oregonian<\/span><\/a>, \u201cLow-contact indoor sports already were permitted, but the new rules for the first time since last spring will allow Oregonians of all ages to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sharedsystems.dhsoha.state.or.us\/DHSForms\/Served\/le2352.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">engage in indoor<\/span><\/a>\u00a0basketball, cheerleading, wrestling and water polo, among other sports, according to the health authority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The state\u2019s guidelines for activities are separated into different tiers based on levels of risk for each county. On Tuesday, Governor Brown updated the county risk levels under the current health framework for the state. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oregon.gov\/newsroom\/Pages\/NewsDetail.aspx?newsid=54538\"><span class=\"s1\">press release<\/span><\/a> explained, \u201cThe framework uses four different risk levels for counties based on COVID-19 spread\u2014Extreme Risk, High Risk, Moderate Risk, and Lower Risk\u2014and assigns health and safety measures for each level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to reporting by The Oregonian, \u201cBrown said earlier this month that no county would be deemed \u2018extreme risk\u2019 and experience the toughest public health measures \u2014 including prohibitions on indoor dining at restaurants and bars \u2014 until hospitalizations reached 300 patients with a 15% increase in the seven-day average in the previous week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The move to resume indoor full-contact sports comes after the governor made headlines this week when members of her administration put forward the idea of imposing a \u201cpermanent\u201d masking rule since the regulations that are currently in place will expire next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oregon-weighs-permanent-mask-mandate-as-states-lift-covid-19-regulations\">The Daily Wire<\/a><\/span> reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23.54802259887\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Michael Wood, administrator of the state\u2019s Occupational Safety and Health Department, has floated a proposal to keep masking requirements in place until \u201cno longer necessary to address the effects of the pandemic in the workplace.\u201d Wood said that the new \u201cpermanent\u201d rule is needed to keep the current regulations from expiring, according to\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/coronavirus-pandemic-oregon-6f7f919d27644d02c330da5a8648af95\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Associated Press<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The proposal has sparked opposition from the state\u2019s Republican lawmakers. State Sen. Kim Thatcher ripped Democratic Gov. Kate Brown\u2019s administration for floating the proposal and throwing additional uncertainty at business owners.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>\u201cWhen will masks be unnecessary? What scientific studies do these mandates rely on, particularly now that the vaccine is days away from being available to everyone?\u201d Thatcher said. \u201cBusinesses have had to play \u2018mask cop\u2019 for the better part of a year now. They deserve some certainty on when they will no longer be threatened with fines.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Wood said he plans to make a decision on the new mandate before the current provision expires on May 4.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The idea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thousands-of-oregonians-openly-hostile-to-democratic-governors-permanent-mask-mandate\"><span class=\"s1\">reportedly<\/span><\/a> received lots of disapproval. The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division, led by Wood, received 5,000 comments on the potential rule before the public comment period expired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe majority of comments were simply hostile to the entire notion of COVID-19 restrictions,\u201d Wood said. \u201cThe vast majority of comments were in the context of, \u2018You never needed to do anything.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/oregon-covid-cases.html\">The New York Times\u2019<\/a><\/span> COVID-19 case tracker displays a slight increase in COVID-19 cases in the state. Oregon Health Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/profile\/oregon.health.authority.covid.19#!\/vizhome\/OregonCOVID-19VaccinationTrends\/OregonStatewideVaccinationTrends\"><span class=\"s1\">data<\/span><\/a> shows that over 1.6 million people in Oregon are in the process of becoming fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have completed their vaccination series. There are an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.populationu.com\/us\/oregon-population#:~:text=Oregon%20population%20in%202021%20is,state%20in%20the%20United%20States.\"><span class=\"s1\">estimated<\/span><\/a> 4.32 million citizens living in Oregon.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Governor of Oregon Kate Brown announced Tuesday that the state will loosen restrictions and allow \u201cindoor full-contact sports\u201d to resume after members of her administration proposed a \u201cpermanent\u201d mask &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276421,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oregon Governor Allows Indoor Full-Contact Sports After Administration Proposed \u2018Permanent\u2019 Mask Rule","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3165.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Oregon Governor Allows Indoor Full-Contact Sports After Administration Proposed \u2018Permanent\u2019 Mask Rule","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}