If the contagiousness of people without symptoms does not drive the spread of SARS-COV-2, then restrictions like lockdowns and mask mandates on the general public don't make sense.
The crushing of high school football for many high schoolers in Oregon is a demonstration of how Kate and Pat try to appear magnanimous in allowing the peasants to have things like sports, but then pile on cowardly and over-the-top regulations so that actually playing sports is impossible.
Queen Kate finally decides to grant her serfs the privilege of playing high school football, and does it with her typical condescension and blaming of everyone else but her.
The Babylon Bee, a well-known satire site, details the demands from the Chicago teacher's union for returning to the classroom, However, as has been obvious to anyone reading the news, these are the type of demands made by all teachers' unions.
As with all politicians, Kate Brown responds to constituents with a form letter. And as would be expected, a letter from Kate Brown is filled with easily debunked lies.
Kate Brown and Pat Allen whitewash the daily reporting of COVID stats to stop disclosure of basic biological data for each fatality that is helpful, and moves to only publishing aggregated data by age range, county, and gender.
At a press conference this week, Washington Governor Jay Inslee does a great job explaining why teachers and their unions should quit whining about everything not being "safe" for them to return to the classroom.
The Ashland Street Cinema, a long time movie theater in Ashland, OR, closes down because, like many. many businesses in Oregon, Kate Brown won't let it open based unsubstantiated fears and data models.
Kate Brown continues to prevent kids from playing sports in Oregon, in spite of the fact that sports have been played safely for months in a majority of other states. However, somehow it is pefectly safe for D-I athletes to play, and for one reason - money.
A news story about Westview High School football players who went to Utah just so they could play football demonstrates not only how unnecessary it was to cancel scholastic sports this year, but the cowardice demonstrated by Kate, Pat Alle, and Pete Ward from the OSAA.
A new study recently published by Standord University demonstrates what was already obvious - lockdowns have no effect on slowing the spread of COVID, while less severe measures, actually do have an effect.
According to a quote from Kate Brown, people wanting to open their restaurants so they can feed their families, pay their bills, and allow employees to do the same is political.
Two other governors, Doug Ducey of Arizona, and Kim Reynolds of Iowa, have recently demonstrated two characteristics sorely lacking from Kate Brown's COVID response - balance, and compassion for kids and their education.
An editorial from the Oregonian stresses the urgency of getting kids back in school without waiting for all of the excuses used by the teachers unions.
The Kentucky Legislature is set to approve a bill that will limit the governor's executive orders under a state of emergency to 30 days unless extended by the Legislature.
Comrade Kate Brown has destroyed yet another Oregon business using threats and her power, this time an ice rink in Sherwood that has been serving the public for 20 years, and was one of the few ice rinks in the area.
A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that there will be close to 1 million excess deaths in the U.S. because of the economic strain of rising unemployment due to our disastrous and cowardly pandemic response.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on November 12th shows that kids are better off in school than doing "distance learning", and calculates the years of life lost by this missed instruction.
On Facebook, Mike Rowe writes about the workers that our "leaders" such as Kate Brown have labeled as "non-essential", along with the complete lack of logic used in creating rules that allow some favored businesses of the political elite to stay open, while other small businesses are forced to close.
Even though Oregon has one of the lowest number of virus cases in the United States, we are under the seventh strictest level of worthless and dangerous lockdowns in the country. That says everything you need to know about Kate Brown and her goal of control vs. the well-being of Oregonians.
PCR test results are the weapon of choice for Kate Brown in justifying her never-ending extensions of her "emergency powers." However, they are terrible as a diagnostic tool, and what's worse, the results can be manipulated via cycle thresholds to make it seem someone is contagious when they're not. Howwever, Pat Allen and Kate Brown refuse to disclose how many cycles Oregon uses in generating its test results.
Kate Brown issues a statement on the "planned defiance of COVID-19 Executive Orders", stating she will deploy OSHA and OLCC to bully and threaten businesses who dare to open without her express permission.
Sandy Mayor Stan Pulliam writes an op-ed in the Daily Dead Fishwrapper (aks The Oregonian) about the businesses who will be opening up on January 1st, 2021, because they will not survive if they don't open soon.
A new lawsuit filed by Lindsey Graham, the owner of Glamour Salon, details how Comrade Kate Brown came after her and her family with Child Protective Services for daring to open so she could earn a living in spite of Kate's COVID lockdown.
An open letter to Kate Brown from a bi-partisan group of Oreogn legislators refutes Pat Allen's flimsty evidence and excuses for shutting down gyms in Oregon and requests answers to a number of questions.
The owner of the Thomason Hospitality Group in Grants Pass pleads with Kate Brown in an open letter to loosen restrictions on restaurants by January 1st, or his 45 restaurants will go out of business, taking many jobs with them.
In a speech made at a restaurant in Okeechobee, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis defends his decision to keep restaurants open in spite of the constant barrage of hatred from the media and the left (but I repeat myself) for not implementing worthless, Communistic lockdowns.
The owners of Oregon and Washington hospitality stalwart McMenamins tell Comrades Kate and Jay that they will go out of business very soon if they doesn't ease her draconian restrictions on restaurants.
The categorization of two deaths via shotgun from Grand Junction, Colorado, that are categorized as "COVID19 deaths" demonstrates how bloated and worthless the statistics are.
An NBC News article points out the devastating impact that our paranoid overreaction to COVID19 is having on our children, especially in regards to their education.
A Facebook post of a response to a school survey by a student is a clear demonstration of the destruction of the mental health and education caused unnecessarily by Kate Brown.
Like Oregon, Rhode Island is temporarily shutting down gyms, casinos, movie theaters, and bowling alleys. Unlike Oregon, however schools are staying open.
According to data analyzed by the Chicago Sun-Times, there is minimal spread of the virus in school buildings even as transmission rises in the surrounding community.
Unlike Oregon, Chicago is yet another example of a school distrcit that recognizes the failures of "distance learning", and is making it a priority to get their students back in the classroom.
An article on practical atheism offers a perfect explanation of why Kate Brown feels that she needs to control us as much as humanly possible, whether it's the right thing to do or not.