A14 THE BULLETIN • TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021
Mask burnings in Idaho are latest
protest against virus restrictions
BY THERESE BOTTOMLY
The Oregonian
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho
— More than a year into a pan-
demic that has claimed 523,000
lives in the United States, right-
wing protesters in Idaho, in-
cluding a handful of elected
officials, set protective masks
aflame, claiming face coverings
stifle their personal liberties.
Although local, state and
federal health officials are
clear that masks are crucial in
the fight against COVID-19,
helping to prevent the disease
from spreading, 70 adults and
children — none wearing face
coverings — stepped forward
on a downtown street corner
in Coeur d’Alene and dropped
masks into a symbolic burn
pot containing dry ice. “U.S.A,
U.S.A,” they chanted.
The protesters held
mask-burnings Saturday in lo-
cations across the state, where
masks are strongly recom-
mended but not required by
Idaho Gov. Brad Little. At a
gathering of more than 100
in the state capital, protesters
tossed coverings into a flaming
barrel and cheered at support-
ive remarks by Lt. Gov. Janice
McGeachin, a far-right militia
supporter whose relations with
Little, a fellow Republican, are
strained.
“If a woman can kill an un-
born child and it’s her body
and her choice, I can decide
whether to wear a mask,” a
man shouted at the rally in
Coeur d’Alene, a hub of the
conservative northern Idaho
panhandle.
The protesters appear to in-
habit an alternate reality, one in
which they claim that the coro-
navirus is no more dangerous
than the flu and that public
health directives based on sci-
ence are dictatorial.
On Saturday, they planned
burnings in two dozen Idaho
cities, equating them to the
Boston Tea Party despite the
fact that tea dumped into the
harbor by colonists to protest
British taxes in 1773 did not,
like masks, help protect others
from a deadly disease. Experts
on extremism say that dismiss-
ing the rallies simply as antics
of a fringe movement would
be a mistake, much like over-
looking signs of an imminent
attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“The denial of the reality of
the pandemic and the denial
of the legitimate results of the
election are not too far apart
from each other,” said Lindsay
Schubiner, a program director
at Western States Center, an or-
ganization that tracks extrem-
ist groups. “It’s hard to have a
functioning democracy if we
don’t live in the same shared
reality, and that’s one reason
why spreading conspiracy the-
ories has been so damaging
and such a useful tool for the
far right.”
The Portland organization
had been monitoring activists
planning Saturday’s rallies in
private Facebook groups and
other online forums that fall
below the radar of everyday
social media. Such groups in-
clude People’s Rights, an orga-
nization founded by Ammon
Bundy, who led the 2016 occu-
pation of the Malheur National
Wildlife Refuge, and Idaho
G-416 Patriots, described as an
anti-Muslim hate group by the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
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ple need to be vaccinated before
everyone can stop following
COVID-19 precautions.
CDC will continue to update
this initial guidance, perhaps
loosening travel restrictions if
new infections continue to de-
crease as vaccinations increase,
Walensky said. But with more
than 90% of the population still
unvaccinated and levels of vi-
rus high, even those who have
received the shots “might get
breakthrough infections with
lesser amounts of virus,” she
said, referring to a fully vacci-
nated person getting infected.
For now, officials are con-
tinuing to discourage travel be-
cause “every time that there is a
surge in travel, we have a surge
in cases in this country,” Walen-
sky said. “We know that many
of our variants have emerged
from international places, and
we know that the travel corri-
dor is a place where people are
mixing a lot.”
The guidance outlines sev-
eral ways that fully vaccinated
people can return to their old
routines, although it is more
general than what some people
might have hoped for. It doesn’t
explicitly say, for instance,
whether vaccinated grandpar-
ents can hug and kiss their un-
vaccinated grandchildren, but
appears to endorse such behav-
ior by saying vaccinated peo-
ple can safely gather indoors
with those in one unvaccinated
household without masks or
physical distancing, as long as
no one is at risk of severe dis-
ease.
A growing body of evidence
suggests that fully vaccinated
people are less likely to spread
the virus to others, the CDC
says. While some prevention
measures continue to be nec-
essary, the benefits of reducing
social isolation “may outweigh
the residual risk of fully vacci-
nated people becoming ill with
COVID-19” or transmitting the
virus to others, the guidance
says.
In addition, relaxing certain
measures for vaccinated people
“may help improve COVID-19
vaccine acceptance and uptake,”
CDC says. “Therefore, there are
several activities that fully vac-
cinated people can resume now,
at low risk to themselves, while
being mindful of the potential
risk of transmitting the virus to
others.”
Small gatherings likely rep-
resent minimal risk — with the
safest situations being for the
fully inoculated to get together
with one another in private set-
tings, such as a dinner among
vaccinated friends in your
home, the CDC says.
But risk increases as gath-
erings get larger, take place
outside the home and include
more unvaccinated people be-
cause they may come from
places with high rates of trans-
mission.
For the fully vaccinated, de-
cisions about social interactions
come down to how much risk
they are willing to take.
The level of caution people
need to exercise should be de-
termined by the characteristics
of those who are unvaccinated,
the CDC says. Unvaccinated
people from a single household,
or people living under one roof
who are at low risk for severe
COVID-19 disease, for in-
stance, can visit with vaccinated
people indoors without wearing
masks, such as grandparents
visiting their grandchildren. But
if the unvaccinated neighbors
stop by, the visit should take
place outdoors or in a well-ven-
tilated space, and everyone
should mask because there is
a higher risk of virus spread
among them.
If a fully vaccinated person
visits with an unvaccinated
friend who is 70, and therefore
at risk of severe disease, the visit
should also take place outdoors,
with masks and physical dis-
tancing, the guidance says.
Vaccinated people should
also continue to follow CDC’s
travel recommendations, which
include delaying travel while
cases are extremely high. That
means vaccinated grandparents
are advised against flying to see
their grandchildren. Grandpar-
ents can visit with their unvac-
cinated children and grandchil-
dren “who are healthy and who
are local,” Walensky said.
And vaccinated people must
still follow the same require-
ments before, during and after
domestic or international travel,
including wearing masks. The
CDC requires all international
travelers to show proof that
they had tested negative for the
coronavirus before boarding
flights to the United States.
In public settings, vacci-
nated people should continue
to follow all public health pre-
cautions, including wearing a
well-fitted mask, physical dis-
tancing and avoiding poorly
ventilated spaces. The virus has
been shown to spread in set-
tings such as gyms and bars.
The CDC said fully vac-
cinated people who have
been exposed to someone
with suspected or confirmed
COVID-19 do not have to
quarantine or be tested if they
remain without symptoms. But
if the exposure takes place in
certain crowded settings that
increase the risk of spread, such
as prisons and group homes,
they must still quarantine for 14
days and get tested.
Advocates for older people
embraced guidance that loos-
ens restrictions on social in-
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especially those who live alone,
they said, have spent the past
year in virtual isolation, hun-
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ederal health officials re-
leased guidance Monday
that gives fully vaccinated
Americans more freedom to so-
cialize and pursue routine daily
activities, providing a pandem-
ic-weary nation a first glimpse
of what a new normal may look
like in coming months.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention said
people who are two weeks past
their final shot face little risk if
they visit indoors with unvac-
cinated members of a single
household at low risk of severe
disease, without wearing masks
or distancing. That would free
many vaccinated grandparents
who live near their unvacci-
nated children and grandchil-
dren to gather for the first time
in a year.
The CDC also said fully vac-
cinated people can gather in-
doors with those who are also
fully vaccinated. And they do
not need to quarantine, or be
tested after exposure to the
coronavirus, if they have no
symptoms.
Peter Hotez, co-director of
the Texas Children’s Center for
Vaccine Development, wel-
comed the advice, but said it
has taken too long for the CDC
to tell an exhausted public when
their masks can come off.
“The sooner we move to tell-
ing people if you’re fully vacci-
nated, you don’t have to wear
masks, that will be an incentive
for people to get vaccinated,”
Hotez said.
The five-page guidelines of-
fer a road map of sorts to those
who have made it through the
rocky vaccine rollout to re-
suming aspects of daily life that
have been on hold for more
than a year. They come as the
government and public health
officials are racing to vaccinate
people as fast as possible to out-
pace highly transmissible ver-
sions of the virus spreading in
the United States. Coronavirus
cases have plateaued at a dan-
gerously high level.
After a slow start, the pace
of inoculations is accelerating,
with more than 60 million peo-
ple in the United States having
received one shot and nearly
31 million people now fully
vaccinated, or about 9% of the
population, according to CDC.
President Joe Biden has vowed
to have enough supply for every
adult who wants a shot by late
May, raising hopes of a return
to normal life.
CDC Director Rochelle
Walensky said the recommen-
dations sought to balance po-
tential risk to those who are
unvaccinated, and impacts
on community transmission,
against the benefit of “getting
back to some of the things that
we love in life” for those who
are inoculated. She and others
warned that millions more peo-
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p.m. Friday, April 2,
2021. Each proposal
must be enclosed in
In observance of the
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trying to locate them so
OR 97754, Attn:
I can speak with them
Lieutenant
Brett
and document their
Lind. The bid open-
memories. I can be
ing will take place
reached at this email
at 4:05 p.m. on April
address: sbourrie@veri-
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during
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proximately
10:00
Market
a.m. on Wednesday,
May 5, 2021.
Complete bidding doc-
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denda are available
for download from
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at
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or.us/rfps or from
Hay, Grain, Feed
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inquiries are to be di-
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claims against the
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to present them, with
vouchers attached,
to the undersigned
personal represen-
tative c/o Lawrence
W. Erwin, Attorney at
Law, 221 NW Lafay-
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OR 97703, within
four months after the
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the Circuit Court of
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for Deschutes, under
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determine the claims
of the creditors of the
trust settlor, Robert
Rene Roth, who is
now deceased.
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to Dorothy Roth, c/o
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(4) months after the
date of first publica-
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the claims may be
barred.
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Circuit Court, State
of Oregon, Case
No.
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ceased, by the Cir-
cuit Court, State of
Oregon, Deschutes
County, Case No.
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to the PR at 204 SE
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2021, the first publi-
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