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Efforts to make Oregon’s coronavirus regulations permanent have been met with resistance.
The state’s emergency regulations expire on May 4, but a proposal that would extend Oregon’s mask mandate and social distancing requirements indefinitely has sparked the ire of state residents.
The Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Division received a record-breaking 5,000 comments on the
proposed rules before the public comment period ended, eclipsing the past record of 1,000 comments.
“The majority of comments were simply hostile to the entire notion of COVID-19 restrictions,” Michael Wood, the administrator of Oregon’s Occupational Safety and Health Division, said. “The vast majority of comments were in the context of, ‘You never needed to do anything.’”
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