Tag: health district

  • Health District Wants Police to Enforce Their Orders

    December 4 at 5:15 pm the Board of Central District Health will vote to change the current health advisory in place to a health ORDER with enforcement. Instead of “strong recommendations” to wear a face covering, physical distance from others, limit occupancy in businesses, and avoid social gatherings, it would now be an ORDER in all four counties within this health district this includes Ada, Elmore, Valley, and Boise Counties by restricting movement, travel, small businesses and commerce, religious services and in-home gatherings.

    Violation of or failure to comply with this Order could constitute a
    misdemeanor punishable by fine, imprisonment, or both. Idaho Code § 39-419.

    Idaho Code 39-414 is vague and very broad in granting powers and duties to this Board. From that section of Code:

    1. To administer and enforce all state and district health laws, regulations, and standards.
    2. To do all things required for the preservation and protection of the public health and preventive health, and such other things delegated by the director of the state department of health and welfare or the director of the department of environmental quality and this shall be the authority for the director(s) to so delegate.

    Please note the use of the word ENFORCE. The Health District wants to impose restrictions that are enforced by our law enforcement and criminal legal systems, which typically operate by criminalization and punishment.

    Please also note the use of the phrase “DO ALL THINGS required for the preservation and protection of the public health….”

    The people within this health district must stand for freedom and demand our rights be respected. We must reject this advice being changed to an order with enforcement. We must stand together and strongly reject our law enforcement officers being turned on the people and ordered to enforce tyranny on us. We must work to change the broad powers vested in this Board, for they are being used to destroy businesses, livelihoods, and our community.

    The CDH Board of Health will consider moving the current Public Health Advisory to a Public Health Order for all 4 counties (Ada, Boise, Elmore, & Valley) at a special meeting on Friday, Dec. 4 at 5:15 pm.

    A draft of the potential Public Health Order

    EMAIL THE BOARD & Submit Public Comment. They will only accept public comment until Thursday at 5:15 pm

    Ted.Epperly@FMRIdaho.org,
    dlachiondo@adacounty.id.gov,
    lach4ada@gmail.com,
    rduke@cdh.idaho.gov,
    rstirm@co.boise.id.us,
    MBlanksma@house.idaho.gov,
    jmatblank@hotmail.com,
    ba-nettleton@hotmail.com,
    ehasbrouck@co.valley.id.us,
    jane@fhcboise.com,
    boh@cdh.idaho.gov

    Submit Written Comments: If your comments are in response to an agenda item for a specific meeting date, please note that comments must be received 24-hours in advance of the applicable meeting to allow for routing and board member review. All messages will be shared with the Board and included in public record.

    • Email: boh@cdh.idaho.gov
    • Mail to: CDH Board of Health, Attn: Russ Duke, 707 N. Armstrong Place, Boise, ID 83704

     View Meetings: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4LJ1BM5Jv3zczecnYkXarw/

     In-Person: CDH Office, 707 N. Armstrong Place, Boise 83704 | Syringa & White Pine meeting rooms. See important In-Person Meeting Information & Protocol Guidance in the 2020 | Public Meeting Notice section below.

  • Panhandle Health District’s Emergency Mask Meeting

    The local health department held a meeting today in North Idaho, which was suppose to be open to the “public.” The main item on the agenda: mandatory masks. The public had less than 24 hours notice. More than 200 people showed up to stand for your freedom- all ages- moms with kids in tow, elderly folks, people in ministry, and retired law enforcement and more than 500 logged in to their zoom call. The sheriff was on hand to keep the public from attending the meeting. Asking the public who was there to attend and offer public comment to ‘just let them (the health district) have their meeting’ and to ‘picket outside’.

    The meeting was interrupted early on, not only by attending members of the public who were not allowed access to the meeting that was discussing the possibility of a mask mandate but also by a hacker who managed to break into a Zoom’s screen-sharing function and write “No Masks” on the data slides. The move forced speakers to abandon the slides and speak of their scripted presentations.

    A motion by the Panhandle Health District board of health to mandate masks failed to come to a vote, as no other member would second the motion to require residents and visitors to wear the protective coverings.

     A mom attending the meeting reported:

    We were not allowed into the meeting room. Instead we filled the hot lobby. ( almost like the AC was purposefully tuned off to deter the public from coming. ) They were hoping for a secret meeting, and they did not get that. They failed to get a second motion for mandated masks. 

    You can be supportive of masks, you can wear a mask all day long for all I care….and still you can be completely against the government MANDATING a face covering for men, women and children.

    Where I live, we still enjoy our freedom to gather for  church services on Sunday. People in states with mandated masks have been out of church since March! So please do not tell me there is no correlation. The governor of California has admitted that (even WITH mandated masks that he believes work so well) churches will be closed indefinitely.  (until a vaccine is made and mandated)

    Mandatory masks WILL directly affect your freedom….long term. It will effect your freedom to gather and worship,  your children’s freedom to go to school and your ability to live your life without a covering over your face. This is more then a “slippery slope”……it’s a complete cliff jump into a  mandated Covid Vaccine.

    Don’t fall for it. They are playing off of your fear right now. 

    I am more than happy to give you  6 feet or more distance while out shopping, in order to respect your space and make you feel safer, but don’t you dare push your fear on my children’s future.

    Northern Idaho Sheriff tells all 200 people waiting to ATTEND a public health meeting that there is only room for 16 in one room live and 18 individuals in the other room.
    In this video you hear the sheriff call the public who showed up to voice their concerns at a public health meeting – “protesters” telling them to have their ‘picket outside’ asking the public to just ‘let them (the health district) have their meeting.’ These are un-elected officials who are instituting mandates that require medical interventions on healthy people across the state. Where there is forced medicine there is NO LIBERTY.

    The next meeting is to be held next Thursday, July 23, 2020.

    Local friends, please come. If I can show up as a mother of 5 young kids and a husband with a crazy work schedule, you can too! This is our children’s future we are talking about. Please show up. 

    KEEP CHECKING THE SITE REGARDING MEETING INFORMATION:

    Our health districts are not required to give much-advanced notice. Panhandle Health District says minutes from the meeting will be posted here in the near future, but it was about the use of masks in public settings, which the discussion will be continued at the next Board of Health meeting on the 23rd. https://panhandlehealthdistrict.org/about-us/

    MASK INFORMATION RESOURCE:

    In the Journal of the American Medical Association:

    “Face masks should not be worn by healthy individuals to protect themselves from acquiring respiratory infection because there is no evidence to suggest that face masks worn by healthy individuals are effective in preventing people from becoming ill.

    Face masks should be used only by individuals who have symptoms of respiratory infection such as coughing, sneezing, or, in some cases, fever.

    Face masks should also be worn by healthcare workers, by individuals who are taking care of or are in close contact with people who have respiratory infections, or otherwise as directed by a doctor.

    (Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); April 21, 2020 Volume 323, Number 15 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694)

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762694