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HomeMy Public PortalAbout2021.04.08 Public Comments - McCall City Council Mask Mandate Resolution ReviewID 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 Start time 3/29/2021 6:53:13 PM 3/27/2021 3:02:10 PM 4/1/2021 9:45:11 PM 4/2/2021 6:11:51 PM 4/3/2021 8:15:43 AM 4/3/2021 2:38:54 PM 4/3/2021 5:40:14 PM 4/3/2021 5:48:39 PM 4/3/2021 5:48:51 PM 4/3/2021 8:17:20 PM 4/4/2021 7:36:27 AM 4/5/2021 9:42:38 AM 4/5/2021 9:26:07 PM 4/6/2021 8:17:15 AM 4/7/2021 9:55:08 AM 4/7/2021 10:17:05 AM 4/7/2021 10:33:08 AM 4/7/2021 11:06:00 AM 4/7/2021 11:20:49 AM 4/7/2021 11:52:33 AM 4/7/2021 11:54:48 AM 4/7/2021 12:15:39 PM 4/7/2021 1:08:24 PM 4/7/2021 1:16:11 PM 4/7/2021 1:20:18 PM 4/7/2021 12:22:49 PM 4/7/2021 2:32:07 PM 4/7/2021 2:44:40 PM 4/7/2021 3:08:58 PM 4/7/2021 3:06:05 PM 4/7/2021 3:56:54 PM 4/7/2021 4:32:27 PM 4/7/2021 4:44:28 PM 4/7/2021 6:16:35 PM 4/7/2021 7:16:31 PM 4/7/2021 7:38:31 PM 4/8/2021 8:44:04 AM 4/8/2021 8:54:19 AM 4/8/2021 9:58:17 AM 4/8/2021 10:31:09 AM 4/8/2021 11:17:19 AM 4/8/2021 11:15:18 AM 4/8/2021 12:39:37 PM 4/8/2021 12:39:56 PM 4/8/2021 1:30:37 PM 4/8/2021 1:31:15 PM 4/8/2021 1:33:44 PM 4/8/2021 1:32:59 PM 4/8/2021 1:31:03 PM 4/8/2021 2:33:47 PM Completion time 3/29/2021 6:55:46 PM 3/30/2021 10:37:53 AM 4/1/2021 9:48:56 PM 4/2/2021 6:23:42 PM 4/3/2021 10:16:47 AM 4/3/2021 5:40:08 PM 4/3/2021 5:42:52 PM 4/3/2021 5:54:49 PM 4/3/2021 5:57:55 PM 4/3/2021 8:24:32 PM 4/4/2021 7:44:51 AM 4/5/2021 10:04:37 AM 4/5/2021 9:37:26 PM 4/6/2021 8:24:58 AM 4/7/2021 10:00:16 AM 4/7/2021 10:20:02 AM 4/7/2021 10:35:19 AM 4/7/2021 11:10:40 AM 4/7/2021 11:22:10 AM 4/7/2021 11:57:00 AM 4/7/2021 11:59:49 AM 4/7/2021 12:18:20 PM 4/7/2021 1:09:46 PM 4/7/2021 1:21:39 PM 4/7/2021 1:23:40 PM 4/7/2021 2:16:31 PM 4/7/2021 2:35:49 PM 4/7/2021 2:52:15 PM 4/7/2021 3:13:46 PM 4/7/2021 3:17:08 PM 4/7/2021 3:58:05 PM 4/7/2021 4:44:06 PM 4/7/2021 4:53:34 PM 4/7/2021 6:31:50 PM 4/7/2021 7:37:30 PM 4/7/2021 7:39:48 PM 4/8/2021 9:03:04 AM 4/8/2021 9:17:07 AM 4/8/2021 10:07:55 AM 4/8/2021 10:38:50 AM 4/8/2021 11:19:49 AM 4/8/2021 11:28:42 AM 4/8/2021 12:43:58 PM 4/8/2021 12:45:06 PM 4/8/2021 1:31:40 PM 4/8/2021 1:35:35 PM 4/8/2021 1:44:11 PM 4/8/2021 1:46:17 PM 4/8/2021 1:59:56 PM 4/8/2021 2:58:06 PM Email anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous anonymous Name Enter First and Last Name - A bona fide name is required in order for public comment to be communicated to council. 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McCall 608 Woodlands Dr, McCall 83638 8 Sawtooth Ct McCall ID 83638 502 Sunset St, McCall Id 13973 Wrangler Road, McCall, ID 83638 3351 Ridge Drive McCall, ID 83638 1414 Stone Ln, McCall,ID 83638 662 Brady Dr, McCall, ID 83638 13651 Morris Ranch Rd McCall ID 83638 53 Chase Drive McCall Idaho What is your stance on this matter? Against Against For Against Against Against Against Against Against Against Against For Against Against For For For For Against For Against For Against For For For For For Against Against For Against Against Against For Against For For For For For For Against Against For Against For For Against Against Enter Public Comment - All Public Comments are public record McCall shouldn't have a more stringent requirement on masks than the overall state. In doing my research, I came across a press release on the State of Idaho's web site. It states, "The COVID-19 emergency order follows state law and takes responsible, measured steps to protect our loved ones and neighbors. It does not take away or infringe on Idahoan's constitutional rights, it does not shut down Idaho, and it does not give local governments the authority to create and enforce local mask order." Very interesting statement and yet, here we are. I am completely against a mask mandate, especially with a virus that has over a 99% survival rate for most people. My body, my choice and the City of McCall DOES NOT have the right to take away my freedoms. It should be up to each individual if they would like to wear a mask or not. I am for a mask mandate in McCall and Valley country. The CDC recommends that people wear masks in public settings, at events and gatherings, and anywhere they will be around other people. When you wear a mask, you protect others as well as yourself. Masks work best when everyone wears one. Science has shown they help and this is a crucial time to continue to slow the spread. Thank you for your time. I am not in agreement with the continued wearing of masks. First, I would like to ask, Why do we breath in and out? We breath in FRESH air and out Polluted air. With the mask we do not take in any fresh air. Many are coming down with health challenges just wearing a mask. I also have a health challenge with an oxygen issue. I need fresh air to breath. Others I know have ended up with eye infections, lung issues and headaches. Second, there is no proof that the masks work. Any logical person can see that the numbers are inflated. What I can agree with is a strong immune system. I have not been sick in 25 years and have not contracted Covid and will not get the vaccine. And, yes. I am 67 and I will continue to say no. I have not been vaccinated my entire adult life and I have no intension of starting now. I cannot breath with a mask on. Third, I feel our FREEDOM is being compromised. At work I wear a shield but off work, I do not wear either with just a couple exceptions which is for small business. I want to see the small business stay open. I will say, I do not shop or spend money due to this mandate. I would rather support local but with this restriction, I have taken to online shopping. Id rather shop local. and finally, Stop the FEAR! Stop the Masks! Lets get back to living. Statically proven Covid19 is 99.6+ survivable with proven remedies to help in the healing process. Wearing a mask may make one feel better, but masks are not a proven deterrent to sickness. As done during the flu season, if one is elderly or has a pre existing condition, isolating one self from anyone with symptoms of any contagion is the safest option. It is unconstitutional to take away the freedom of americans to decide what we should or should not wear on our faces. We live in America, a free country, and as Americans we have the right to decide what is best for ones self which includes our health. And we should not be forced by any mandate set by any state or federal governing powers to succum to their orders that infringe upon of our freedoms. I'm not without compassion. Please, feel free to wear a mask or two if that makes you feel safer, but don't order me with mandates taking away my freedom to choose what is best for me which is not wearing a mask because that is detrimental to my health. Thank you, Ronda I am vehemently opposed to the government being able to create mask mandates. Businesses should be able to decide whether or not they want to enforce mask wearing. Consequently, individuals can decide which businesses they would like to frequent. Government has no business mandating health products. Mask mandates are an overreach of government. The decision to wear a mask should be left up to individuals and business owners. It’s troubling to me that in the states that didn’t have a mask mandate that the stats are very comparable. If masks work there should be a definite difference. We are told to listen to science and science warns us against doing the very thing that we have mandated. I have watched people touch their face/mouth area countless times while wearing a mask and then serve me food or perform some type of service for me. How could that ever be healthy? Masks do not work, there have even been doctors that say they do nothing! In places that did not have mask mandates, cases were lower than the places that mandated them. The Central District Health in Boise had previously voted and removed the mandate for masks. We should remove the mask mandate. It is completely unnecessary to mandate the wearing of masks, especially since they do nothing! It infringes on individuals rights. It should be up to each individual person whether or not they want to wear a mask. REMOVE THE MASK MANDATE!!!!!! I believe this is illegal and should not have been made in the beginning and should not even be considered moving foreword. Done with masks. Haven't worn one in 2 months. Extension of the mandate will only make us more determined to not comply. I support the extension of the mask mandate in our resort community town. It is important to continue to support and protect each other, especially the worker bees that make it possible for visitors to enjoy McCall. The majority of whom just became elidable for the Covid vaccination on March 30. It takes 6 weeks to become fully vaccinate. So, to extend the mandate for another 6 weeks seems worthwhile, affording our community more protections and some breathing room. I am against the mask mandate and feel that people should only wear a mask if they choose to. We as a community know this mandate is not legal and we are well beyond any threat of a covid "pandemic" here in ALL of Valley County. In one year 4 "supposed covid realted deaths" have been recorded. This is nothing. The flu and pneumonia kill double that. We all know this is a power grab by the liberal majority here and it needs to stop. The majority of this town is probably vaccinated (which I am sure your God doctors know) and if it works then you should take the masks off. Give our kids their lives back! You are killing our youth with these rules.. If you continue this farce you will lose your visitors (which is also your goal) and this town will die. Our country is opening up! Look at Texas. They have the lowest rate of infection and they are at MLB games enjoying life. Wake up McCall! Freedom will prevail. Please continue this mask mandate! We are far from over this virus! Please follow the recommendations of the CDC and our healthcare providers. Please follow the City if Boise as they continue their mask mandate. Highly contagious variants are in our state. Wear a mask even if you have been vaccinated. Please maintain the mask mandate. It provides critical support for local businesses and schools, and until a higher percentage of our residents are vaccinated, it helps slow the spread of COVID19. Please follow the science. Maintain the mask mandate. Reduce the creation and spread of more deadly variants. With the emergence of the Covid variants and vaccine roll out, we are still a few months for relaxing the restrictions that are in place. Please do not give up prematurely our hard fought efforts to keep our community safe. Throughout this pandemic we have still seen record numbers of people coming to our community and the mask mandate has definitely helped keep out numbers manageable There’s a rise in covid again! Please keep the mask mandate! Please keep the mask mandate indefinitely. I would like to see all decisions re: Covid restrictions made based on science. The UK variant is becoming prevalent, and is more contagious. Now is not the time to stop mask wearing Leslie Ray Prefer a no mask mandate, allowing people to self-manage their own health concerns. Thank you. Please continue the mask mandate. We are not out of the woods yet as seen by spikes in COVID cases in many parts of the country. Do no be complacent -- stay the course until a much higher percentage of vaccinations are administered. Thanks. Get rid of the mask mandate! For safety of residents. Protect residents from variants that may not be affected by vaccines. Please continue McCall MASK MANDATE until July 1.... keep health and safety standards high. Thank you for mask guideline or mandate up intil now. If visitors choose to come to McCall, no issue—summer crowds at businesses and public spaces are busy enough or overflowing. Thank you! I am strongly for maintaining the mandate. With the risk of new variants and the rate of current infections, it really doesn't make sense to get rid of the mandate now. We all want to get back to "normal", and masks are a key part of us doing that. As a business owner, the mandate is hugely helpful in supporting our efforts keeping our staff and customers safe. The mandate makes life easier for our hard-working staff and helps lessen potential conflict. Thanks again for your leadership in establishing (and hopefully maintaining) the mandate. The pandemic isn't over yet. I'm for the mask mandate. The people of this community and their lives matter. Hi City Council members, I commend you for your past courage and concern for the health of your constituents and visitors to McCall. Please do not bow to pressure to rescind the mask mandate. Pressure to rescind the mandate is pure political ideology with absolutely no basis in science or public health medicine. Science says that most new infections in the US today are the more dangerous British variant of the COVID virus. The public deserves all the protection you can provide. Please continue the mask mandate. Sincerely, Charles Ray It’s time for the government to let people be smart and let individual people exercise individual responsibility. The Vaccine is now available to anyone who would like to receive it above the age of 16, For this reason, I support removing the mask mandate. Thank you. Please keep us safe, and keep the mandate. I have always lived in Idaho and this is a great place to live. When elected officials go against the constitution there is an issue. Leave it up to the people that live here or visit here to protect themselves. Government is not intended to mandate the people , it's the people that make up the government. We the people will take a stand and not follow these mandates no longer. I am a dental profesional here in McCall. We see on average 32 patients per day. 80% of the people we see feel that the local government is over stepping their boundaries and making a mask mandate when it should be focused on more important issues like pot holes and dirt roads. Masks should be left up to the individual to choose whether or not they want to wear them. It's time McCall! I love love love your city but don't force masks on people in public places or force private property owners to require masks. Leave it up to the property owner to require masks or not. Their business, their right to choose, period. If the customer doesn't like it (mask or no mask), then tough shit, shop somewhere else. Thank you Thank you for your diligence on this matter. I believe the mask requirement for McCall should be continued. In the short term we are seeing good results for our community but I think it is prudent to stay the course and see how this pandemic unfolds in our community. I urge council members to heavily weight their decision on the recommendations of Dr. Irvine and our health care professionals at this juncture. I do not think we need to wear masks. The mandate should be lifted not extended. Please continue to mandate masks in McCall and publicize this mandate. If you want to support business and support my freedom, you will mandate masks. There are too many people who will not have the courtesy or common sense to mask up if there is no such mandate. The case stats have probably improved recently because of people masking, social distancing and not gathering indoors unmasked. Just compare our stats to eastern Idaho COVID stats (www.covidactnow.org) to be convinced the mask mandate here is very productive to protect our health. This allows me to exercise my freedom to shop and do business in town more safely. Without a mandate, the pressure is put on individual businesses to do what they can do to keep their own employees, staff and customers safe. Thank you for your work. Sheree Sonfield, McCall, Idaho Greetings Mr. Mayor and McCall City Councilors: As residents of McCall for over 40 years, we want to thank you for your past commitment to the safety of McCall residents and visitors through enactment of a mask mandate. While it appears that we in the U.S. are making positive strides in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, this is not yet the time to let our guard down. We do not yet have the vast majority of our population vaccinated, and new variants continue to appear. In the continued best interest of our community’s health, we urge you to extend the mask mandate at least into mid-summer, 2021, and to then re-assess our situation. We also encourage that the mask mandate include provisions with the necessary “teeth” to effectively enforce the mandate. Thank you for your consideration! Sincerely, James K. & Marta N. Thackeray Telephone: (208) 315-1276 Extending the mask mandate will continue to help make McCall a safe haven compared to many other locations. I submit that the mandate should be extended until a significant majority of local residents have been vaccinated and the vaccine made available to anyone over the age of 16. My observations confirm that the overwhelming majority of McCall residents and visitors understand and support the benefits to individuals and society from masks. When should the mask mandate end? It is too soon to know, but as the summer tourist season arrives McCall will again face increased risks without a mask mandate. For those who think the mask mandate hurts business or infringes on individual freedom, I'd suggest they talk to Brundage management about the experience at that location. We are making real progress in the fight againsts COVID-19. The tools we have to reduce the spread, masks, limiting crowds and gatherings, washing hands and now vaccines are working. Our numbers are down due to the mitigation practices our community are following. This includes the mask mandate. Let's not give up too soon, we are so close. Keeping the mask mandate in place throughout the spring, while we work to get more people in the community vaccinated will lead us to a great summer and an even better fall when we hope to get kids back to school full time. Please extend the mask mandate and keep our community members safe by promoting the guidelines we know work. Thank you for your consideration, Laura Crawford McCall I am strongly in favor of continuing the mask mandate until the majority of McCall residents are vaccinated and the coronavirus is no longer a public health threat. Dear Council Members, I'm writing in support of the proposal to extend the City of McCall's mask mandate for another 45 days, until May 26, 2021. With vaccination numbers up and case numbers down in Valley County, the trend is looking more positive. On the other hand, the pandemic isn't behind us. Just yesterday, news reports said the CDC has determined that the more virulent B.1.1.7 variant is now the dominant strain of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. With warmer weather coming, visitor traffic to McCall will undoubtedly increase. Keeping the mask mandate in place is a sensible and low-cost way to help both residents and visitors stay safe and healthy. Thank you, Dawn Matus It's time to stop the miniature Nanny State that the McCall City Council has built around COVID-19 and the mask mandate.   We've been at this (i.e. the mask mandate) since last July, and have watched the COVID numbers surge and recede seemingly oblivious to whether or not a particular area has a mask mandate.  Folks have seen the data, and whether they believe masks work or not has already been decided.  Even without a mask mandate a lot of people will continue to wear them, and that is their right, just like it should be the right for others to decide not to.   Most other places have caught on.  Governor Little rescinded the statewide mandate, Central District Health rescinded theirs.  Many other areas, from municipalities, to counties to states have rescinded their mandates despite various projections of doom and gloom pretty much none of which came to fruition.   And wait, aren't we supposed to be in that post Spring Break surge of cases?  There were a lot of folks in town just a couple weeks ago, and let's face it social distancing and mask wearing weren't exactly pristine for a large portion of that crowd, yet today's Star News hails that for the first time in more than a year: "No new positive cases of COVID in Valley County hospitals this last week".  McCall's COVID numbers, like most of the rest of the state are, and have been, flat for quite some time.  It's time for the mask mandate to be lifted.     If not now, then when? Please let us live our own lives and make our own health decisions. Please extend the mask mandate. Please continue to set a positive example for our state and community by extending the mask mandate in McCall. As an emergency room health care provider, I am very concerned about how quickly people are going back to 'normal'. I too am tired of the Covid life, but feel like if we could just hang on a little longer, continue precautions and get vaccinated we can really move on. If we are premature we are risking going back to where we were this winter. By having masks be part of our lives still, we are showing unselfishness and compassion towards each other, as well as providing an environment where people can still visit but the risk of bringing in other variants from outside of McCall is lowered. I encourage City Council to maintain the mask mandate for now. Thank you for your consideration. Please continue the mask mandate as it is making a huge difference regarding the spread of COVID-19. We continue to see many out of state visitors in our community and it is very important we protect ourselves and our businesses against another surge in Covid-19 cases. We are so close to getting back to ‘normal’, please extend the mask mandate to give more time for as many of our community members as possible to be vaccinated. Thank you for your work to keep our community safe. The mask mandate should be brought back. We would all like for things to return to 'normal' and the best way to achieve that is through continued vigilance. As we all know, the summer brings tourists and to protect our town (and those who visit) we should take a united stance in requiring masks while indoors in public places. Stop this Mandate already! First and foremost, residents of Idaho should be looking to God and fearing Him instead of man and the media that is promoted by man. Just as with all other medical practices, the science is never settled, and there is never a "one size fits all" resolution. That being said, the mask mandate should have been done away with long ago. Mask requirements are not necessary to stop the spread of coronavirus. The curve has been successfully flattened in areas in which masks were not mandated. Mask requirements give a false sense of security. Mask requirements restrict freedom. They are an overreach of government power and are unconstitutional. Those of you who love Idaho because Idaho protects your freedom should be furious with this overreach. Mask requirements present other health risks. There are too many to name. Mask requirements have harmful social consequences. For those who feel it is the route they want to follow, let them wear masks. There should always be a choice, as each individual has an individual story that is personal to them. Masks have only caused more division, where division is not needed. We should be united. I pray that one day we will achieve that. Thank you, God Bless.