e STEADYEdition RAIN 57 • 43 | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2020 | theworldlink.com Follow us online: facebook.com/theworldnewspaper twitter.com/TheWorldLink instagram.com/theworldlink Residents ask commissioners to fight restrictions DAVID RUPKALVIS Daniel Wilson, pastor of mandates needs to stop and stop going to live in shutdown? To the vaccine,” he said. “Yes, these The World RWCI Ministries in Bandon, now. when, to when? This is too big, masks are a burden. Whoever is said the restrictions are destroy- “I passionately oppose the shut too important to be limited to saying to put on the mask and COQUILLE — Coos Coun- ing the community. downs, the mask mandates,” she three minutes.” tell you live like that is cowards. ty commissioners received an “I’ve come in support of said. “None of this is Constitu- Gloria Robinson told commis- They will get on their knees and earful during an emotional call many that are here, just simply tional and I request a round table, sioners without help small busi- grovel just for a little safety. to the public Tuesday as close to because being a pastor in the work shop, whatever where we nesses will disappear throughout John, you get a paycheck every a dozen community members, local community, a building can sit down, we can talk and the county. month. Melissa you get one, most from Bandon, begged contractor in the local commu- come up with a better solution “Our communities are suffer- Bob you get one. Some of us we commissioners to do something nity for 30 years, we’ve seen for Coos County.” ing, especially ones that depend went through a couple of months to ease COVID-19 restrictions a lot happen in the communi- After Vasquez finished on restaurants and public stores,” with no money, nothing. Nobody in the county. ty because of this,” he said. speaking, many in the audience Robinson said. “This is killing came to our rescue, all you did During the meeting, a col- “COVID-19 has definitely been began to clap. At that time, Chair them. Many of them can’t sur- is give us orders. Then when we lective of business owners said terrible for all of us this year. Melissa Cribbins asked for the vive it. They’re not big corpora- come to a meeting and somebody enough is enough when it comes What’s more terrible than that clapping to stop. That led to a tions that have ample resources happens to clap, Melissa gets to COVID restrictions. is corruption in government, in further outburst, with one person to continue on without income irate with us. It’s ridiculous. “I think one of the most science. There’s been conflict- calling out “You need to do coming in. We pay your income, Be a leader, stop being a cow- frustrating things is watching ing information from all sides. something to help us.” so you’re guaranteed a paycheck. ard and putting on your mask and everything happen and just Some of the facts I’m concerned Tanya DePaolo, also of Ban- They’re not. This has gone on following orders. We’re dying on feeling silenced,” Theresa about is causing people to don, said it is time for the people way too long. This mask things the vine.” Avery said. “Many people are remain isolated, not to mention to stand up. in the biggest bull I’ve seen in Maria Merriam, who owns very frustrated. Our leaders are what it’s had on business. Less “I also vehemently oppose my entire life. Are you going to a dance studio in Bandon, said telling us to trust them, trust the than 6 percent of COVID cases these shut downs, these mask continue to be ruled by people the government lockdowns science, but we’ve been getting have appeared in children, yet mandates,” she said. “God is who telling you want to do? I’m not. have been devastating for local a lot of inconsistent information children are remaining isolated. I am loyal to first and foremost. This county needs opened up, businesses. and a lot of unscientific infor- America is facing a teen suicide He gave me an immune system, and it needs opened up now.” “As a business, we have lost 70 percent of our income this mation. There was the wear a pandemic. We heard recently he gave me holes in my face so Rob Taylor added to the call, year,” she said. “So that’s rough. mask, don’t wear a mask. When that a 5th grader has commit- I can breathe. These masks are saying freedom is not debatable. When our restaurants are shut they were telling us don’t wear a ted suicide. This COVID and dangerous. I have heart issues, “This is an issue of freedom. down, the business owners tell mask, they were telling us it was this isolation that is happening and this causes me to have a lack This is an issue of people being dangerous to wear a mask. We me they might as well have shut has begun to impact in terrible of oxygen.” told to do things by bureaucrats down the whole town because don’t know who to trust.” ways.” DePaolo said the lockdowns that are taking statistics that are Avery said the government it’s empty. They’re panicked. I Denise Vasquez, a business are not only wrong but likely not accurate. We know they are implore you to do everything needs to start trusting the peo- owner in Bandon, said another illegal. not accurate,” he said. “We know within your power. This is not a ple, not the other way around. shutdown could destroy small “What’s going on is incredibly that the numbers are incorrect, partisan issue. It’s not about poli- “What we’d like is for you to businesses. wrong, it’s incredibly uncon- and we know that we can open tics anymore, it’s about survival.” trust us to make wise decisions,” “I have a local business that stitutional,” she said. “We have up this county. We can’t run Rod Taylor made his argument Avery said. “A lot of the restau- is looking at another shutdown a right to live. We are living, away from this illness and we against government mandates rants, we’ve seen the efforts as of Friday. It’s not fair to breathing, walking human be- have to ask ourselves what are loud and clear. they’ve made putting in dividers the restaurants,” she said. “As ings. We don’t serve the govern- we going to do. Are we going to “Our Constitution and Bill of to create a safe environment, far as I know, the restaurants ment. The government is for the destroy our economy and come Rights afford us the right to the just to get knocked back down is aren’t spreading. We’re very people. Somehow, someway that out of our economy completely pursuit of life, liberty and happi- very discouraging. Some of the diligent to our food handling, is being lost and the government broke, and we’ll still die anyway ness,” he said. “It affords us the decrees that have been made, our sanitizing. We need to come is creating fear in the people. We because it’s not going any- right to freedom of commerce, like when they first shut down together as Coos County and say need to take back our rights to where.” freedom of association, freedom the parks, we were scratching it’s not working, the shut downs, live and move about freely and Taylor said commissioners of religion. These rights have our heads. You are usually never the openings, the shut downs. be happy and thrive. Government need to do something to help the been impeded, they have been closer than 60 feet from any- It’s not working, and we need to is trying to squash that and that’s people. trespassed by the unconstitution- body much less six feet, but they come up with another solution.” not OK. We have one life. Are “Even with the vaccine com- al mandates of the governor. closed every one down.” Vasquez said the government we going to live in fear, are we ing, many are not going to take Please see Restrictions, Page 3 Over-the- Coquille Rainbow counter home test for COVID-19 gets green light WASHINGTON (AP) — The first home test for COVID-19 that doesn’t require a prescription will soon be on U.S. store shelves. U.S. regulators Tuesday authorized the rapid coronavirus test, which can be done entirely at home. The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration represents another important — though incremental — step in efforts to expand testing options. Regulators granted emergency use for a similar home test last month, but that one needs a doc- tor’s prescription. The agency’s action Tues- day allows sales in places like drugstores “where a patient can buy it, swab their nose, run the test and find out their results in John Gunther, The World as little as 20 minutes,” said FDA A rainbow arcs over a hillside on the west end of Coquille on a recent fall day. South Coast residents can expect periods of rain throughout the next week. Commissioner Stephen Hahn, in a statement. Initial supplies of the over-the- counter test will be limited. Aus- Biden picks Buttigieg, Granholm for cabinet posts tralian manufacturer Ellume said it expects to produce 3 million WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- openly gay person confirmed by attempts to overturn the election picked former Agriculture Secre- tests next month before ramping ident-elect Joe Biden nominated the Senate to a Cabinet post.