Public comment on COVID masks and roads
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Today's public comment will be handled differently. First, we will take public comment from those that are pre-registered for a WebEx link and are currently currently in queue. After we'll read into the public record comments, documents, PowerPoints, or videos that have been identified by members of the public. public to be read out loud, play at the meeting are received and filed. Finally, we'll take public comment from those currently signed up at the kiosk station. Comments are not to exceed three minutes per person. The new format does not waive the request that when you address the board, comments are not directed personally against the commissioners or team members, but rather directed the issue. This provides mutual respect. Between the board members and the public. For Webex
participants, after stating your name and address for the clerk, the timer will be activated. We'll start a countdown. After two minutes, one beep will sound, letting you know that only one minute remains. After the time is up, two beeps will sound, indicating the three minutes are up, and you should close your comments. Um WebEx participants will be disconnected when the time is up and kiosk participants will be asked to move away from the kiosk. Madam Clerk, do we have anyone registered or pre registered, I should say?
Uh yes, Chairman. We have three individuals that um pre-registered and um the first two are on the line. The third has asked for a video to play in lieu of her speaking.
Okay. Well, Mr. Steinsteiner, a a video to be played in Lou. Do we have we have we seen that video?
Uh my understanding is that I have not personally, but I'm un understand that uh administration has reviewed the video. Uh your rules provide that if that if they wish to submit a video, uh that counts against their time. So that apparently this speaker has elected to have the video Shown versus her.
Well the video testimony has something to do with what is on our agenda or a future
agenda.
I
think it would be something that's on a I think it's with respect to COVID nineteen. Which Could be on a future agenda.
I see. Okay. Um we'll go ahead and Madam Clerk and move forward with the people that are signed up.
All right. The first person signed up is Christopher Mayashiro.
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Good morning. Hi, name an address for the record, please.
Chris Miyashiro [address removed].
Thank you, sir.
Well hey, good morning folks. Um thank you for your time. I appreciate uh everyone's attention. Um regarding uh my concern, I have um concern about COVID. Um, I have a sister that's in an assisted living facility, three daughters currently in school in Pasco County. Um Based on the Florida's uh website, our cases are increasing, our positivity rate is increasing. Um And I currently don't feel Like
I'm I fully understand what our our process is gonna be moving forward. We're still at a hundred percent capacity for restaurants and bars. Um I like to see if the commission has a plan or strategy to compensate for COVID increase over time for both the public. And the school. in terms of additional resources for either Limiting capacity to twenty five percent. uh or perhaps shutting down facilities depending on
The rate of covid. Um as it increases.
Well thank you for your comment, sir.
Madam Clerk, that'll be up next.
The next person signed up is Chris Wertz.
Yes. Good morning, Mr. Wirtz. Name and address for the
record, please. Hi, good morning. Uh Christopher Wirtz, [address removed], and that's in [address removed].
Yeah, go ahead with your comment, sir. Yeah.
This is uh I I'm here just uh concerned about our roadway. We've petitioned it twice. Uh where it's failed both times. I've been in contact with Commissioner Starkey's office. And PVAS a a number of times. Uh the road is dangerous. We've seen and I've witnessed and videoed commercial vehicles driving down the wrong side of the road. And my concern is just the danger. We're we're gonna have we're gonna lose a child or somebody running on the street with With these vehicles going down the wrong
side of the road.
All right.
What road was that again?
Um sir, go ahead and repeat that um road. The address uh [address removed]. Yes. [address removed].
But I think we're I think today we're working on a uh P Bass for Lake. Yeah,
R R83 is with that road.
Yes. Yes, sir. So uh help is on the way.
Great. Thank you. Thank you, sir. And Madam Clerk, we have the next person which you s I guess it stated there's a video that'll be played.
That is correct.
Um name I still need a name and address for the record.
So I have my name is Cindy Coach Maker T-R-A-G-E-R. Address is [address removed].
Okay. Morning.
Okay.
All right. Well thank you for that. Um Do we have anybody uh do we have any emails that need to be written into the record? We have three emails
to
be able to do that.
Okay. Well let's we'll proceed with that before we go to the kiosk. Thank you, Madam Clerk.
Oh didn't So d are they supposed to be run into the record? Okay.
Yeah.
It does now?
Please.
The first email is from Gerald Um. Arno guys A I R A N O and address is [address removed]. The BCC and County Administrator. Despite several attempts over the last 25 months to contact you from the Civil Commission Social Security and yourself to ask questions, give criticisms about the mask order, I've received no response. I find this disconnect between local government and citizens to be of equal concern to the topic
at hand. However, I'm limited to three minutes, but please note I believe it to be a uh due to a lack of concern, accountability, and not a lack of manpower. as you get only about 10 comments to any one post. Getting on topic, how is a time where we know so much about the virus, do you continue to push unconstitutional and ineffective measures like a mandatory mass order? Have you seen the C D C study Exhibit A and do you comprehend its findings? I'll break it down. For the use of mass, never rarely, of always In
a 14-day period, it shows the same distribution of masked unmasked people who got COVID compared to a control group of people who did not get it, meaning the masks were not a relevant factor in contra in contracting the virus. Local evidence of mask ineffectiveness would be comparing your county Our county to others who no longer have or never had a county mandatory mask mandate, Exhibit B. Looking at Pasco next to Bravard and Manatee County, which are similar to Pasco in population and case distribution, you can see
it is Pasco the only county with a mandate who has had the largest increase in the cases in the last month. Further real-world proof, though antidote anecdotical. Would be in the restaurants. How many mass less people do servers come in contact direct contact with while they are taking orders and bringing food to the table? I'd say hundreds per day. If a mass mate made um any difference, servers would be disproportionately infected, but they're not. To conclude though you might think I'm
just some selfish jerk with no skin in the game. That is not the case. I am in constant contact with my seventy-year-old father. Immune compromised mother who has cancer and is in the process of chemo. My 99-year-old grandmother turns 100 and
100.
Believe me, if masks did anything anything at all, I would be the first to wear one and would almost be grateful for the unconst for your unconstitutional overreach of authority. However, they do nothing in real world applications and evidence reflects that. This is just a political con job. If I'm wrong, then prove it with any real-world evidence. If you cannot provide any real world proof of its success, then I rightfully ask that you repeat repeal the mask order. I, the hundreds that have signed my
petition asking the same exhibit C, and all freedom-loving citizens that believe in personal choice responsibility, await your response. Thank you for your time. Regards, Gerald.
All right. Next one please.
Okay, the next email is from Mark Vita, who resides at [address removed]. Dear Commissioners, I can point out a hundred doctors who claim masks do not prevent the spread of COVID-19 virus, and you can find a hundred doctors who claim the masks do prevent the spread of COVID-19. From personal experience and talking with my doctors, I can positively state that masks do cause a significant increase in blood pressure and
body temperature. I can tell you about a friend who is deaf in one ear and has a hearing loss. in the other. He reads lips to be able to communicate. He is at a serious disadvantage when anyone has a mask on. We can w we can talk about people with asthma and COPD and how masks do more harm to them than good. But instead, I'd rather go in a different direction. Let's talk about freedom. My father, along with his brother and brother-in-law, fought in World War II. One of my uncles never made it
back home. They went to fight for freedom for them and their families, and you and your families. What do you think they would say today if they were Alive about a forced mask mandate. Where did our freedoms go? Some states are not allowing holiday gatherings in private homes. Some are closing schools and churches. When did elected officials get the power to take away an individual's rights? I strongly recommend that the mask mandate that was initiated by County Administrator Biles be reversed and that wearing masks should be up to each individual, in closing,
based on the Pasco County population of 554,000 people. We had 12,403 or 2.2% positive cases. We had 259 or 0.04 deaths, 0.0% deaths. Think about those numbers, a death rate of 0.04%. And remember, about half of those deaths came from very elderly individuals who were living in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Please vote on ending the current mask mandate for
Pasco County. Thank you for listening. Sincerely, Mark Vita.
The last email is from Rob Park. He lives at [address removed]. Agenda item 49, approve wetland credit purchase agreement. Yeah, EIP Credit Co LLC Agreement for Purchase Mitigation Wetlands Credit for the Ridge Road Extension Project Phase 2. uh two m two million seven hundred thirty nine thousand eight hundred. The taxpayers should not pay for this as the Ridge Road
extension has pending litigation. The litigation will most likely end the Ridge Road extension phase one. Then the need for phase two can be determined. The taxpayers may have to burden the cost of undoing unwanted construction. This board has a reputation of not listening to the taxpayers. More taxpayer voices are heard against the construction of the Ridge Road extension than for. This taxpayer does not want to pay for this. Sincerely, Rob Park. That's it.
Anybody at the kiosk?
Do we have any do we have anybody at the kiosk?
There are two people at
the end.
Yes, you have two people that are signed up.
Okay, great. We can uh name an address for the record, please.
Hi. Oh, that's okay. Hi, name and address. Good morning.
My name is Janine Domrowski, [address removed]. Mm, I come representing myself and a large group of people in Pasco County. Being that you are all Republicans, we would have assumed you would be awake to the fraud being perpetrated on us, the American people. However, many are still ignorant to what is actually going on in the world today. Everything I'm about to say is a fact. But you won't find it on your TV or even a simple search in Google. Our media media is severely compromised. A
huge political agenda, but you should know that. I have brought some binders of information for you all. Please accept them. They're full of information. The PCR tests are a complete fraud. This novel virus has never been isolated. There is no gold standard. Do you even know what that means? I do. Look it up. COVID-19 data collection is a fraud. Death certificates for COVID now done by a different standard than any other infectious diseases. Why? CDC now decides to stop counting the flu.
Why? We have no more deaths this year than any other year. Go check the numbers. We have hospitals getting kickbacks for using COVID to embezzle money. So are the states and counties. Don't think that we don't know because we know. There is no science that says masks are safe. Actually, they are extremely bad for your health on so many levels. I know people that are very sick from wearing a mask. I would have thought it was common sense. I will never wear one, and neither will my child, and neither should anyone else. Body
autonomy is a fundamental right. This is not just about masks, this is a war between good and evil. Today we are drawing a line in the sand. Many people are watching. To see how our local civil war will play out and where you all stand behind the lies and corruption or truth and freedom. Before you go blindly believing Napier, just because he works for the Florida Health Department, it doesn't mean he knows a lick about health and science. I mean look at him. He is also being controlled by the CDC, Fauci, the WHO, the FDA, Gates, and Big Pharma, whom are all being
sued. This tyranny over a pandemic needs to end. It's no different than the flu. Thank you.
Thank you. Um you said we have somebody else at the chaos?
Yes, I do.
She
has binders here. Do you guys want to accept them? To accept the binders?
Okay, I got a motion to accept. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed. Same side. Motion better. Thank you.
I appreciate that.
Down Down the road. Or over here. Over here at the corner. Yes. Oh hello. Good morning.
My name is Natalie Cronin. I live in the [address removed], uh [address removed]. Um, firstly, it is very strange right now that I am in a different building from you. That's Yeah. Let us not pretend that nobody is seeing other people, that this distancing is really doing anything. I am sorry. It is not But what I really came to speak
about is the masks. Of course, mandating masks. Frankly, it is not it is not your place. It just is not. And as somebody who wears them at work and has observed coworkers wearing them in work and customers, it is different to wear them for an eight hour shift versus to wear them to do a quick nip into a store or to walk into a restaurant, sit down and remove it, and you know, in some places replace it between bites, which Really? Contamination
much? What I observe is that people are just, no, it's the way they are wearing them, they are touching their faces more because you can't really breathe in them things. Sorry, no you can't. People will tell you That we're making that up, but it is Not the truth. They are always adjusting them. They are taking them on and off. They are putting them in pockets. And they are sneezing and coughing into them and then continuing on to wear the same mask that is now damp and, you know disgusting
from having been coughed and sneezed into. This Seems to be very good breeding ground to make bacterial infection, which those are still dangerous, those are still real. This virus is not the only thing. And cloth masks. Versus N95s, if cloth masks were so effective at protecting yourself or preventing transmission. Or acting as source control as they say. They would never have bothered having N ninety
fives. His cloth masks he's more sustainable, reusable, cheaper in the long run. Think about it, all the money in this is behind the pro mask, pro mandate movement. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, there is no money behind no masks. All the money is pro mask. Follow the money. Thank you.
Anybody else?
That's it.
All right, well thank you. All right, that closes public comment.