After Maggie Williams of Summit High School in Bend, Oregon, collapsed at the finish line during an 800-meter race last week, outrage erupted over the state’s mask mandate for athletes — even for runners like Williams who compete with the sun shining on their backs and the wind blowing past their faces.
Her coach Dave Turnbull said Williams, with her mask on, suffered “complete oxygen debt,” the Oregonian reported. Indeed, the paper said she fell face-first three meters shy of the finish line and was unresponsive.
"I’ve been doing this for 31 years, I’ve never seen anybody basically lose consciousness… I’ve never seen that in the way it happened.” — Summit HS coach Dave Turnbull on Maggie Williams’ collapse this week in the 800 meters. https://t.co/YD3zzc0nIr
— John Canzano (@johncanzanobft) April 23, 2021
“I am concerned with the mask rule,” Turnbull told the Bend Bulletin after her fall. “This is what I am worried about, and I said this at the beginning of the season. You get a kid running the 800 with a mask on, it is actually dangerous. They don’t get the oxygen that they need. This rule needs to change.”
Zero proof that healthy people have the virus and passing it. This was a possibility but uncertain. Remember smoking kills 480k a year in the US but it’s not a epidemic, crisis or pandemic.
Concerned after the fact. Lawsuit will be after the fact too JACK!