I hear what you are saying. IMO, the mask and covid measures in Portland feels to me to be more political based.

I really don’t understand the logic in America when it comes to the current thinking about covid measures.

You could say I have a Scandinavian perspective to this, but here in Norway everyone listened and trusted to what the government recommended and/or mandated. It has been a little more than a year since the last pandemic measure was lifted and we have been back to “normal”.