This isn’t about anything but stubborn stupidity …
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is prohibiting local municipalities across the state from mandating that masks be worn in public to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
Kemp’s executive order issued Wednesday prevents local governments from enforcing mandatory face-covering orders that are more restrictive than the current statewide order. The move effectively voided orders issued by at least 15 local governments across the state, according to The Associated Press.
Rather than imposing a mandatory requirement, Kemp’s order states that residents and visitors in the state are “strongly encouraged to wear face coverings as practicable” when in public except when eating, drinking or exercising outdoors.
Candice Broce, a spokesperson for Kemp, doubled down on the governor’s stance that local orders are “unenforceable.”
“Previous executive orders — and now this order — state no local action can be more or less restrictive than ours. We have explained that local mask mandates are unenforceable. The Governor continues to strongly encourage Georgians to wear masks in public,” Broce tweeted….
Robert Reich
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Your reminder that voter suppression gave Georgia Brian Kemp.
Some anti-maskers are comparing the government telling people they have to wear a mask in certain limited temporary situations in public to another government exterminating six million Jews in the Holocaust.
Which is stupid….
People fighting AGAINST keeping them healthy and ALIVE….
Simple Argument Against this Governor’s move…you banned smoking inside buildings for health and safety, you made it a crime to walk the streets nude, but you can’t make it a law/ordinance to mandate mask wearing indoors fo health and safety…Unfortunately this is such a political issue made into more of an issue starting with the Trump team and then trickling down to its baser elements at the local levels…
Great point BDog…..
But one would hope as the tide across the country by even GOPer lawmakers turns to mask wearing?
More people will get past their ego’s and think about their health….
Unfortunately ?
The daily infection numbers do NOT show this….