Utah Gov. Cox bucks county-wide mask mandates, exempts state-run facilties from COVID-19 masking

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Utah is currently facing record-high coronavirus cases driven by the more transmissible omicron COVID-19 variant.

"There is no way the Legislature is going to approve a mask mandate at this stage," Gov. Spencer J. Cox said on Tuesday, during his administration's update on the ongoing pandemic, Aug. 31, 2021 at the Capitol.Gov. Spencer Cox waived mask mandates for all state-run facilities on Monday, bucking current and future county-wide mandates as the omicron variant rages through Utah.

Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson disagreed that Cox had the ability to remove county mask requirements from state buildings. “At this time, we believe, whether mandated or not, that face-coverings are necessary and mandatory in all indoor spaces open to the public in Summit County,” said Conway in a statement.announced a 30-day, countywide indoor mask mandate

 

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Hospitals will be full before Caillou pretends to be moderate again.

The party formally known as Republican today can accurately be compared to partisans in The revolutionary war.

Number of cases is irrelevant. Severity of cases is the relevant meteic. Deaths and hospitalization ratio is still down.

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