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Arkansas Democrats push Republicans to end ban on mask mandates
The Hill ^ | 07/22/2021 | OLAFIMIHAN OSHIN

Posted on 07/22/2021 1:39:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Arkansas Democratic lawmakers are urging their GOP counterparts to end the state’s ban on mask mandates, The Associated Press reported on Thursday.

In a letter to Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R), Democratic lawmakers asked the governor to call for a special legislative session on the issue of the mask mandate ban.

The lawmakers mentioned how the state’s healthcare workers are struggling with the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, adding that there’s no need to "pile on."

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KEYWORDS: arkansas; democrats; mask; masks; push
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Tell them to pound sand.
1 posted on 07/22/2021 1:39:05 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do not fall for it!


2 posted on 07/22/2021 1:41:02 PM PDT by neverbluffer
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Coverage here about India, Gibraltar, Cyprus etc., that no one is covering. Quite interesting, I thought.

https://www.theblaze.com/op-ed/horowitz-data-from-india-continues-to-blow-up-the-delta-fear-narrative?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210722Trending-HorowitzIndiaDelta&utm_term=ACTIVE%20LIST%20-%20TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News


3 posted on 07/22/2021 1:43:17 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just say NO!!


4 posted on 07/22/2021 1:48:16 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“The best tool to fight the Delta variant and have a safe school year is to increase the vaccination rate in the state," Hutchison said in a statement to The Hill.

Time for Plan B then.

5 posted on 07/22/2021 1:50:57 PM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just posted this on another thread:

This virus still has a 99-percent-plus survival rate and mostly afflicts the elderly and those who are already morbidly obese or in poor health.

This is the way it’s been since the start.

WHY the big push for vaccination now, even among Republican governors?

And don’t tell me, “A big rise in cases!”

“Cases” are not deaths or hospitalizations. A guy could go to a doctor to get a pre-employment test and find out he has COVID, although he has no symptoms at all. That is counted as a “case.”

SOMETHING is driving this new campaign to ratchet up the fear by trying to re-scare us with stories we were reading 18 months ago, with just a couple of embellishments.


6 posted on 07/22/2021 1:53:43 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They’re Democrats, so what else could we expect from them but to want to take away some freedoms.


7 posted on 07/22/2021 1:59:27 PM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Tell em to ESAD.


8 posted on 07/22/2021 2:00:06 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Arkansan here.
Our Governor will side with them. He’s a lame duck Bush republican. I am convinced that either his family has been threatened with death if doesn’t get the state vaccinated - or - he stands to gain an incredible amount of money for hitting some percentage of vaccinations.

Asa will bow down to the democrats on this if he gets a chance. He’s been clutching his ankles for many months and I don’t think he’s going to stop before he’s replaced.


9 posted on 07/22/2021 2:20:30 PM PDT by Outlaw76 (The * in front of *Biden denotes the fraudulent election.)
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To: JennysCool

If you ever figure out what’s driving it - please let me know. I’ve ran out of logical reasons for any of this.


10 posted on 07/22/2021 2:21:43 PM PDT by Outlaw76 (The * in front of *Biden denotes the fraudulent election.)
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To: rrrod

The rats continue to drive this because when the bug finally does die, they can credit Biden with finding the solution and condemn Trump for promoting a fake cure.

We will have another 14 months of this and then there will be a cure which the rats will jump on. Funny, that’s about 8 weeks from election day.


11 posted on 07/22/2021 2:22:42 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (I got the shot. Not because I wanted to. Because I had to, in violation of my civil rights.)
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To: JennysCool

It’s almost August. I think we’re seeing a lot of posturing for when this thing comes into its active season, here.

I, personally, am starting to think that absolutely nothing we are doing is substantively having any effect. I think Texas and Florida have already proved that the sky did not fall, as advertised, when they unmasked. Now we need people willing to keep the masks off.


12 posted on 07/22/2021 2:32:38 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Arkansas Republicans are dumb enough to listen to the leftists we need good people in Arkansas to vote them out in the 2022 primaries.

Remember, if it is a lawyer or it went to an Ivy League college just vote NO.


13 posted on 07/22/2021 2:35:31 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Asa will bow to the Rats.


14 posted on 07/22/2021 2:35:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Outlaw76

Well, there is one thing for sure. This is all the Democrats have got. Once they discovered Trump Derangement pretty much wasn’t working anymore, they had to find something to get people’s minds off our questionable dementia-addled “President.” So I guess another round of COVID fear was in order.


15 posted on 07/22/2021 2:39:02 PM PDT by JennysCool ('It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.' - Mark Twain)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I still get greeted in AR by signs on every door that say “If you’re vaccinated you don’t need a mask” but “We ask those who are without a vaccination to wear a mask”

Screw you.


16 posted on 07/22/2021 2:51:34 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Celerity

At this point in the game I will give NO SIGN that I am not getting the vaccine.

I’m not running a bumper sticker, a mask or anything. They are actually taking names and making lists and I can operate and do what I need to do far easier without being on a list.


17 posted on 07/22/2021 2:52:55 PM PDT by Celerity
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

“Now we need people willing to keep the masks off.”

I observed a significant increase in masking in Tulsa OK yesterday while at COSTCO so I wonder if the group you desire even exist. The Fauci Faction and the attendant propaganda purveyors have burrowed deep into a lot of people’s psyche, it seems.


18 posted on 07/22/2021 3:02:29 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: wildcard_redneck

Yes and No. The current RINO Governor Asa Hutchinson went to the religious and conservative Bob Jones University.


19 posted on 07/22/2021 3:11:31 PM PDT by Nextrush (FREEDOM IS EVERYBODYS BUSINESS, REMEMBER PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: T-Bird45

Actually, I don’t even care if the people wear masks, if they want to be masked. I just want real world results without a mask mandate, and I frankly don’t want little children forced into masks.

BTW, how is the air in Tulsa? The Oregon fires have me wanting to wear a mask outside, here in Idaho.


20 posted on 07/22/2021 3:29:47 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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