Posted on 08/10/2021 3:25:23 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
Citing exponential growth of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across Kentucky, K-12 schools are now required to enforce universal masking among students and staff, Gov. Andy Beshear announced on Tuesday, as he reported 2,500 new cases — the most reported in a single day since early January.
Beshear said he will sign an executive order Tuesday requiring all teachers, staff and students in K-12 schools, child care and pre-Kindergarten programs across Kentucky to wear a mask indoors. His executive order applies for 30 days and leaves open the indefinite possibility for renewal.
“We are to the point where we cannot allow our kids to go into these buildings unprotected, unvaccinated and face this Delta variant,” he said Tuesday in the state Capitol. “There is no other option. This is absolutely what we have to do.”
Community spread of coronavirus is smothering the state, he said. “We are in the midst of the fastest surge that we have ever seen of [COVID-19] in the commonwealth right now.”
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Groups representing the private sector, education and health care, including public health directors across the state and the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, publicly voiced support for the governor’s mandate on Tuesday.
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There must be bodies everywhere.
Yeah, here we go lying again.
2500 cases wow? How many tests are false positives, how many have been hospitalized, are in the ICU or have died?
The Kentucky Hysterical Fool Tour #2 begins with the little punk king of Frankfort’s decree.
This is coming to a head quicker than I thought. Hearing quiet a few people saying they are not playing anymore with more with the deluded church of covid nonsense.
Why do they keep doing that when masks don’t do anything?
Masks are not the answer they obviously have not worked.
Cases is the new death. The GOP is just as asinine with the COVID BS.
What a drama queen headline.
Wearing a mask for 6 hours cannot be healthy even if it did work.
How convenient, just before school starts up again in the fall.
Have fun with your libtard governor. 😷
Worldometer indicates cases have been going up for 6 weeks - yet deaths are flat.
Everyone might catch a cold...yawn. The death toll must be off the charts.
According to Statista, as of Aug. 4, '21, there have been a total of 349 deaths in all of the U.S. of people 17 yrs old and younger for the entirety of the pandemic. The CDC has said that most of them had underlying health problems.
Translation: “Because the jab proved ineffective, we are resorting once again to the ineffective mask. If that fails again, we will try the ineffective lock-down.”
It's a liberal thing. Do something that doesn't do the slightest bit of good but scores points with the self-proclaimed "sophisticated" in-crowd.
He’s no more my libtard governor than Biden is your libtard fascist president. Both elections were stolen.
I teach in NC, had Covid last December (including a brief hospitalization for a blood clot). I experienced some lung damage from the experience and was having difficulty because of the mask at the end of the Spring term. So, I was really praying we wouldn’t need masks going back this Fall. Happily, the school board voted last night to make them optional.
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