Posted on 08/21/2021 8:24:39 AM PDT by george76
Four college presidents in southern Virginia went maskless at an indoor meeting on August 10, just after announcing indoor mask mandates for their respective students and faculty.
Video reporting from WHSV 3 shows the presidents of James Madison University, Eastern Mennonite University, Bridgewater College, and Blue Ridge Community College speaking to each other indoors, in close proximity, without masks.
On August 9, the day before the event, JMU president Jonathan Alger and senior university leaders issued a school wide message about updated COVID-19 protocols.
"Beginning Aug. 16," the statement said, "all JMU employees and students, regardless of vaccination status, will be temporarily required to wear masks in indoor spaces on owned or leased university property when in close proximity to others."
Blue Ridge Community College President John Downey appears maskless in some parts of the video, though he is masked in others. His college's indoor mask mandate took effect the same day of the event.
The same day of the meeting, Eastern Mennonite University announced its own indoor mask mandate that would take effect on Aug. 16th. The day before the meeting, Bridgewater College announced a mask mandate that would take effect on Aug. 11th.
Alger, Downey, and Eastern Mennonite University President Susan Schultz Huxman each delivered remarks to the room without wearing a mask, a privilege they now deny to their faculty.
WHSV 3 reporter John Hood tweeted a photo of the college presidents with the college presidents in which no one is wearing a mask.
The group gathered at the Presidents Address breakfast, an annual event hosted off-campus by the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce. The event was an opportunity for local college leaders to speak to each other and to attendees about their plans for the upcoming school year.
Some animals are more equal than others—not gonna stop until there is a slave rebellion.
Higher ups do not have germs.
Yep..... and the virus is racist.
They may not be wearing masks, but at least they’re doing so in a sophisticated fashion.
(Assuming that “sophisticated” is the adjective form of “sophistry.”)
That’s right. They’re too “sophisticated.”
They don’t because they’re “sophisticated” dontcha know!
The virus knows to leave special people alone!
And their sh*t doesn’t stink.
Ask Governor Newscum how that’s working out for him. Hopefully my recall ballot doesn’t “accidentally” get lost in the mail.
Some thought it couldn't be done. Then it was done. Federal court strikes down vaccine mandate & restrictions on unvaccinated. https://t.co/MSGxGNTBLA— Robert Barnes (@barnes_law) August 23, 2021
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