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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster (R) on Monday affirmed his decision to not issue a mask mandate in his state as some other governors have amid a renewed surge in COVID-19 largely due to the delta variant.
Speaking on Monday, McMaster said issuing mask mandates for children was the "wrong thing to do."
"We're not going to do it. We're not going to shut our state down as other states did," he said.
"Mandating masks is not the answer. Personal responsibility is the answer,
common sense is the answer and we have an abundance of both in South Carolina."
The Republican governor stopped short of recommending vaccination, instead
calling on residents to "make your (own) decision."
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/567024-sc-gov-mcmaster-doubles-down-on-no-school-mask-mandates-urges
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)"Little twerps can cough all over each other for all I care" said McMaster.
IrishAfricanAmerican
(3,802 posts)an abundance of common sense in the Governor's mansion.
East-A-Squared
(14,505 posts)and common sense.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)tanyev
(42,354 posts)Must be the new GOP talking point. Mask mandates allow more things to stay open. If you stay open without mask mandates you are throwing an all you can eat buffet for the Delta variant.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)ace3csusm
(969 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,235 posts)The single most important job of a Governor is to protect the people of his or her state. This is literally the opposite of that.
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)...he's not trying to prevent locales from mandating in their own schools.
He's an idiot, obviously. But, not as big an idiot as DeSantis.
OneBlueDotS-Carolina
(1,371 posts)McMaster: School mask mandate is wrong thing to do, and were not going to do it
He compared a mask mandate to having commuters park their cars.
If everybody parked their cars, wed probably have a whole lot fewer accidents on the road than we do, because people are driving, but we have to drive and commerce has to go on, he said. We have to go to school, children have to learn, and if it is not necessary for the government to require to mandate that they wear a mask over the opposition of the parents and were simply not going to do that, that is not the governments role.
This conference follows the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Controls announcement that 92% of the cases they have sampled have tested positive for the delta variant of COVID-19.
McMaster said Friday state law is very clear about mask mandates. A state budget proviso prohibits South Carolina educational institutions from using appropriated funds to mandate masks.
https://www.live5news.com/2021/08/09/gov-mcmaster-speak-covid-19-response/
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)Your reply proves it!
GoCubsGo
(32,061 posts)Same shit. Different day. Meanwhile, my shithole town has no ICU beds available, thanks to the latest COVID-19 outbreak among the fucking idiots who put this fucking idiot in office.
Have I told you lately how much I hate this hellhole of a state?