Many Colorado Republicans go maskless during special session on COVID-19 relief
Source: Denver Post
At the onset of a special legislative session designed to address the extraordinary and ever-worsening devastation wrought by COVID-19 in Colorado, many elected Republicans chose to go maskless inside the Capitol.
The legislature is meeting this week to allocate an expected sum of roughly $328 million in COVID-19 relief. As of last week, state estimates suggested 1 in 41 Coloradans was contagious with the virus.
There is a statewide mask mandate, and safety protocols approved by legislative leadership ahead of the special session stated that masks should be worn at all times while in the building or anywhere in the Capitol Complex. Lawmakers have been asked, but are not required, to wear masks while seated at their desks on the chamber floors.
Some Republican legislators chose to go maskless for parts of the day Monday, and the Democrats who control majorities in both chambers and, thus, procedure werent keen to try to force any change in behavior.
Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/30/colorado-gop-legislature-masks-covid/
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)who refuse wear a mask, shan't be permitted to be vaccinated until after all others are vaccinated!
Hotler
(11,353 posts)bluestarone
(16,720 posts)I hope they REFUSE it!
Judi Lynn
(160,211 posts)It's very possible insisting they won't wear their masks is actually a substitute for their real hearts' desire: pantless. There's one way to find out.
bucolic_frolic
(42,661 posts)So be it. May their tribe decrease.
Hip2bSquare
(291 posts)Luckily, I have a nice collection of masks to wear when I need to get out and about in CO. The endless stupidty of republicans would be easy to joke about if their actions weren't so deadly.