Don’t expect a mask mandate anytime soon from the City of Greensboro.
Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston held a meeting with mayors of the towns and cities in Guilford County to drum up support for mask mandates.
Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan said that she would not support a mask mandate for the City of Greensboro. Vaughan said, “At this point we don’t have the personnel to support it. We have people out sick. We have people out with sick children and yesterday we had a big weather event that we will be dealing with for a couple of days. We don’t have the personnel to enforce even a temporary mandate.”
Vaughan said, “When I asked the county for temporary help in enforcement they said no.”
Vaughan said that invoking a mask mandate is not like flicking a switch and the light comes on. She said that there had to be advertising, notification and enforcement for a mask mandate to be meaningful and that she would not support a mask mandate that was not going to be enforced.
Vaughan added, “We want to partner with Cone Health and the county in bringing those numbers down, but it has to be a multi-tiered approach.”
Vaughan said that the city could and would help with getting the word out about best practices and what people should be doing to reduce the likelihood of becoming infected.
Vaughan said that she had put Cone Health in touch with the Greensboro Coliseum in hopes of opening a testing and vaccine center at the Coliseum.
Vaughan said that the kind of mask mandate she would support would be for employers requiring their employees to wear masks. She said, “That doesn’t put them in an adversarial relationship with their customers.”
“People feel strongly one way or the other about this and it’s not fair to put someone making $15 an hour in the middle of it,” Vaughan said,
Vaughan said that Greensboro would support the county in its decision but would not be implementing a mask mandate on its own and would not be able to help with enforcement.
Vaughan said that one of the problems Cone Health was having was that, because of the lack of tests available in the area, people were going to the emergency room to get tested. She said, “You can’t buy a test in Guilford County right now.”
I am floored, though her reasoning is mostly logistical. It’s almost like she’s up for re-election or something.
Right!
Mandate Mayor in election season doesn’t have to be a weatherman to see which way the wind blows. Wait……I thought we were following expert recommendations……except in election season. What a hypocrisy.
Focus on vaccines!! They actually work far better than masks and have both short and long-term benefits.
Yes! The long term benefits will be a high incidence of stroke, cardiac inflammation and subsequent cardiac arrest, autoimmune abnormalities like shingles, MS, Lou Gehrig’s disease and others. And the vaccines don’t even work.
They are not “safe” and they are not “effective”.
Only stupid sheep line up to get injected with unproven chemical cocktails.
And there are plenty of them. They believe what the media tell them. They are called liberals.
Where are all these people with strokes, cardiac arrest etc… mRNA vaccine only stays in the body for a brief period of time and the only end results are the same antibodies that the virus produces. So were are all these suffering people Austin “king nutter” Morris?
You are just making stuff up now that billions of people have safely survived the vaccine with extremely low rates of serious side effects. What’s the matter buddy, afraid of a sore arm for a day or two. Oooooo you might get a slight fever….oooohhhh no!
Vaccines are safe and effective. Just ask the 90% of unvaccinated nutters overrunning hospitals. FL hospitalization rate is up over 250% the last two weeks. DC (king nutter town) hospitalization rates are up over 300%. People needing noncovid medical attention are being delayed access to care behind all these antivax nutters!
Your misinformation campaign is a part of the problem and I pray for those foolish enough to buy into your BS.
Good news is that Omicron is spreading fast enough that it may finally get us over the hump for herd immunity. Let’s just hope our medical system can survive the rush in those state with high percentage of nutters.
I believe that we shall see a huge increase in cardiac issues, stroke, and autoimmune disease in the next decade. The evisceration of the immune system caused by these unproven chemicals will also cause those who have been jabbed to succumb to any and all natural viruses that come along. So the vaccine makers will enjoy plausible deniability, and the strong correlation between these sicknesses and the vaccine status of the unfortunates will be swept under the rug and hushed up.
But we shall see this tsunami of serious illnesses and deaths. You deny it.
Time will tell who is right.
Just exactly how do we know the long term effects of the vaccine chris it’s not been around that long. Again you are a MORON
Thanks for asking Will. It’s not complicated. I read and trust the advise of experts who do study these things in great detail. Their input is (summarizing of course) that vaccine only remains in your system for a brief period of time. After the vaccine leaves your system all that is left is the spike protein that is exactly the same as the virus triggers for creating the anti bodies.
So what part of that process scares you Will? Or do you only read the outliers who have no evidence or data to back their scare mongering positions (such as Dr. Malone who claims he single handily invented the science behind the vaccine, although hundreds of others actually participated in development of critical components of the process as he did.)
chris the only thing in this world that scares me are liberal democrats like you who think they know best for others. The fact is we will all die someday that’s a given no matter how many vaccines you get so when my page turns I’m good with it I truly hope you find peace with God and that thought But don’t misunderstand you’re still a moron
Again. Only name calling. No real retort. Do I assume your mind is changed or you lack ability to retort?
Oh my, what a joke. Still not getting my vote.
chris unlike you my mind hasn’t changed I think for myself live the way I live and really don’t need anyone telling me what’s best for me especially liberal democrats like you who listen to every talking head about a virus that’s only been around less than 2 years but they are already expert’s on what it takes to stop it. Seems to be working great doesn’t it. Get right with God chris Your page will turn God said the next time won’t be by flood.
Good job Nancy. Sounds like you might actually be listening to your constituents. Might be to little to late you have an election to loose this year.
Skip Alston is a clown. If it were up to him and the other members of that board you’d be walking around with a mask permanently stitched to your face.
Calmer heads prevail or another political move?
Either way I applaud you Queen Nancy!
Well now they know what they should have done with the millions of dollars worth of Covid 19 money the feds gave them. They sat on it, then asked the public what they thought should be done with it. I proposed then and still feel the money should go to local colleges that provide nursing programs. We need medical staff. This isn’t going to help short term, but could save us in the future.
If Nancy supports a mandate for the county, she’s supporting it for the City. Just because the City doesn’t have the staff to enforce it, doesn’t mean it will not exist. Skippy will prevail with his continued stupidity.
We’ve been at this for long enough that everyone who isn’t living under a mushroom knows where they stand. Those who wish to wear a mask, are free to do so.
Everywhere I go, employees are wearing masks, so that aspect is moot.
Mayor Vaughan is completely out of touch with her city. She has NO idea what is going on in GSO and she does not care! If she cared, she would be working with Cone Health and declaring GSO a “State of Emergency”.
I hand firsthand knowledge the Cone Health system is in complete turmoil and GC Citizens are dying as a result.
I really don’t know how Nancy Vaughn sleeps at night. Vaughn must think GSO residents are idiots.
@Janet, you said, “Vaughn must think GSO residents are idiots.”
We (collectively) elected her, so she may be right.
There must be an election sometime this year!