Thomas Wolfe wrote that you can’t go home again, but it may very well be the case that you can be required to wear masks again.
Just when people were getting used to seeing each other’s faces, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners may vote to require masks indoors at public places again.
That’s one issue that will be determined at an emergency meeting of the commissioners to be held at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 10.
On Monday evening, Aug. 9, Chairman of the Guilford Board of Commissioners Skip Alston said he was calling a meeting of “the Guilford County Board of Health” – which, in other words, is a meeting of the Board of Commissioners.
About seven years ago, the Guilford County Board of Commissioners voted to do away with the county’s Board of Health and that means that those duties now fall on the shoulders of the county commissioners.
As the Board of Health, the Board of Commissioners will decide whether or not to implement new masks mandates to battle COVID-19 and determine the conditions under which those masks would be required.
The board could also take other steps to battle COVID-19. By now, members of the public are familiar with the playbook.
Some county employees who do not wish to get vaccinated are worried that the Board of Commissioners will require them. However, that doesn’t seem, at this point, to be a road the board is likely to go down. Instead, Alston and other county leaders are strongly encouraging county employees to get vaccinated – and it could be that there will soon be regular testing required for employees who choose not to do so.
Normally, the county commissioners are required by state law to give at least 48 hours’ notice before a meeting; however, the state’s public meetings law allows an exception for “emergency” meetings.
This is the second emergency meeting called by Alston in two days. On Monday, Alston held a meeting with the mayors of the cities and towns in the county to discuss the pandemic.
Monday evening at about 9 p.m., Commissioner James Upchurch was seeking input from county residents.
Upchurch tweeted, “Tomorrow, Guilford County Commissioners will be voting on a Public Health Rule that would require masks to be worn indoors. Please send your support or opposition to jupchurch@guilfordcountync.gov.”
If there’s not a crisis, by all means let’s create one! I believe Rham Emanuel teaches a special class on this every year at the national convention. Moderate Republicans & conservative Democrats have appeased the crying liberals and whiny progressives for so long the lines have blurred into oblivion. It’s okay to check a different box at the polls next time. Your way of life and future generations may just depend on it!
Show us the benefits of wearing a mask, then we MAY consider agreeing.
How silly for surgeons to wear masks while operating on people. Must just be a torture devise to punish the over educated. What sheep!
Last time I checked, I was not performing surgery. You are free to wear a mask all you want.
*Show me the benefits of wearing a mask, then I MAY consider agreeing*
Fixed it for you! Please speak for yourself.
I have sent an email. Why cause our community to go back into this us vs them environment. This divides us more. We have done this for a year. It doesn’t work. Let’s focus on healing. Let’s treat those sick.
Close the border Biden , stop the spread !
Skip Alston is now King Alston …
“This divides us more.”
You have just hit the nail on the head. Demoralization and division are what’s behind mask mandates, and “experts” trying to convince people that vaccinated folks are getting sick because of unvaccinated folks.
Trump blew their racism narrative out of the water when he reduced unemployment numbers in the black community to historically all-time lows, so they have had to come up with new ways to divide us. Looks like it’s working…
The only large scale study on the efficacy of face masks has been conducted in Denmark (DANMASK-19). It was a real world scientific study involving 6,000 people, half of whom wore face masks whenever they left home, and half did not.
There was no difference in the rate of Covid infection
Except for medical N-95 masks, FACE MASKS MAKE NO DIFFERENCE AT ALL.
The virus is about 0.2 microns wide. As a British scientists put it, wearing a face mask is like firing marbles at a builders’ scaffolding. Sure, some of them will bounce back, but nearly all will pass right through.
Masks are not about safety or “science”, they are a form of compliance conditioning. Which is why the sheep wear them.
Dare to think for yourself.
Masks are part of an overall means to protect us from the virus. Masks by themselves (especially cloth masks) are the solution. It is part of a process….social distancing + frequent hand washing + avoiding crowded indoor places + masks. It works. I have not had a sniffle or a cough in over a year and I LOVE it. I also choose to wear N-95 masks that are now widely available. The are much more comfortable and easy to put on and off.
Are you a sheep for maintaining safe speed driving a car, stopping at red lights, no running at the pool, using your drivers license as ID, getting a license to buy a gun, etc….. I am old enough to recall all the nutters having hissy fits over the mandate to wear seatbelts in the car. Don’t be a nutter. Be a good member of the community.
Chris….. your attempts to deflect and deceive are funny. You ought to be a comedian. When Leftists know they can never win a debate, they throw out as many red herrings as they can, o as to confuse the issue and muddy the waters. So suddenly we’re talking about seat belts and speed limits….
It’s laughable.
If you want to debate the issue of the efficacy of face masks, let’s do so.
But please try to focus.
If you can.
Screw you Skip. I heard on the radio today there are a whopping number of 78 people at Cone with Covid. The population of Guilford County is 541,000 as of 2020. Keep us all under the thumb. I will not be going ANYWHERE that requires me to wear a mask. I can have my groceries delivered. Keep killing businesses. Just wonder where the tax base is going to come from to support the population that does not work in Guilford County.
It’s not the current number, it is the spike in cases. Number of cases has spiked by 10x from 15 new cases per day to 150 new cases per day. As Barney says, Nip It in the Bud.
Cases does not mean people are sick and dying. Most people are do not have symptoms. The rate of people getting tested for every little runny nose also contributes. As I said before, feel free to wear a mask.
Stick to selling hotdogs Mr. Alston. Please!
i am so tired of liberals and democrats in power. they just get off on this. they all act the same at every level of power. why cant republicans act this way when they are in power?
And the weak lemmings and elderly we have on the Board of Commissioners and City Council are led around by their party affiliation and sheep like attitudes. (And yes I know council does not declare a party but let’s not pretend all of them on city council are Squad type Democrats and RINOs. The city council should have told Skip no and managed the city within city jurisdiction. But those old ladies, sorry Justin O.,, are sheepeople. They have no intestinal fortitude to stand up, treat this “pandemic “ as an 18 month torture that needs to end. And I mean end through going back to life. If you want to wear a mask, do it.
We don’t need a mandate. Skip is already free to wear a mask if he wants. I’ll admit that it would be very nice to not see his face in Guilford County for the next hundred years or so.