Well, the residents of Guilford County may have blown their chance to go maskless indoors at public entertainment venues, stores and restaurants.
Chairman of the Guilford County Board of Commissioners Skip Alston – who was a big advocate of a countywide mask mandate in the battle against COVID-19 earlier this year – said this week that he’s setting up a meeting with county health officials and others to see if the mask mandate should be adopted once again.
“I am calling for a meeting with them on Thursday, Jan. 13 to discuss their thoughts and consider any suggestions they may make,” Alston said on Thursday, Dec. 30.
At that meeting, the Board of Commissioners could vote to implement a new mask mandate or decide to take other measures – or do both.
In late summer, the last time the board was alarmed about rising COVID-19 case numbers, the commissioners voted to implement a mask mandate for everyone anytime they were indoors at a public place in Guilford County.
The commissioners stated that the mandate would stay in place until the positivity rate of COVID-19 tests in Guilford County fell below 5 percent for three weeks. On Monday, Nov. 15, the board voted to rescind the mandate – but said it would be revisited if the coronavirus case numbers began to rise. In recent days, the positivity rate has been almost four times what the board deemed an acceptable level in the summer of 2021 when the mask mandate was implemented.
Alston, the chairman of the majority party on the board, will no doubt be the one who ultimately makes the call. He said this week that he can’t say right now whether a mandate will be needed once again.
“I’m not sure,” he said, adding, “I will follow the advice of the medical professionals. The numbers and stats are not looking good now.”
Alston said county officials will also get an update from Guilford County Health Director Dr. Iulia Vann and consider any recommendations she may make.
Time to leave Guilford County
We need the mandate now! We do not need to wait until the middle of January, we need it now.
As a small business owner, I would appreciate the help of my county seat to try to keep my employees safe at all times. Be smart! Mask Guilford County Up and social distance. This is a ridiculous thing to have to beg for when things are worse now than they ever have been. Help our businesses stay alive durning this world pandemic. Think about if all the employees have to go home due to sickness, then WE ALL suffer. It’s time for our leaders here in Greensboro to take this virus seriously. We need a task force to implement fines for individuals or businesses who do not comply. We need a LARGE enforcement backing on this issue NOW, why wait, call up a meeting today!
This is satire right? You can’t possibly be begging for more ridiculous failed mandates so more business leaves Guilford County since MASK DON’T WORK!!!!! The haven’t worked in 20 months, the epicenter is masked and vaxxed NYC (again).
Please – at least share which business you run. I’ll be more than happy to avoid it FOREVER (along with my entire family and many friends in Guilford County who are tired of dehumanizing and completely ineffective mandates).
If you actually gave 2-cents about your employees and customers, you’d invest in high quality air filtration. That actually works!!!!
Sincerely, a 1% in Greensboro who will be glad to not go anywhere near your business ever again. I prefer businesses and people that solve problems rather than those Karens who hysterically virtue signal useless nonsense like you.
If you’re that scared close up shop move on to DC and live next door to slo joe and lame duck nancy
Trying to stop a virus with a mask is equivilent to trying to stop mosquitoes with a chain link fence. The science says masks do NOT stop viruses.
For those who erroneously believe the masks stops the virus, appear to have never stopped to think that if masks really work, the ones wearing masks would be safe from those who aren’t.
In my opinion the owners of companies selling masks are getting very rich, which I suspect is the main goal of these masks.
You are overlooking the obvious. I you want your customers masked, specify so at the door. Then I can decide if I want to frequent your business.
We are full-up with people who want to control others by force.
Bye. Glad to hear you are leaving. Beat wishes.
Skippy – we have been through this before – let me remind you
1: We the people won’t comply- we did not submit the first two times and won’t submit this time
2: masks never worked to begin with- Look at Florida and Texas
3: the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Quit trying to impose unenforceable tyrannical mandates and let individuals decide what’s best for them
I have never worn a mask and never had any issues in Guilford county.
One time at the coliseum they tried to tel me I could not enter with out a mask and I smiled and said I’m exempt and then Walked right in to a crowd of 10,000 smiling faces
Any business that actually tries to enforce this tyranny simply looses the sale.
I bet a cleaver person could get Austin to “properly” pronounce Omicron. Austin – it’s pronounced “Immacold.” Get it right!!!!
The masks are working so well in NYC, along with the 3-jab capital of the country, that NYC is both the epicenter of the outbreak, and seeing rising deaths. All these policies crush are the human spirit and for the scared babies under 50 hiding at home, completely destroyed immune systems.
I will not comply and didn’t with Austin’s last lunacy. I can define “aerosol.” What I did was donate to Brownstone Institute as well as several legal funds fighting this insanity. I stopped donating to woke Guilford charities I once sponsored annually to fund these better contributions to saner organizations.
I endorse your remarks G’boromom, but the guy’s name is ALSTON, not Austin.
I’ve lost a cousin and a friend I have known all my life . Both dead within three weeks of taking the vaccine. Neither had covid. Both were fine before taking the vaccine. Both died from vaccine. The vaccine is NOT a vaccine. Notice the vaccinated are contracting covid?
The “vaccines” (they are not vaccines in the conventional sense) are ticking time bombs in the body. Over the next few years we’ll see huge increases in heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune diseases and other deadly illnesses.
That’s all well and good but if you want the public to buy into your BS skippy you should set the example and learn to wear your mask properly which means covering your nose and mouth at the same time
Dumb and dumber!
Skip-the-Hyp is drunk with power.
I’m surprised it took this long for it to come back up.
Oh Geezzz
Let’s pray that the Omnicron variant comes and goes before January 13.
Herr Alston does love POWER. There is a large amount of data finally getting to the public that debunks the protection of any cloth mask, or any mask with less than N95 efficiency. There is also a large volume of data available suggesting this variant may well inhibit or deter earlier variants including the DELTA variant.
If Herr Alston will listen to more than one medical voice he’ll go back to hustling his billion dollar plus school building referendum and get off the mask train.
Für irhe Sicherheit!
Not happening. Most people are done with this nonsense. Your perceived power is over. The last mandate fizzled out and this one will too, just more quickly…
Did not know Skip was medically qualified to make such a call. His party in DC has certainly been flipping back and forth and confusing the public.
I’ll wear my mask and use common sense.
Don’t need Skip or Uncle Joe and his federal hacks trying to help me on mask mandates and other health issues.
Use your brain.
Lol, good luck with that.
Masks have been proven in affective and unhealthy. If your so called medical experts claim any different they are in dereliction of duty and oath. Please go beyond political data and check the actual account of who is spreading the virus. If you have been vaccinated then you are a more danger to the public.
Alston is an idiot. Hospitalizations and deaths are down. The cloth masks are just decoration, as many news outlets (including CNN) have reported this week. Follow the science, not virtue signaling.
Imagine that after the largest spreading event at the coliseum…Eric Church concert on Dec 18
Nobody is stopping you from wearing a mask if you want to. But the studies do not show a positive benefit, nor do timelines of country and state based mandates juxtaposed beside covid positivity rates.
Skip, our patience is wearing thin with this garbage. Don’t do it. I will not comply.
Surprise! Surprise! Us peasants don’t currently have enough freedom, so Skippy is going to take it away, again!
Skippy “Chicken Little” Alston needs to get over this face diaper fixation. CDC themselves confirm it.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/pdfs/mm7010e3-H.pdf
Seems to me based on the mild symptoms reported, Omicron is a blessing in disguise. Basically a bad cold that confers COVID immunity to you going forward w/o the serious risk inherent in the RNA gene thearpy injection.
HELL NO TO MASKS!!!!!!!!!
I have had the 2 shots, Booster & flu shot…..let me be!!!
Thank you. We need more of people in your situation to speak out. Those who have complied with the shots, and are fed up with it all. If the two sides come together, this will end. Has America truly had enough yet?
CNN Medical Analyst Dr Leana Wen : “Cloth masks are little more than facial decorations” [ CNN “Newsroom” 2021/12/21 ].
Hey Skippy and all you deluded mask Nazis – when even CNN admits THEY DON’T WORK, it’s time to give up on the charade.
Unless you’re just drunk on power…
Well Herr Alston is mandating again. I, for one, am not surprised. Well the people who use mandates for power and control need to be reminded of the power of “no”.
Like during the last power trip of the local worthies, many of us boycotted any business or entity who tried to force a free citizen to “mask up” .
Authoritarianism isn’t for my home county, state or country. Don’t buy Greensboro or Guilford.
Because all those mandates and vaccines are working so well in NY, Denmark, UK, anywhere? These people that worship Austin are definitionally insane. If they actually cared, they’d be asking the very high risk who have no natural immunity to stay in more in January, regardless of how many now useless jabs they got. Instead, the morons that report to Austin will put in place more harmful and completely useless mitigation.
Like many places, we literally had a mask mandate in place that started before, and continued until long after, the most deadly wave last year. Cone has a D- on “saving lives.” NYC, with all its jabs, boosters, and masks, beginning before Omicron, pronounced “Immacold” (Alex Brenenson), arrived in town, is the epicenter with deaths skyrocketing and their dashboard doesn’t “count” vaccination status. NY “estimates” it based on rates from March to June when they actually counted (and only those 2 weeks post second jab were “vaccinated” even though many of the dead got at least 1 shot, often 2). Yes, if you read their “methodology” they put it right there on the website, most people are just too lazy to read – they prefer face diapers and perpetual fear.
Alston – it doesn’t work and I never complied with your last useless mandate. I’ll eventually get Covid if I haven’t had it, just like all the boostered face diapers lovers WILL GET COVID if exposed. It’s a contagious virus. That’s what they do!!!!
What she said!
Go Gboro Mom !! Very well said !!
Reminder that Alamance county and Randolph county welcome our spending dollars.
There ya’ go. I don’t need to spend a dime in Downtown GSO. Those folks in Burlington & Liberty smile & say “THANK YOU:”
This is completely insane. Guess I will have to go back to doing all my shopping and dining out in Alamance County. Is that good for Guilford, Skip?
Please do. It makes Guilford county a much better place when you leave.
Delta’s ready when you are, Chris.
Everyone here will chip in to pay for your ticket. Gladly.
Once again, the minority is dictating to the majority. Good politics on Skip’s part. He is pandering to his electorate. That being a very large number of constituents who are not vaccinated.
However, the definition of democracy is: The majority rules with minority rights protected & the minority has the right to seek the majority.
Mr. Alston has figured this out in his many years in politics.
Once again, a politician who demonstrates his needs over the majority.
If we continue to let the inmates (unvaccinated people) run the asylum, this will never end.
Let people who wish to wear a mask do so, & those who do not do so as well.
Mr. Alston, it is time for you to retire and let some new people make their own mistakes.
Thanks for all of your efforts over the years,
Goodbye