On Sunday, Utah Governor Gary Herbert ordered a face covering mandate, declaring that the efficacy of mask wearing was not open to discussion and the state “cannot afford to debate this issue any longer.”
“Individual freedom is certainly important, and it is our rule of law that protects that freedom,” Herbert said, but he discarded the laws by declaring, “Laws are put in place to protect all of us. That’s why we have traffic lights, speed limits, and seatbelts, and that’s why we now have a mask mandate.”
The dictates include requiring face coverings whenever state residents are within six feet of someone who does not live in their household.
The mandate went into effect on Monday and will continue until 23 November, the report said. The state, which has a population of some 3.2 million, had 2,386 additional cases on Sunday and 424 people are currently hospitalized. There have been a total of 132,000 confirmed cases and 659 deaths.
Anyone disobeying the mask mandate could face fines up to $10,000.
TRENDPOST: While the governor speaks about individual freedom, he completely disregards it by imposing rules that were not voted on by the representative state government.
Furthermore, Utah, with a population of 3.2 million and 659 virus victims since the COVID War was launched in March, has registered a death rate of 0.0205 percent.
As for Herbert’s statement regarding laws to have “traffic lights, speed limits, and seat belts,” in 2018, 1,284 people died from car accidents – twice the number that have died thus far in 2020 from COVID.
