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While ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News spent part of their Monday newscasts touting Democratic states like California and New York reinstituting mask mandates, none of them mentioned Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis declaring “the emergency is over” and saying that he wouldn’t enforce a mask mandate; just as he wouldn’t force people to wear jackets in the winter.
Polis’s comments were made to Colorado Public Radio on Friday but had only just percolated up to national attention on Monday. And his argument was simple: it was people’s own responsibility to protect themselves from Covid and it wasn’t the government’s job to babysit them.
“You know, public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that's just not their job,” he said. He also seemed to warn that forcing mask mandates could be a slippery slope to permanent masking. “Public health [officials] would say to always wear a mask because it decreases flu and decreases [other airborne illnesses],” he told interviewer Ryan Warner.
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