{"id":1286532,"date":"2022-02-09T19:37:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1286532"},"modified":"2022-02-09T19:37:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T00:37:55","slug":"psaki-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-blue-state-governors-defying-cdc-guidelines-and-desantis-standing-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-blue-state-governors-defying-cdc-guidelines-and-desantis-standing-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki: There Is A \u2018Distinct Difference\u2019 Between Blue State Governors Defying CDC Guidelines And DeSantis \u2018Standing In The Way\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-there-is-a-distinct-difference-between-blue-state-governors-defying-cdc-guidelines-and-desantis-standing-in-the-way%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1286532&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday there is a \u201cdistinct difference\u201d between Democratic governors scrapping mask mandates and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 handling of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had another state today drop the indoor mask mandate as the CDC is confirming that their guidance is not changing. But these decisions that are being made at the local level\u2026 are out of step with the science,\u201d one reporter began. \u201cSo, why are we not hearing the same messaging criticizing states that are, you know, making these moves like we heard previously with, for instance, Ron DeSantis?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would say there is a distinct difference between standing in the way, which Ron DeSantis did \u2014 or, Governor DeSantis, I\u2019ll give him his full title \u2014 of teachers, school administrators and others taking steps to protect the students and their school communities,\u201d Psaki answered. \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between standing in the way of it \u2014 threatening to pull back funding \u2014 and allowing for local school districts to make choices, which is what a number of these states are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>States including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/new-jersey-to-drop-school-mask-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Jersey<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/08\/new-york-mask-vaccine-mandate-covid-coronavirus-kathy-hochul\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York<\/a>, Nevada and Delaware have dropped or drastically rolled back their state\u2019s mask mandates in defiance of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/prevent-getting-sick\/about-face-coverings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommending<\/a> that individuals, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors at all times. The governors cited changing science and improving COVID-19 conditions as justification for easing masking policies.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/09\/jen-psaki-joe-biden-mask-mandates-cdc-guidance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommended<\/a> Wednesday that individuals follow the CDC\u2019s guidelines on COVID-19, regardless of state policy. She further noted that no parent, teacher of school board should \u201cbe penalized\u201d for enforcing mask mandates. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/27\/lying-through-her-teeth-desantis-jen-psaki-florida-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Lies Through Her Teeth\u2019: DeSantis Calls Out Psaki\u2019s Statements On Florida\u2019s Handling Of COVID-19)&nbsp;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis issued a July 30 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/30\/ron-desantis-executive-order-children-mask-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">executive order<\/a> banning local school boards from implementing mask mandates with the intent to \u201cempower parents to be able to make the best decisions they can for the well-being of their children.\u201d In August, the governor <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/09\/desantis-florida-schools-salaries-mask-mandates-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened<\/a> to withhold the salaries of superintendents and school board members enforcing masking guidelines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/09\/joe-biden-ron-desantis-schools-mask-mandates-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Joe Biden<\/a> accused the governor of \u201cbullying\u201d school officials and threatened to get governors \u201cout of the way\u201d in a Sept. 9 address. Psaki previously said DeSantis\u2019 efforts to block COVID-19 protocols were \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/05\/deadly-serious-jen-psaki-responds-ron-desantis-slamming-covid-restrictions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deadly serious<\/a>,\u201d claiming that he had countered public health recommendations at an Aug. 5 press briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Wednesday there is a \u201cdistinct difference\u201d between Democratic governors scrapping mask mandates and Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 handling of COVID-19.\u201cWe had another &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}