{"id":1444124,"date":"2022-04-18T13:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1444124"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:46:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:46:04","slug":"university-of-connecticut-brings-back-again-forced-masking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-connecticut-brings-back-again-forced-masking\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Connecticut Brings Back again Forced Masking"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Funiversity-of-connecticut-brings-back-again-forced-masking%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=1444124&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/UNLV-Holds-Hybrid-In-Person-And-Remote-Classes-Amid-COVID-19-Pandemic-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The University of Connecticut is one of the latest entities to bring back forced masking as federal health officials refuse to lift the federal mask mandate on public transportation and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2022\/04\/10\/fauci-predicts-uptick-in-covid-floats-indoors-mask-requirement\/\">tease<\/a> the possibility of the return of more mask mandates in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfsb.com\/2022\/04\/18\/masks-return-parts-uconn-campus\/\">marks<\/a> the first day of the return of the university\u2019s mask mandate, which it <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2022\/04\/masking-update-protecting-our-health-for-the-days-ahead\/\">attributes<\/a> to a \u201csubstantial\u201d rise in positivity rates \u201cboth in the state of Connecticut and on UConn\u2019s Storrs campus and the potential risk this poses to the remainder of the in-person semester and commencement.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The returned mask mandate applies to all \u201cindoor instructional settings, workspaces, and indoor events exceeding 100 individuals, effective Monday April 18.\u201d Employees are also instructed to wear masks \u201cin the workplace.\u201d These policies will last until the end of the semester.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe goal of this decision is to protect health on our campuses and to help ensure that the remaining weeks of the semester and UConn\u2019s commencement ceremonies can be conducted in-person,\u201d university officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA widespread outbreak that overwhelms university health services and available isolation space could potentially disrupt both,\u201d they continued, explaining that the positivity rate is increasing among students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the most recent seven-day reporting period, there were approximately 150 new positive cases both on- and off-campus,\u201d they said, claiming that a mask requirement \u201cfurther enhances that level of safety,\u201d despite data showing that cloth and surgical masks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/08\/24\/study-surgical-and-cloth-masks-filter-roughly-10-efficient-at-blocking-aerosols\/\">are not effective<\/a> at blocking aerosols \u2014 a fact often ignored by federal health officials as well.<\/p>\n<p>University of Connecticut students are not the only individuals having to deal with the return of mask mandates. Earlier this month, Georgetown University <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wusa9.com\/article\/news\/local\/dc\/georgetown-university-temporarily-reinstates-mask-mandate-starting-thursday\/65-0576f7d4-6662-40be-920c-31e58c41d506\">reinstituted <\/a>its mask mandate, in effect\u00a0\u201cuntil further notice.\u201d Monday also marked the return of the City of Philadelphia\u2019s indoor mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Federal health officials are not prepared to let masks go either, as the Biden White House \u2014 once again \u2014\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/04\/13\/biden-administration-extends-federal-transportation-mask-mandate-again\/\">allowed<\/a> an extension of the federal mask mandate for public transportation, which was supposed to expire Monday \u2014 the same day many of these mask mandates are making their comeback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Connecticut is one of the latest entities to bring back forced masking as federal health officials refuse to lift the federal mask mandate on public transportation and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444124","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\/1444124","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444124\/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=1444124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}