{"id":190847,"date":"2021-03-05T08:59:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=190847"},"modified":"2021-03-05T09:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T14:19:54","slug":"alabama-governor-extends-mask-order-were-not-there-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alabama-governor-extends-mask-order-were-not-there-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Governor Extends Mask Order: \u2018We\u2019re Not There Yet\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\">18<\/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%2Falabama-governor-extends-mask-order-were-not-there-yet%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=190847&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--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alabama\">Alabama<\/a>\u2019s governor on March 4 extended the statewide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mask\">mask<\/a> mandate, in contrast to a number of counterparts who earlier this week eased mask restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo most states have taken to remove the mask order altogether and lift up the restrictions. Folks, we\u2019re not there yet, but goodness knows we are getting closer. A new modified order will include several changes that will ease up some of our current restrictions, while keeping our mask order in place for another five weeks,\u201d Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, said during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>After April 9, the order will be rescinded, Ivey promised.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no question that wearing mask has been one of our greatest tools in combating the spread of the virus. That, along with practicing good hygiene and social distancing has helped us keep more people from getting sick, or worse, dying,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even when we lift the mask order, I will continue to wear my mask while I\u2019m around others, and strongly urge my fellow citizens to use common sense and do the same thing, but at that time, it will become a matter of personal responsibility and not a government mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alabama has seen a drop of 82 percent in the seven-day average for new COVID-19 cases since Jan. 10. The average as of Tuesday was 778 per day.<\/p>\n<p>The state has also seen a decrease in the average of daily COVID-19 hospital patients.<\/p>\n<p>A number of governors, including the governors of Texas and Mississippi, earlier this week withdraw their mask mandates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt that time, it will become a matter of personal responsibility and it is clear from the recoveries, vaccinations, reduced hospitalizations, and safe practices that Texans are using that state mandates are no longer needed,\u201d Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/texas-governor-ends-statewide-mask-mandate-allows-all-businesses-to-fully-reopen_3717796.html\">told<\/a> a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3722086 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/alabama-cheerleaders-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"3300\" height=\"1974\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Band members wear masks as they perform before a football game between Thompson and Oxford in Alabaster, Ala., on Aug. 22, 2020. (Butch Dill\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 is the disease caused by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/giving-the-right-name-to-the-virus-causing-a-worldwide-pandemic-2_3277200.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus<\/a>. Studies indicate masks can prevent transmission of the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have fallen sharply across the United States, prompting some officials to loosen restrictions. President Joe Biden and his top health advisers, though, have said now is not the time to weaken rules on mask wearing.<\/p>\n<p>Biden told reporters in Washington on March 3\u00a0that the nation is making progress with vaccines, but \u201cthe last thing we need is Neanderthal thinking that in the meantime, everything\u2019s fine, take off your mask and forget it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott hit back during an appearance on \u201cFox &#038; Friends, saying the insult \u201cobviously is not the type of thing that a president should be saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut second, he kind of said it on the worst day he could have. Because the same day he said that, in Texas, the Biden administration was releasing illegal immigrants into our communities who had COVID,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Thursday that Biden\u2019s insult \u201cwas a reflection of his frustration and exasperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She also reacted to Abbott\u2019s immigrant claim.<\/p>\n<p>Migrants are tested for COVID-19 when they are \u201cplaced in alternatives to detention,\u201d with the help of state and local officials and non-governmental groups, she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn general, our approach and our policy is to work with local governments, work with NGOs to ensure\u2014to have testing\u2014to ensure these migrants are tested. And that can take place, in that steps for isolation, quarantining, and medical care can be taken should that be needed,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama\u2019s governor on March 4 extended the statewide mask mandate, in contrast to a number of counterparts who earlier this week eased mask restrictions. \u201cSo most states have taken to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/alabama-cheerleaders-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alabama Governor Extends Mask Order: \u2018We\u2019re Not There Yet\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/alabama-cheerleaders-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Alabama Governor Extends Mask Order: \u2018We\u2019re Not There Yet\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190847","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=190847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}