{"id":1922169,"date":"2023-05-01T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-still-hasnt-dropped-its-mask-mandate-for-driver-tests\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T13:45:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:45:24","slug":"illinois-still-hasnt-dropped-its-mask-mandate-for-driver-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-still-hasnt-dropped-its-mask-mandate-for-driver-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Still Hasn&#8217;t Dropped Its Mask Mandate for Driver Tests"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fillinois-still-hasnt-dropped-its-mask-mandate-for-driver-tests%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=1922169&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--><h2>Did You Know? Illinois Secretary of State\u2019s Office Still Requires Masks for Driver\u2019s Tests<\/h2>\n<h3>Protecting Health or Overreach?<\/h3>\n<p>Even though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-still-hasnt-dropped-its-mask-mandate-for-driver-tests\/\" title=\"Illinois Still Hasn't Dropped Its Mask Mandate for Driver Tests\">statewide mask mandate ended<\/a> over 400 days ago, the Illinois Secretary of State\u2019s Office still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-likely-to-end-face-mask-mandate-on-june-15\/\" title=\"California likely to end face mask mandate on June 15\">requires face coverings<\/a> for driver\u2019s tests. State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-week-in-campus-insanity-vol-43\/\" title=\"This Week in Campus Insanity Vol. 43\">recently discovered<\/a> this requirement after a 16-year-old in his district was denied a driver\u2019s license for refusing to wear a mask or shield during her driver\u2019s test.<\/p>\n<p>Davis called the Secretary of State\u2019s Office and confirmed the policy exists. However, when he requested the written policy, he was told it was unavailable because it\u2019s an internal policy. Davis, a member of the Illinois Freedom Caucus, is now asking the head of the agency, Alexi Giannoulias, to remove the mask requirement at driver facilities throughout the state.<\/p>\n<h3>Excessive and Dangerous?<\/h3>\n<p>The Illinois Freedom Caucus argues that requiring drivers to wear masks during a driving test is excessive and dangerous. They point out that few, if any, drivers will be wearing masks when they are behind the wheel of a car. Young drivers, in particular, have not worn masks during practice sessions, and it is not fair to require them to wear one when they have never had to wear one before taking the test.<\/p>\n<p>The Caucus sent a letter to Giannoulias stating, &#8220;It is one thing for a Secretary of State employee to make an individual choice to wear a mask while administering a driving test, but it is quite another to require the person taking the test to wear a mask, especially when there is no justifiable reason to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Protocol or Insanity?<\/h3>\n<p>The Secretary of State\u2019s Office issued a statement saying the policy would remain in place until May 11. They claim that throughout the pandemic, they have implemented protocols to protect the health and safety of employees and residents of Illinois. However, Davis questions why the Secretary of State\u2019s Office is implementing their own health criteria when they are not a health agency. He calls it &#8220;pure insanity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>What Do You Think?<\/h3>\n<p>Do you think the mask requirement for driver\u2019s tests is excessive and dangerous, or is it a necessary protocol to protect the health and safety of employees and residents of Illinois? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>driver&#8217;s license because they showed up to their test without a mask. Despite the statewide mask mandate being lifted over a year ago, it seems that the Illinois Secretary of State&#8217;s Office is still holding onto the face covering rule for driver&#8217;s tests. This came as a surprise to State Rep. Jed Davis, R-Newark, who only found out about it after a 16-year-old in his district was turned away from their test for not wearing a mask. It just goes to show that even when we think we know all the rules, there can still be surprises waiting for us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1922170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6857,6362,9508,6413,5527,4575,12298],"class_list":["post-1922169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-driver","tag-dropped","tag-hasnt","tag-illinois","tag-mandate","tag-mask","tag-tests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922169","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=1922169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}