{"id":2008218,"date":"2023-08-22T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-college-has-zero-cases-of-covid-theyre-bringing-the-mask-mandate-back-anyway\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T18:42:41","slug":"georgia-college-has-zero-cases-of-covid-theyre-bringing-the-mask-mandate-back-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-college-has-zero-cases-of-covid-theyre-bringing-the-mask-mandate-back-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite having no COVID cases, Georgia College is reinstating the mask mandate."},"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\">24<\/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%2Fgeorgia-college-has-zero-cases-of-covid-theyre-bringing-the-mask-mandate-back-anyway%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=2008218&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>One Georgia college is taking no chances \u200bwith reports of \u2062a new variant \u2062of \u200cCOVID, opting to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/speaker-pelosis-new-house-rules-package-silences-the-voice-of-republican-minority\/\" title=\"Speaker Pelosi\u2019s new House rules package silences the voice of Republican minority\">bring back<\/a> a campus-wide <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">mask mandate<\/a> despite having\u2062 no reported \u2063cases at the school.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from WSBTV, Morris Brown College \u2014 located in \u2062Atlanta \u2014 \u200chas advised \u2063students, faculty,\u200c and staff that facemasks\u2062 must be worn on campus for at\u200c least the next \u200c14 days.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The\u2063 mask mandate is a precautionary \u2063move \u200bfor the\u2064 next 14 days.  \u2064  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dX1ERq61HG\">https:\/\/t.co\/dX1ERq61HG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WSB-TV (@wsbtv)\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wsbtv\/status\/1693691978276360308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The school\u2019s Instagram account also shared the contents of \u200can email\u2064 that was\u200d sent out\u200d detailing the mask requirement as \u2064well as a number of other mitigation efforts the school \u2064was going to \u2062implement as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/los-angeles-teachers-union-demands-vax-mandate-for-all-eligible-students-report\/\" title=\"Los Angeles Teachers Union Demands Vax Mandate For All Eligible Students: Report\">school year began<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF;border: 0;border-radius: 3px;margin: 1px;max-width: 540px;min-width: 326px;padding: 0;width: calc(100% - 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Following any positive tests, the school plans to initiate contact tracing as well.<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Staffers, according to the memo, are permitted to\u2064 unmask\u2063 only when they are in their offices alone.<\/p>\n<p>As reported\u2063 by several \u2064outlets, no cases have \u2064been recorded at Morris Brown College \u2062yet this\u200c semester \u2014 the\u200c mitigation efforts \u2062were implemented \u200bas a precautionary\u200c response to several positive\u2063 cases reported at the \u200bAtlanta University Center.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Brown College is not the only institution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lionsgate-film-studio-reinstates-mask-mandates-effective-immediately-until-further-notice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bringing \u200bback mask mandates<\/a>,\u200d however. Lionsgate \u200dfilm studio \u200cin Santa Monica, California, made a\u2064 similar announcement this week \u2014 \u200bbut the\u200c mandate did\u2064 not come\u200c with a two-week expiration date. The policy,\u200c which begins \u201ceffective \u2064immediately\u201d and continues \u201cuntil further notice,\u201d\u200b also comes with daily health-screening checks and contact tracing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>worn on campus, regardless of the absence of COVID cases. The decision by Morris Brown College in Atlanta comes as a precautionary measure against the new COVID variant, ensuring the safety of students, faculty, and staff. 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