{"id":2008458,"date":"2023-08-22T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-college-reinstates-covid-mask-mandates\/"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:32:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T21:32:06","slug":"atlanta-college-reinstates-covid-mask-mandates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-college-reinstates-covid-mask-mandates\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta College brings back COVID mask mandates."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fatlanta-college-reinstates-covid-mask-mandates%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=2008458&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>Atlanta College Reinstates Mask Mandate in Response to Rising Cases<\/h2>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An Atlanta college\u2063 has reinstated its mask \u2062mandate for 14 days in response to rising cases on campus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All students and employees are required to\u200d wear face \u2064masks,&#8221; \u200cMorris Brown College said Monday in an Instagram <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CwLcj0qAeWZ\/?img_index=1\">post<\/a>. \u2062In addition to wearing \u2062masks, students and staff must\u200b practice &#8220;physical distancing&#8221; and refrain from \u2063gathering in large crowds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There will be no parties or large student events the next two weeks,&#8221; the school wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Some Democrats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-tom-cotton-lefts-bureaucratic-mindset-laid-bare-when-childless-activists-undermine-parents\/\" title=\"Exclusive \u2014 Tom Cotton: Left's 'Bureaucratic Mindset' Laid Bare When Childless Activists Undermine Parents\">left-wing figures<\/a> have been unable to let \u200bgo of mask mandates since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014even in the face of evidence that they are unhelpful.<\/p>\n<p>In May, the Washington, D.C., bar <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/dc-to-lift-bar-exams-mask-mandate-after-free-beacon-report\/\">planned<\/a> to require law school graduates to wear masks while taking its 12-hour-long exam.\u200b It reversed course the day after the <em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em> publicized its officials&#8217; \u200dintentions.<\/p>\n<p>During a \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-house-dem-says-2-year-olds-should-have-been-required-to-wear-masks\/\">speech<\/a> on the House floor in June, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) said \u2063that &#8220;two-year-olds should have been required to wear masks.&#8221; Earlier this month, Kavita Patel, a former Obama administration official, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/watch-msnbc-doctor-says-its-time-to-start-wearing-covid-face-masks-again\/\">said<\/a> of masks that it is\u200d &#8220;time to bring them out again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mask-wearing by the general public &#8220;probably makes little or no difference&#8221; in the spread of the coronavirus, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks\/\">study<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/atlanta-college-reinstates-covid-mask-mandates\/\" title=\"Atlanta College brings back COVID mask mandates.\">78 randomized controlled trials conducted<\/a> in January by the Cochrane Library, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/this-study-could-be-scientific-nail-in-the-coffin-for-masks\/\" title=\"This Study Could Be 'Scientific Nail in the Coffin' for Masks\">world-renowned medical database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlanta&#8217;s Morris Brown College has reintroduced a 14-day mask requirement due to a surge in COVID-19 cases on campus. In an Instagram announcement, the college stated that all students and staff must wear face masks, maintain physical distance, and avoid gatherings. 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