{"id":2019628,"date":"2023-09-01T16:50:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-governor-latest-to-vow-state-will-not-impose-restrictions-for-covid-outbreaks\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T16:51:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T20:51:22","slug":"arkansas-governor-latest-to-vow-state-will-not-impose-restrictions-for-covid-outbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-governor-latest-to-vow-state-will-not-impose-restrictions-for-covid-outbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Arkansas Governor pledges no COVID restrictions for outbreaks."},"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\">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%2Farkansas-governor-latest-to-vow-state-will-not-impose-restrictions-for-covid-outbreaks%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=2019628&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 data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Republican Arkansas Governor Vows \u200bNo More COVID Restrictions<\/h2>\n<p>Republican Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders has vowed that her state will not participate if another round \u2063of federal COVID restrictions is imposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCOVID lockdowns killed businesses, tore apart communities, and stunted our kids\u2019 education. And \u2062now they&#8217;re talking about doing it again.\u2063 So let me be clear: as long as I am \u2063governor, Arkansas\u200c will never lock\u2062 down,\u201d Ms. Huckabee \u200bSanders said while speaking in a video statement \u200dthat was posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cWe will not close our schools, our churches, or our businesses. We will never make you or your children wear a mask. And we will never ever have a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freedom, not government \u2064control, should guide how individuals respond, she explained.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/health\/several-major-hospital-systems-wont-require-covid-masks-5484945\">Several Major Hospital Systems Won&#8217;t Require COVID Masks<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/1\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/never-going-back-governor-refuses-to-implement-covid-mask-mandates-5482736\">&#8216;Never Going Back&#8217;: Governor Refuses to Implement COVID Mask Mandates<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cGovernment should \u2062never\u200b loom larger\u200c than individual liberty in our\u2063 lives. That&#8217;s the principle our \u2063nation was founded on. And if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/better-than-expected-u-s-economy-added-638000-jobs-in-october-unemployment-dropped-to-6-9\/\" title=\"Better Than Expected: U.S. Economy Added 638,000 Jobs in October, Unemployment Dropped to 6.9%\">federal government<\/a> ever \u2062comes to tell \u200cus to shut down again, my administration \u2064will fight to keep Arkansas free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms.\u2062 Huckabee Sanders is \u200cone of the latest governors to make a statement of the stance of state \u200bleadership.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Republican Gov. Greg \u200bAbbott posted a similar statement on X \u200con Aug. 24, \u201cThere will be NO mask mandates in Texas.\u201d In fact, there is a new law that went into effect\u2062 Sept.\u200b 1, \u200d2023, which says local governments are prohibited from requiring COVID-related masks, vaccines, or business shutdowns. The law does \u2064not cover such restrictions for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arkansas-governor-latest-to-vow-state-will-not-impose-restrictions-for-covid-outbreaks\/\" title=\"Arkansas Governor pledges no COVID restrictions for outbreaks.\">private organizations including private schools<\/a>, businesses, and\u2063 hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement that her office has fielded calls from the public asking if mask\u2064 mandates were planned in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot on my watch,\u201d Ms. \u200dReynolds said. &#8220;In Iowa, government\u2063 respects the people it serves and fights to protect their rights. I rejected the mandates and lockdowns \u2063of 2020, and my position \u200bhas not changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Never Going \u2062Back<\/h2>\n<p>Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves \u200cwas another to issue a statement\u2063 this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMississippians will not and should not submit to fear again. In the early days of COVID, there was understandable uncertainty. We did not yet \u2063know\u2062 what we were facing,\u201d Mr. Reeves said in\u2064 the statement. \u201cAs the months unfolded, it became \u200dclear that there were two pandemics: a disease that was easy to spread\u200c and that was deadly for many vulnerable\u2062 people, and a pandemic of\u2062 fear stoked by \u2018the expert class\u2019 \u2063that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/never-going-back-governor-refuses-to-implement-covid-mask-mandates\/\" title=\"Governor stands firm, rejects COVID mask mandates.\">demanded total subjugation<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People have a right\u200c to make their own decisions, he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to \u200dtake extraordinary measures to protect yourself from getting sick, God bless you,\u201d\u2062 Mr. \u2062Reeves said.\u2064 \u201cThat is\u2062 your right, and you should do what you think is best. Maybe you\u2019re the smartest of all of us. But we are never going back to 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Fewer Deaths<\/h2>\n<p>COVID measures are on the lips of governors in response to several factors.\u2063 President\u200b Joe Biden last week signed a\u2064 proposal for \u200dCongress to agree to additional funding for \u2063a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-cdc-bungled-covid-19\/\" title=\"How the CDC Bungled COVID-19\">coronavirus vaccine booster shot<\/a>. Some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/limbaugh-the-tyrannical-lefts-sinister-conspiracy-to-silence-conservatives\/\" title=\"LIMBAUGH: The Tyrannical Left\u2019s Sinister Conspiracy To Silence Conservatives\">private entities<\/a> are reinstating mask \u2063rules. And COVID cases are on what has become a seasonal\u200b rise.<\/p>\n<p>COVID hospital<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>not comply with any future federal COVID restrictions. We have witnessed the devastating consequences of lockdowns, including the loss of businesses, fractured communities, and hindered education for our children. I am determined to protect the well-being and freedom of the people of Arkansas during these challenging times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2019629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2019628","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}