{"id":460043,"date":"2021-04-27T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=460043"},"modified":"2021-04-27T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T19:36:46","slug":"tennessee-republican-governor-strips-mask-mandate-authority-from-health-departments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-republican-governor-strips-mask-mandate-authority-from-health-departments\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Republican Governor Strips Mask Mandate Authority From Health Departments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ftennessee-republican-governor-strips-mask-mandate-authority-from-health-departments%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=460043&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-906.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Tennessee\u2019s local health departments will no longer have the power to enact mask mandates beginning on Wednesday, Republican Governor Bill Lee announced in a press conference Tuesday morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The governor\u2019s decision will go into effect through Executive Order 80, which contains a provision that the governor\u2019s office said will both strip the power to enact mask mandates from most health departments and \u201caddress economic and regulatory functions\u201d around the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAfter more than a year of public-led health interventions, we\u2019re in a different season. It\u2019s time to shift our focus now more toward recovery, and not restrictions,\u201d said Lee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the governor\u2019s executive order doesn\u2019t affect the six health departments that operate in Tennessee under local instead of state authority \u2014 including Davidson County, home of Nashville \u2014 Lee said that his office has spoken with officials in each of those counties and told them that the governor wants any mandates to end by May 30.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think that will be happening in cities across our state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span>Nashville Mayor John Cooper, a Democrat, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCooper4Nash\/status\/1387036655127875586?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\"><span>announced<\/span><\/a><span> separately on Tuesday that capacity limitations in the city would be lifted on May 14. The mask mandate for indoor businesses, however, would remain in place, and Cooper did not indicate when it would be lifted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.8478260869565\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">As of today, 40% of Davidson County\u2019s total population has received a vaccine. The vaccine is the best protection for your health and Nashville overall. Please encourage your family friends to get vaccinated today! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wTavpK8Fae\">https:\/\/t.co\/wTavpK8Fae<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4bb4VxOELx\">pic.twitter.com\/4bb4VxOELx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor John Cooper (@JohnCooper4Nash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCooper4Nash\/status\/1387037422094008320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Lee acknowledged that, while COVID-19 continues to affect Tennessee residents, the novel coronavirus no longer represents a threat that rises to the level of a state-wide crisis. The governor suggested that the positive developments could be attributed to Tennesseans taking personal responsibility and to the availability of new tools for fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, including vaccines.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbove all else, Tennesseans have embraced the idea of personal responsibility, and have allowed us to get in this state from a public health crisis to a managed health issue. For the first time since COVID-19, vaccine has become a reality. It has been made available to everyone who wants it in every single county of this state,\u201d said Lee.<\/p>\n<p><span>The governor, speaking to reporters in a press conference, emphasized the wide availability of COVID-19 vaccines across the state and encouraged people to get it. \u201c<\/span><span>Anyone can get a vaccine today, no appointment necessary. I got a vaccine. It\u2019s safe, it\u2019s the most effective way to manage our health, and more Tennesseans are doing that every day,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lee also said that he was pulling \u201cThe Tennessee Pledge,\u201d a set of pandemic guidelines that were issued for businesses across the state earlier in the pandemic. While those business guidelines were never mandatory, the governor said it was important to \u201cretire\u201d them to send a \u201cclear message\u201d that residents \u201cknow how to manage their own day-to-day operations without a government playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTennessee Pledge\u201d was no longer available on the state government\u2019s website as of late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee\u2019s local health departments will no longer have the power to enact mask mandates beginning on Wednesday, Republican Governor Bill Lee announced in a press conference Tuesday morning.\u00a0The governor\u2019s decision &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2276849,"comment_status":"close","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\/04\/fb_image-906.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Republican Governor Strips Mask Mandate Authority From Health Departments","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-906.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee Republican Governor Strips Mask Mandate Authority From Health Departments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460043","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=460043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2276849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}