{"id":600614,"date":"2021-07-22T17:51:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T21:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600614"},"modified":"2021-07-22T17:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T21:51:06","slug":"nevada-dems-call-for-statewide-public-mask-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nevada-dems-call-for-statewide-public-mask-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Dems Call for Statewide Public 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\">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%2Fnevada-dems-call-for-statewide-public-mask-mandate%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=600614&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 readability=\"28.9336492891\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Party chair says state &#8216;rushed a return to normalcy,&#8217; cannot &#8216;resume business as usual&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"487\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-736x487-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-scaled-e1626986269874.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-1024x678.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-768x509.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-1536x1017.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-2048x1356.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1202861075-1400x927.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/collin-anderson\/\" title=\"Posts by Collin Anderson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Collin Anderson<\/a> \u2022 July 22, 2021 5:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"67.262956901255\">\n<p><span>The Nevada Democratic Party on Thursday called for the re-implementation of a statewide mask mandate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Party chair Judith Whitmer urged leaders across the state to issue a &#8220;full public mask mandate in order to fully protect Nevadans&#8221; in a Thursday afternoon <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RalstonReports\/status\/1418282348232077321\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span>. The move came days after county officials in the Las Vegas area passed a mandate requiring all employees to wear masks while working indoors, which Whitmer deemed to be inadequate.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Though it may have seemed we were approaching the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is clear now that we rushed a return to normalcy,&#8221; Whitmer said. &#8220;We encourage the Clark County Commissioners and those in power across the state to re-implement a full public mask mandate in order to fully protect Nevadans.\u2026 Nevada&#8217;s vaccination rate must be improved before we can resume business as usual in a safe way.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The party&#8217;s position is at odds with the Centers for Disease Control. Just hours before Whitmer issued the statement, CDC director Rochelle Walensky defended the agency&#8217;s guidelines, which assert that masking is unnecessary for vaccinated individuals in most indoor settings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Our guidance has been clear since we put it out several months ago,&#8221; Walensky told reporters Thursday, adding that those who are vaccinated have &#8220;exceptional levels&#8221; of protection from the virus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Whitmer, a vocal supporter of socialist senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), took control of the party in March as part of a shake-up that saw progressives elect Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidates to all leadership positions. Days before Whitmer&#8217;s election, staffers transferred roughly $450,000 in party funds to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. They went on to resign en masse after Whitmer&#8217;s win.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus Party chair says state &#8216;rushed a return to normalcy,&#8217; cannot &#8216;resume business as usual&#8217;  Getty Images  Collin Anderson \u2022 July 22, 2021 5:40 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600614","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}