The City council in Odessa Texas voted on Tuesday to ban the federal and state governments from enforcing any COVID-19 mandate voicing the decision should be up to residents.
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The City of Odessa's resolution was presented by City Council Member Chris Hanie, who said residents should decide for themselves whether to mask up, KOSA reported.According to Hanie, Odessa is not seeing an increase in coronavirus cases. "When they started threatening that they were gonna make mask mandates and vaccines, well how many things did you lose? We lost businesses, businesses were going under left and right, everybody was put into a position of 'We're gonna lose it' so not this time," Hanie said.
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