The meeting had to immediately be canceled since the large crowd refused to wear masks.
The Utah County Commission had to cancel a meeting about masks after a crowd of maskless people came to protest the safety mandate for schools
On Wednesday, July 16, the Utah County Commission tried to conduct a meeting to discuss the statewideshows commission chair Tanner Ainge attempting to have a dialogue with a large group of irate people, most of whom“This is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing. We are supposed to be physically distancing, wearing masks,” Ainge said into the microphone. He was quickly met with “boo”s and shouting from the crowd.
“The mandate for the children to wear masks is baloney. We have the right to make our own choices,” Cynthia Harding, a woman living in ProvoUtah County’s Commissioner Bill Lee himself advocated for the right for Utah County citizens to choose whether or not they wear a mask when he organized an anti-mask rally in Provo, Utah. Just this week, per, he introduced a proposal that asks state health officials for “compassionate exemptions” from the mask mandate.
A pic just sent to me from inside the Utah County Commission chambers. Commissioner Bill Lee is proposing to ask
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