States and Companies Won’t Commit to CDC Guidelines Granting More Freedom
District of Columbia, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Virginia | May 14, 2021
While it’s encouraging that the CDC caught up with the science enough to acknowledge that “if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected,” and thus has relaxed mask mandates.
That being said, Reagan acknowledged in her reporting that “Fully vaccinated individuals are still required to abide by local, state, and federal mask-wearing mandates.”
Of course, but if you still wear a mask after you’ve been fully vaccinated, that really should be your only reason for doing so.
It’s frustrating, then, that Thursday night’s most recent live update from the New York Times’ reporting on the CDC’s announcement would be that “C.D.C. Guidance Prompts Caution in Some States.” From the NYT reporting, with added emphasis:
On Thursday, the governors of Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Virginia, and the mayors of New York City and Washington, D.C., all Democrats, said they were taking the new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under advisement before adopting it. In deference to local authorities, the C.D.C. said vaccinated people must continue to abide by existing state, local, or tribal laws and regulations, and follow local rules for businesses and workplaces…
(Excerpts from Townhall)