Gov. Spencer Cox sports T-shirt expressing his support for state epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn during a weekly briefing on COVID-19 at the Capitol in Salt Lake City on Thursday, May 6, 2021. State epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn is leaving her statewide post to lead Salt Lake County’s Health Department.
Leah Hogsten
Gov. Spencer Cox urged Utahns Thursday to treat each other better after a new state law lifted restrictions intended to slow the spread of COVID-19, but not the mask mandate for K-12 students that sparked a heated protest earlier this week.
“There is no right way to come out of a pandemic,” the governor said during his weekly briefing on the state’s efforts against COVID-19, held virtually from the state Capitol in Salt Lake City. “For those restrictions that still remain in place, again, please show kindness, please show some humanity and some grace.”
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Source: Granite School District
A recent Granite School Board meeting ended early after things got a little out of control when some parents in attendance started to shout over other speakers and preventing the meeting s agenda from moving forward.
The parents wanted the mask mandate to be lifted, saying forcing students, particularly young children, to wear masks is abuse. All the school board members were wearing masks.
When one guest speaker started to praise the school board s efforts to mitigate COVID-19, she was shouted down by the anti-mask crowd. No more masks! No more masks! was loudly chanted.
The school district is now looking to criminally charge the main agitators in the crowd.
The Granite School District Board of Education meeting came to an abrupt end Tuesday night in South Salt Lake after a group of attendees became agitated when a patron was not allowed to address the board.
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SALT LAKE CITY The Granite School District Board of Education s meeting came to an abrupt end Tuesday night after a group of attendees became agitated when a patron was not allowed to address the board.
When the woman rushed to the lectern, she was not permitted to speak because she had not signed up for citizen participation time, said Granite School Board President Karyn Winder.
The crowd rose to its feet in protest and one man shouted: Remember this day! Remember this day!
Others chanted: No more masks. No more masks. No more masks.
The board moved to adjourn the meeting, left the room through a back door and the building was eventually cleared. The disruption was captured on a YouTube video of the meeting.