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A week ago, several hundred members of the anti-everything crowd got together in the town of Moroni (pop. 1,536) to air grievances about vaccines and masks and government and, well, just about everything.
It was advertised as a veritable âWhoâs Whoâ of the right-wing resistance â government stand-offer Ammon Bundy, conspiracy entrepreneur Eric Moutsos, state school board bomb-thrower Natalie Cline, presidentially pardoned off-road enthusiast and state Rep. Phil Lyman.
Cox calls for kindness after anti-mask protests
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Governor Spencer J. Cox sports an I love Dr. Dunn t-shirt during a press conference Thursday to provide updates on the ongoing pandemic during the weekly briefing on COVID-19 at the Capitol, May 6, 2021. State epidemiologist Dr. Angela Dunn is leaving her statewide post to instead lead Salt Lake County s Health Department.
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SALT LAKE CITY â Governor Spencer Cox called for Utahns to show kindness in the face of COVID-19 restrictions being lifted and heated protests against pandemic health orders.
At his weekly news conference on the state s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the governor addressed ongoing protests over masks in schools. However,
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.