While health officials agree face masks help prevent the spread of Covid-19, 주 및 지방 정부는 마스크 규칙의 구현에 대해 광범위하게 다양했습니다.. 지금, 조 바이든 당선자는.
Biden’s office has released plans that his administration intends to implement in the beginning of his term, and one is a national mask mandate “by working with governors and mayors.”
Most states already have some type of mask mandate, but some have no statewide rule — either leaving it as a recommendation or giving the authority to local officials.
Here are the states with no statewide mask requirement.
알래스카
Alaska does not require the use of masks, limit group size or business operations. All the state does is encourage Alaskans to do their part to limit the spread of Covid-19, recommending that residents practice social distancing and wear a mask, without any mandate.
The mayor of Anchorage, 알래스카, 그러나, has signed an order requiring people to wear face coverings in public.
애리조나
정부. 더그 뒤시, 공화당 원, allows individual counties to mandate a mask, but does not have a statewide initiative. Scottsdale was the first to make masks mandatory starting June 19. Other major municipalities with requirements include Phoenix, Tucson and Flagstaff.
플로리다
There is no statewide mask requirement, yet some local municipalities have their own mandates.
그루지야
Statewide, masks are required for some essential employees, including restaurants and personal care services employees.
그 동안에, several counties and cities have mask mandates.
아이다 호
The state does not have a statewide requirement, but several local municipalities do, including Boise.
아이오와
The state does not have a statewide requirement, but several local municipalities do.
미시시피
9 월 4, 정부. Tate Reeves, 공화당 원, lifted the state face covering requirement.
Just over a month later and amid rising case numbers, Reeves signed an executive order requiring face coverings in counties with higher Covid-19 case numbers. But that order expires on Wednesday.
미주리
The state does not have a statewide requirement, but several local municipalities do.
네브라스카
There is no statewide mandate, but clients and staff in barbershops, salons, tattoo parlors 과 massage parlors must wear masks, as part of the current Directed Health Measure requirements.
노스 다코타
오클라호마
The city council in Oklahoma City voted in a special meeting in July to approve an emergency public safety ordinance requiring face coverings in indoor public places throughout Oklahoma City.
사우스 캐롤라이나
Several counties and cities, including Charleston and Columbia, have mask mandates.
South Dakota
정부. Kristi Noem, 공화당 원, has taken a hands-off approach to Covid-19. 10 월, she wrote in an op-ed that the government should not mandate a mask requirement.
“As I’ve said before, if folks want to wear a mask, they should be free to do so,” 그녀가 적었다. “비슷하게, those who don’t want to wear a mask shouldn’t be shamed into wearing one.”
South Dakota is second — only to North Dakota — in the number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 사람들.
테네시
Though there is no statewide mandate, 정부. Bill Lee, 공화당 원, signed an executive order granting the mayors in 89 counties the authority to issue mask requirements.
와이오밍
Though there is no statewide mandate, Laramie County, home to the capital city Cheyenne, has a mask requirement that went into effect on November 1. 하나, 따라 to CNN affiliate KGWN, the county’s district attorney’s office has said violations of the mandate will not be prosecuted.
Masks are not a political statement, Biden says
In a speech Monday, Biden implored Americans to stop politicizing masks and social distancing.
“Please, I implore you, 마스크를 쓰다,” the President-elect said. “Do it for yourself, do it for your neighbor. A mask is not a political statement but it is a way to start pulling the country together.”
캠페인 중, Biden spoke of his plan to issue a nationwide mask mandate. Doing so could be challenged in court, 그러나, and in October Biden said he would go to every governor and urge them to issue mask mandates.
“And if they refuse, I’ll go to the mayors and county executives and get local masking requirements in place nationwide,” 그는 말했다.
Because the virus is mainly airborne, face masks are the most effective way to stop person-to-person spread of Covid-19, studies have shown.
“Wearing of face masks in public corresponds to the most effective means to prevent interhuman transmission, and this inexpensive practice, in conjunction with simultaneous social distancing, 건강 격리, and contact tracing, represents the most likely fighting opportunity to stop the Covid-19 pandemic, prior to the development of a vaccine,” researchers in Texas and California wrote back in June.
