“During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee empowered county mayors to create mask mandates, specifically encouraged some mayors to do so and once said mandates could have prevented an economic shutdown if they had been enacted sooner,” the Tennessean reports.
“And yet, Lee signed legislation into law on Friday almost entirely outlawing mask mandates.”


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