You might have heard about some places in the U.S. reinstating mask mandates with COVID infections increasing again. Republican Candidate for Indiana Governor Curtis Hill is not a fan of that.
Some of those include a film company in Los Angeles, a hospital in New York State, and a liberal arts college in Atlanta.
In a news release he sent out Tuesday, Hill said he would not require people in public universities, businesses, government offices, or churches to wear face coverings.
“We learned a lot in the aftermath of the pandemic in 2020. The key takeaway is that government-imposed sanctions on our personal liberties do more harm than good,” said Hill in a Wednesday morning interview with 93 WIBC’s Kendall and Casey.
Hill is of the opinion that masks don’t provide protection from COVID-19, so it is silly to force people to wear them.
“The problem that we have is that we are witnessing a federal government that lied to us about masks along with their use and effectiveness so we have lost the trust of our institutions,” said Hill.
Back in 2020, when Hill was the Indiana Attorney General, he wrote a letter calling for a special legislative session to address Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb’s executive orders for the pandemic at the time. Holcomb had discussed the possibility of charging someone with a crime if they weren’t following the mask mandate. Holcomb later said that it was merely a suggestion.
“In a republican form of government, we do not govern by executive decree,” said Hill in the letter. “We govern by legislation, enforcement, and adjudication carried out by separately elected (and appointed) officials. The Indiana Constitution so divides government functions to prevent the concentration of power and to facilitate public debate.”
Hill is running against four other people in the Republican primary for Indiana Governor. Those are the following:
-Brad Chambers, former Indiana Secretary of Commerce
-Suzanne Crouch, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (2017–present) and former Indiana State Auditor (2014–2017)
-Eric Doden, former president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation
-U.S. Senator Mike Braun
The Democratic candidates for Governor are the following:
-Bob Kern, perennial candidate
-Jennifer McCormick, former Republican Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction (2017–2021)
Donald Rainwater is running for Governor as a Libertarian candidate. He is a software engineer, U.S. Navy veteran, and was a nominee for governor in 2020.
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We now know we were lied to about Covid. We also knew before the first mask mandates that the masks are not capable of stopping a virus The virus is simply too small to be stopped by any mask. What the mask does represent is that The People can be cowed into the Sheeple. Masks are no in the news again as we approach the 2024 election. This is not a bug but a feature for stealing an election. Any call for massive mail in voting is a signal the fix is in. Kudos for Curtis Hill in seeing the farce for what it is. He has my vote.
Well, there are masks that can do that…they look like most military gas masks, but the ones the sheep were told to wear wouldn’t work so essentially you are correct.
Curtis Hill was a tough Elkhart County prosecutor. Criminals didn’t get away with what they do in St. Joseph County.
Masks absolutely can stop the virus. Just not the cheap ones that most people prefer, not those that haven’t been fitted properly, and not even then if you wear it over your beard. And sure as hell not if you wear it under your chin.
And what people still don’t get is that they were never intended (primarily) to keep you from breathing it in. They were intended to stop people who had it from breathing it all over everyone else.