Rural Tennessee mayors feeling the squeeze as Gov. Bill Lee delegates mask rules to them

[TexasTowelie]

Two more Tennessee county mayors enacted first-time mask mandates on Friday afternoon ahead of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, citing rising COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations.

Grainger County and Claiborne County mayors are getting considerable community blowback after instituting mask mandates.

“Mayor Mike Byrd take your so called mandate and stick it. Free people live free you tyrant,” one post on the Facebook page of the Town of Bean Station in Grainger County said.

“You can not make us wear a mask. You do not tell us what to do,” a post directed at Mayor Joe Brooks in neighboring Claiborne County said. Both counties are located in rural areas of northeast Tennessee.

Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2020/11/24/rural-tennessee-county-mayors-feeling-the-squeeze-as-gov-bill-lee-leaves-mask-rules-to-them/

[rickford66]

1. I got a mandate for them.

Women must be covered from the waist up to the neck at all times in public. Think they'll obey ? If they do, they have no argument about masks. If they don't it should be interesting.

[underpants]

2. Talk about passing the buck. How stupid to go city/county to city/county

That’s really Lilly livered of the Governor.


We’re driving through Tennessee today. Should be in Tennessee for 3-4 hours. We’ll probably need to make a stop. Man, they fly in Tennessee- I go 75 and they are blowing my doors off. Morning in the Smokie Mountains though.

[peacebuzzard]

3. I have seen proud boys motorcycle gangs in Claiborne Co.

wearing Nazi style helmets and running in a pack of maybe 15.
It's a deep red county, and borders remote east KY.
There would certainly be many infractions of the mandate in Claiborne as well as the neighbor county, Grainger.