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JD Vance Goads Dems Into Revealing True Intentions of Mask Mandates on Senate Floor

by Western Journal
September 8, 2023 at 1:07 pm
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JD Vance Goads Dems Into Revealing True Intentions of Mask Mandates on Senate Floor

NATIONAL HARBOR, MARYLAND - MARCH 02: U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center on March 2, 2023 in National Harbor, Maryland. The annual conservative conference kicks off today with former President Donald Trump addressing the event on Saturday. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance introduced his “Freedom to Breathe” act on Tues., Sept. 5, which would force Democrats to admit where they stand on wearing masks again, but when he tried to bring the issue to the floor on Thursday, he was blocked by Democratic Sen. Ed Markey.

Vance put the issue up for a unanimous consent vote on Thursday. But to scuttle Vance’s bill, Markey attacked it calling the bill a “red herring” and insisted it wasn’t about “freedom.”

Indeed, Markey made the argument that it would take power away from local governments to respond to future situations.

“This bill would undermine the ability of states, cities, the towns across this country to make decisions about what’s best for their communities,” Markey exclaimed on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

?WATCH: Led by @SenVancePress, Senate Republicans vote to PROHIBIT mask mandates in our schools and on public transportation. ?? https://t.co/C1qRBmDsOa

— Senate Republicans (@SenateGOP) September 7, 2023

This is quite a novel approach for a Democrat. After all, Democrats typically stand against laws that allow for local control and usually push policies that force top-down solutions on everyone. But, it appears that “local control” can be invoked when it is convenient to bat down a bill proposing more freedoms.

Naturally, this is the same Sen. Markey who in 2020 introduced a mask bill of his own, but it was one that would require states to implement forced masking on every American nationwide. Talk about taking away local control!

On Tuesday, Sen. Vance shot down all the claims that his bill is just Republican red meat with no substance.

Appearing on Fox News on Tuesday, he spoke about the need to end “COVID tyranny.”

“Just a week ago, Donald Trump issued a video, a very sensible video, saying ‘no more mandates, we’re not going back to the COVID tyranny of a couple of years ago,'” Vance said. “Democrats howled in protest and said ‘nobody’s trying to bring back mask mandates.”

“And yet, this week we see multiple instances confirming Trump’s thesis that you have multiple entities within our government, within the public health bureaucracy, there are local public schools in the D.C. area now re-imposing mask mandates. This is coming back unless we stop it from happening,” he continued.

“That’s why I introduced this legislation and I’m going to force the Democrats to vote on it. If they say the mask mandates are not coming back, then come to the Senate floor, vote with us, and say ‘no more mask mandates.’ Let’s make it bipartisan,” the senator added.

No more mask mandates for school kids or airline passengers. This week I’ll force a vote on my legislation to ban federal mask mandates. pic.twitter.com/HT5Fg7yai7

— J.D. Vance (@JDVance1) September 6, 2023

“We tried mask mandates once in this country. They failed to control the spread of respiratory viruses, violated basic bodily freedom, and set our fellow citizens against one another,” Vance said in his press release. “This legislation will ensure that no federal bureaucracy, no commercial airline, and no public school can impose the misguided policies of the past. Democrats say they’re not going to bring back mask mandates – we’re going to hold them to their word.”

His announcement further explained: “The Freedom to Breathe Act, which would apply through the end of 2024, would prohibit any federal official, including the President, from issuing mask mandates applying to domestic air travel, public transit systems, or primary, secondary, and post-secondary schools. The legislation would also prohibit air carriers, transit authorities, and educational institutions from refusing service to individuals who choose not to wear a mask.”

Vane is exactly right, of course. Study after study has questioned the efficacy of these masks. Some masks have even been shown to be potentially dangerous to wearers. Again, if they don’t work (and could even be dangerous), why the mandates?

Finally, if Democrats really don’t want to force mask mandates again, why should they resist voting for Vance’s bill? It would seem to be a no-brainer. Of course, we do know why they won’t. It’s because they want the power to put us all in face diapers again in the future whenever they feel the need to do so.

They simply can’t give up the power to force us to their will.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

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