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The HHS Board backed down and the mask requirement has been dropped. Thank you to the 518 of you who stayed loud until they finally blinked. Keep watching the board meetings to ensure this decision holds.

September 15, 2021

NO to New Hanover County Mask Requirement

NO to New Hanover County Mask Requirement

🏆 Won — 518 supporters Verified

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Started by A Concerned Citizen 5 years ago

We, the undersigned, have read the proposed health rule from the New Hanover County Health & Human Services (HHS) Board “requiring masks in all indoor public places in the county regardless of vaccination status, including offices, businesses, public transportation, and anywhere the public may assemble.”

We do not agree with, nor will comply with this proposed rule. This rule is a violation of individual choice. The citizens, patrons, and visitors of New Hanover County should be able to choose for themselves proper measures for their health and safety.

We also publicly oppose the issue of the Order of Abatement requiring masks for all indoor public places.

It is an infringement of constitutional rights for government to inflict penalties on businesses if they choose not to comply with these rules.

Let our voices be heard. We do not agree with nor will comply with these proposed rules.

Updates

August 31, 2021

We just hit 500 signatures. Post this link on Facebook and tag your local commissioners right now to let them know we are not backing down.

Reached 500 supporters

August 29, 2021

August 19, 2021

The Health and Human Services Board is ignoring our concerns but your signatures are forcing them to pay attention. Send this link to your county commissioners today and demand they reject the mask mandate at the next meeting.

Reached 100 supporters

August 17, 2021

August 14, 2021

We are approaching one hundred signatures but we need to push harder to get the board's attention. Post the link on your Facebook page right now and text three friends who live in the county. We need to keep this momentum going until they hear our message.

189 Comments

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Josh McQuality
5 years ago Featured

Let people and businesses decide what is best for them. We aren’t a major metropolitan area and don’t have the crowded public transportation that major cities have. How about encouraging building up our immune systems, vitamins, exercise and eating healthy. You know, things that actually work

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Anonymous
5 years ago Featured

I’ve had a severe case of Covid, got vaccinated 3 months after and can’t breathe with a mask on. Heck, I get winded without a mask. Now I’m back to being a prisoner in my home. What was the point of the vaccine and it’s unknown long term effects? We were told “get the vaccine so you don’t have to mask up again”

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Mary Rizzo
5 years ago Featured

It didn't work before, it won't work now. There are, however, documented detrimental effects of masks that are both physical and emotional. Mask wearing should be a choice for those who feel they need to wear one, whatever their reason.

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Jackie Beasley
5 years ago Featured

Masks all day is NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN!!!!! I have a 5 year old grandson going to kindergarten, I'm afraid for him!! It's been proven masks do not stop the particles from being inhaled! NO MASKS AT SCHOOL!!!

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Kati Naef
5 years ago Featured

Government for the people, by the people and the PEOPLE SAY 'NO'. No more mask mandates. No more rules for individuals or businesses that will harm the well-being and economy of our community.

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Tracy Mitchell
5 years ago Featured

We will not give in to this heavy handed, unAmerican “decree.” Businesses have a choice - entertain this endeavor and lose financial support (business) or take a stand, have a backbone and continue to thrive. Lines have been drawn.

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JOHN PLAMONDON
4 years ago

MASKS ARE A WASTE OF TIME: MOST MASKS TODAY ARE USELESS. THEY ARE NOWHERE THE COVERAGE NEEDED TO HELP IN ANY WAY. JRPLAMONDON

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Patrick Pittman
5 years ago

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. -Thomas Jefferson (part of the declaration of independence)