In a report to states this week, the White House Coronavirus Task Force urged public-health officials to appeal directly to the public if state or local governments won't enforce social-distancing measures such as mask mandates, Emma Coleman reports for Route Fifty.
It's not an unfounded concern. Several states do not have mask mandates, and some communities, perhaps more often in conservative rural areas, do not enforce them.
At least one Virginia county has taken things further than simply not creating or enforcing social-distancing measures. In Campbell County, near Lynchburg, the Board of Supervisors approved a measure rejecting Gov. Ralph Northam's coronavirus restrictions, declaring the county a "First Amendment Sanctuary," Gregory Schneider reports for The Washington Post.
Conservative activists are urging local governments in the state "to pass so-called 'nullification resolutions' that attempt to follow the path scores of Virginia localities blazed a year ago when they adopted various resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries," Norman Leahy writes for The Washington Post.
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