Clay Travis & Buck Sexton explain why Philadelphia’s mask mandate may be a good sign

The circumstances round Philadelphia implementing its COVID masks mandate once more may very well be a great signal in line with the hosts of the “Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Present.”

Pennsylvania’s largest metropolis appeared to behave alone months after it and different locales initially rolled again their COVID restrictions, together with masks mandates. On Monday, host Buck Sexton famous that the Democrat officers within the icty certainly introduced again what he known as a pointless and onerous restriction. However, he recommended there’s a silver lining to the mandate instituted by Mayor James Kenney’s well being division.

“One good indicator I’ve seen is that the dominoes didn’t instantly fall proper after Philadelphia’s masks mandate [returned],” he stated.

Co-host Clay Travis added that “thus far” that’s a minimum of the case.

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Sexton agreed it could be too quickly to inform, however expressed that the actual fact no main metropolis instantly adopted swimsuit exhibits the urge for food for unilateral mandates might lastly be shedding steam.

“I feel it there’s concern about folks with the ability to cause by means of this sufficient, that after sufficient pointless struggling – which is what all of the masking within the lockdowns was – it was theatrical in its solely goal was to indicate folks ‘we’re doing one thing,’” Sexton stated.

After Philadelphia’s announcement, officers from surrounding counties ridiculed the reversal, with a spokesperson for the federal government of Bucks County – which borders town to the north – telling an area outlet it by no means has had nor intends to institute a mandate. 

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Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (NurPhoto/Getty Photographs)

At the very least one metropolis council member, Democrat Allan Domb, recommended the mandate might damage Philadelphia’s financial system:

“It’s one factor if the whole nation does it, however they aren’t. The suburbs aren’t doing it, both. This simply hurts our small companies,” he informed the Delaware Valley Journal.

A number of Philadelphia companies additionally filed a lawsuit in courtroom in search of to rescind the mandate. 

One of many attorneys concerned, Thomas King III, beforehand efficiently knocked down Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf’s statewide faculty masks mandate. 

King stated the Philadelphia emergency order “imposed a renegade normal unfound wherever on the planet” – and that it goes towards present CDC steerage.