During an update Monday, Gov. Andy Beshear reminded Kentuckians that nearly three-fourths of residents support requiring people to wear a mask in public places and asserted the "broken system of social media" allows small groups to look like majorities.
"The worst thing during this is that when one symptom starts to subside, I would develop two different ones. It is almost like someone is controlling them and taking turns turning them up and down as a sick joke." — Grayson County Sheriff Norman Chaffins
Some employees of the station’s parent company, Paxton Media Group, say that policy discourages them from getting a test. Paxton also owns several newspapers in the region, including the Kentucky New Era.
"Everyone should wear a mask. People who say 'I don't believe masks work' are ignoring scientific evidence. It's not a belief system. It's like saying, 'I don't believe in gravity.'" — Dr. Dean Blumberg, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at the University of California-Davis Children's Hospital