Ricketts tells local governments they won't get federal COVID-19 money if they require masks

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3. He can always pull an Abbott

Who green-lighted the ability of local officials to issue rules requiring private businesses to enforce masks or facial covers, a couple of weeks after blocking local officials from requiring masks or facial covers.

In other words counties or cities can't enforce facial coverings but they can enforce businesses to require facial coverings. A distinction without much of a difference, the businesses get fined instead of the people.

It was a face-saving way out of his own rules after a disastrous spike in case numbers the past few days. This is very much his modus operandi.