{"id":113356,"date":"2021-08-24T18:42:35","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=113356"},"modified":"2022-01-30T14:55:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T20:55:05","slug":"city-of-oxford-mississippi-imposes-new-mask-mandate-to-combat-covid-19-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/city-of-oxford-mississippi-imposes-new-mask-mandate-to-combat-covid-19-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Oxford, Mississippi Imposes New Mask Mandate to Combat COVID-19 Spread"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the <strong>City of Oxford<\/strong> voted to mandate masks in all indoor settings with in the city limits, as well as outdoors in large groups when social distancing isn&#8217;t possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The controversial move comes as <strong>Baptist Memorial Hospital &#8211; North Mississippi<\/strong> declared an internal disaster status Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Board committed to reviewing this mandate weekly with the hopes that we will see the pressure on our hospital lesson quickly,&#8221; said Mayor <strong>Robyn Tannehill<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are not considering closing businesses or limiting capacities,&#8221; the mayor continued. &#8220;We do not want to ever consider that again but it is going  to take some sacrifices to avoid it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the City of Oxford voted to mandate masks in all indoor settings with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":85534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346,18],"tags":[19156,19155,18080,4379,16051,16052,19154,16750,5,4],"class_list":["post-113356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-local-government","tag-said-mayor-robyn-tannehill","tag-the-board-committed-to-reviewing-this-mandate-weekly-with-the-hopes-that-we-will-see-the-pressure-on-our-hospital-lesson-quickly","tag-baptist-memorial-hospital-north-mississippi-4","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-mask-mandate","tag-masks","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-03-19-OxfordCoronaVirus.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}