Waynesville Mayor Caldwell told a newspaper that a mask mandate would be proposed. When one hundred people attended the board meeting, which contained a draft mask mandate, Caldwell back-tracked and claimed it was a big misunderstanding.
Having multiple laboratories of government, the States and cities can choose their own paths. This will provide excellent studies of mortality.
Here is Mayor Caldwell blaming the media for the Waynesville draft mask mandate,
Caldwell’s insistence that a mask mandate wasn’t on the table — despite a draft mask mandate appearing in the town board’s meeting materials — confused the large crowd who had turned out.
“You can thank your local media for that,” Caldwell said, when members of the public questioned the inconsistency. “I don’t think I should have to be apologizing for the media.”
Mayor Caldwell's flip-flop is editorialized by The Mountaineer,
In his interview, Caldwell said he was on board with the idea of a town-wide mask mandate and cited the outbreak at the town finance office as evidence of how COVID-19 can quickly spread.
Just one day — and numerous angry phone calls later — the mayor was singing a different tune, which is fine. All are entitled to change their mind. What is unconscionable, though, is pretending you never held the view in the first place and hoping people just won’t notice. That’s exactly what Caldwell did.
In front of his colleagues, the town’s professional/administrative staff and the public, he went into denial mode and blamed the local media for “blowing it out of proportion.” In this case, that’s The Mountaineer as we were the only newspaper covering the issue.
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