LETTER: Masks mandated in sparsely populated Esmeralda County

Drew Kelley Goldfield

4 years ago

Vehicles make their way north on I-95 across the Esmeralda County line on Tuesday, August 11, 2 ... — Vehicles make their way north on I-95 across the Esmeralda County line on Tuesday, August 11, 2020, north of Beatty. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @Left_Eye_Images

Masking is now mandatory indoors in counties with high transmission rates. This includes Esmeralda County with its 41 cases and zero deaths. This is a poke in the eye from the governor to the residents of a county that didn’t vote for him and has no intention of voting for him in the future.