Blog ‘You Don’t Need a Gov’t Mandate to Be a Paranoid Recluse,’ Candace Owens Says as Texas, Miss. ‘Resume FREEDOM’ By Craig Bannister | March 3, 2021 | 12:42pm EST Candace Owens (Getty Images/Zach Gibson) “You don’t need a gov’t mandate to be a paranoid recluse,” conservative commentator Candace Owens counsels “leftists crying because Texas and Mississippi have announced they will resume freedom” by abolishing mask mandates and reopening businesses. On Tuesday, Owens took to Twitter to cheer the news that the two states have ended their oppressive coronavirus restrictions, noting that Democrat-run states are free to remain communist “enslaved hell holes”: