Thursday, April 29, 2021
McCook Gazette | Associated Press
The Oxford, Neb., school district dropped its mask mandate last month in what was a fairly straight-forward decision: Cases were down dramatically, and it didnt bother local officials that their move flouted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
Those federal mask guidelines just didnt seem to fit local conditions well in the town of about 800 people where hardly anyone wears a mask.
We havent paid a whole lot of attention to what is going on at the federal level mainly what is coming out through the state, Southern Valley Superintendent Bryce Jorgensen said. You just cant compare Chicago to Oxford, Nebraska. Things are just different.