{"id":51636,"date":"2020-09-12T01:14:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T01:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mask-wearing-mandate-will-likely-continue-polis-says\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:56:33","slug":"mask-wearing-mandate-will-likely-continue-polis-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mask-wearing-mandate-will-likely-continue-polis-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Mask-wearing mandate will likely continue, Polis says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d33c40e0-18fa-420b-b23f-7cfad248460e&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1800\" height=\"1016\" alt=\"Gov. Jared Polis, seen Aug. 20 in Denver, said Friday he\u2019ll extend Colorado\u2019s mask-wearing mandate for at least for another 30 days.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Gov. Jared Polis, seen Aug. 20 in Denver, said Friday he\u2019ll extend Colorado\u2019s mask-wearing mandate for at least for another 30 days.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Colorado Sun file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The directive is set to expire this weekend. Polis said he\u2019ll extend the mandate, at least for another 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe masks are working,\u201d Polis said. \u201cWe want to end it as soon as we can, but what it allows is all this progress we\u2019re making. I mean, the only reason we are talking about high school football, the only reason we are talking about kids at our colleges and being open when other states stay closed, is because of the success that Coloradans have demonstrated wearing masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mandate, initially enacted in July, requires Coloradans 11 years old and older to wear a mask when in indoor public spaces. Violators face civil and criminal penalties.<\/p>\n<p>The governor said he\u2019s likely to keep renewing the mask-wearing directive until Colorado has safely figured out how to safely reopen bars and nightclubs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s really the last thing that\u2019s not happening,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we\u2019re able to successfully do that, then ending the mask requirement would be the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polis said he, too, is tired of wearing a mask and is looking forward to the day he can lift the mask-wearing mandate and the statewide burn ban and torch his face coverings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to the day the fire bans are ended and the mask requirements are ended and we can party all night long,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jared Polis, seen Aug. 20 in Denver, said Friday he\u2019ll extend Colorado\u2019s mask-wearing mandate for at least for another 30 days.The Colorado Sun file The directive is set to expire this weekend. Polis said he\u2019ll extend the mandate, at least for another 30 days. \u201cThe masks are working,\u201d Polis said. \u201cWe want to end [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-51636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87984,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51636\/revisions\/87984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51636"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=51636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}