Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

Amid chatter about the possible return of COVID-19 mask mandates, at least one governor said that they will not return to his state under any circumstances.

"Mississippians will not and should not submit to fear again," Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, said in a recent statement.

"In the early days of COVID, there was understandable uncertainty. We did not yet know what we were facing. As the months unfolded, it became clear that there were two pandemics. A disease that was easy to spread and that was deadly for many vulnerable people, and a pandemic of fear stoked by 'the expert class' that demanded total subjugation."