NC Secretary Of Health Given Governor’s Mandate Powers, Roy Cooper Starts New COVID Demands, This Time Through His Appointee

After 5 days of peaceful learning in North Carolina, at least one parent reported that in her “mask optional” charter school, strange things started happening, and she thinks it might have something to do with the upcoming municipal elections.

Key Point: Leftist Gov. Roy Cooper is making a run around the elected state legislature again, as he did during the 2020 election. The NC General Assembly are in the process of passing laws to give school board powers to decide local masking mandates, while Cooper is giving his appointee power to make executive branch decisions. Parents are noticing the connections.

” I was told there was a potential that my child was exposed at school someplace, however, the school would not be specific.  I was told my daughter was exposed- somehow- to someone who might have tested positive to COIVD and would have to be removed from school.  But I question why that has to stop my child’s day of learning?  We had one week where masks were optional in July, and then were are told that masks won’t be optional anymore after a week of escalating nonsense,” she told me.

“Last year we were told that we could claim a  medical exemption from masks without needing a form, then we all of a sudden needed a form from a medical doctor. Then masks became optional, and now Cooper comes out with Executive Order on Thursday that gives his appointee, Mindy Cohen, power to create her own mandates, and we are getting notes about massive amounts of children being sent home, and quarantined,” one local mom told me.

She is right, here it is from July 29:

Dr. Mandy Cohen was appointed to the role of Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in January 2017 by Governor Roy Cooper.

From the Executive Order:

“NOW, THEREFORE, by the authority vested in me as Governor by the Constitution and
the laws ofthe State ofNorth Carolina, IT IS ORDERED:
Section 1. Introduction.
I.I. Structure of this Executive Order.
North Carolina has made great strides since the start of the pandemic to save lives.
Nevertheless, the state is presently experiencing a surge in COVID-19 spread, principally among
those who are unvaccinated. The state’s key COVID-19 metrics suggest some measures must
remain active to address and mitigate the spread ofCOVID-19.
Section 2 of this Executive Order is intended to provide the State Health Director with
flexibility to issue any statewide standing order needed for COVID-19 testing or for administering
an authorized or approved COVID-19 vaccine. The standing order may be issued as necessary in
her medical judgment to allow individuals who meet NCDHHS criteria for testing to access and
undergo testing for COVID-19 or receive a COVID-19 vaccine. Section 2 ofthis Executive Order
also promotes COVID-19 testing and vaccine administration by preempting local regulations that
may prevent such activity. “

“On Monday we got a note about a potential positive test result in one child saying quarantine was optional, and then I suspect parents got their kids tested giving them more possible postivies, and by Thursday there was mandatory quarantine because of students possibly being near a child who was a possible positive,” The North Carolina Mom told me.

“Bottomline-I think it is about the September municipal election in this area. This way Cooper will get to change all the voting laws again and we have the same story, as the November elections.  I say it is the same book, second chapter,” she told me. She is right, and she is not alone.

Remember Cooper was already called to task for his tactics and schemes, but he doesn’t seem to be able to stop from doing it again.

CHAPTER ONE:  BUSTED FOR ELECTION SCHEME

Restraining Order: Democrat Gov Cooper and AG Stein get Eviscerated by Fed Judge over ‘Election Scheme’

SAME BOOK, CHAPTER TWO? ELECTION SCHEME?

Even though Cary NC and Raleigh NC have curiously postponed their municipal elections, surrounding areas have decided to hold their elections.  That is what has some parents curious about the timing of the latest COVID fears. The mask fears are at the center.

In a letter to parents, school leaders said if the mask mandate policy had been in place last week, the number of people required to quarantine would only have been the 8 who tested positive instead of almost 100.

— Joe Bruno (@JoeBrunoWSOC9) August 2, 2021

It appears to some parents that at the time he saw political canvassers out from Conservatives groups, far-left radical Governor Roy Cooper signed a new Executive Order with his emergency powers giving Mindy Cohen her own special powers to mandate her dreams of controlling NC Schools using the pandemic as cover.

The state legislators have a bill, Free The Smiles,  which gives NC school boards the power to determine masking mandates, and that is where the schools are now pushing back. The bill passed the House and is waiting in the Senate, as Cooper and Cohen make their play.

Numerous schools have passed resolutions to make masks optional, which is why some speculate that Cooper is not happy with the loss of his power and dominance. With many other schools meeting to discuss their options for masking children, there is a quiet rage brewing in the state.

“My 100% healthy child has to quarantine with hundreds of others because she sat next to a kid who had it. She’s negative but still out for 15 days. Ridiculous child & parent abuse. My niece was even wearing a mask and the kid that got Covid was vaxed!” one North Carolina father told me.

Area parents are complaining about how the schools are forcibly quarantining healthy children for possibly being in the area of possibly COVID positive children.

Local News WRAL reported on Thursday, “With the Delta variant and a surge of new cases, some healthcare employees say they feel like they’re going back into battle again. The CDC says they could recommend masks for the fully vaccinated indoors.”

Local activists from Open-NC. have a rally on Tuesday to show support of the bill that could change everything.

The Lie has to end, n muzzling our children has to stop, we need to think of it as what it is.. CHILD ABUSE N NEGLECT. Please share and show up NC#tableproject #ncschoolchoice #unaltered1776 #NorthCarolina #NC #apex #apexnc #cary #hollysprings #morrisville #raleigh #fuquay pic.twitter.com/0AZ8yLbUrj

— Jax Myers (@Unaltered1776) July 29, 2021

Further Reading:

Bongino interviews Jax Myers, NC activist leader for Free The Smiles

Scoop! Dan Bongino Met Tattoo Artist In Apex NC For 2nd Update On His Activism

Kari Donovan

Kari is an ex-Community Organizer who writes about Voter Engagement, Cultural Marxism and Campaigns. She has been a grassroots volunteer with the GOP, on and off for 18 years. She is a Homeschool Mom in North Carolina and loves Photojournalism and Citizen Journalism. @Saorsa1776