Kentucky’s experience with coronavirus continues to take a toll across the Commonwealth. During Wednesday night’s briefing Governor Beshear announced six additional deaths, bringing the overall total to 400 since the pandemic struck Kentucky.
Beshear noted it’s a sobering statistic. “Let’s all acknowledge that losing 400 people to anything at any time for any reason, isn’t ok. It’s just not,” said Beshear.
The governor asked Kentuckians to commit to doing better, adding that the fight is not over yet. The total count of confirmed coronavirus cases in Kentucky has now exceeded 9000 with the 127 announced Wednesday.
Governor Beshear and State Public Health Commissioner Steven Stack spent time reiterating the importance of wearing masks in public. Beshear said wearing a mask or not wearing a mask is not a political statement. He said it’s about protecting people. Dr. Stack said attitudes about mask wearing may be different in areas of the country hit harder by the virus. “I think we forget or because we didn’t have the same magnitude of crisis we might have had because we didn’t in Kentucky what they lived through in New York City. We didn’t see the horrors that they’ve had to see in other places and I think that’s made this feel too distant and too removed from our present reality,” explained Stack.
Governor Beshear added there haven’t been cases of violence or altercations related to mask wearing in Kentucky, like in other places. But, he said there have been some instances of pressure being applied to not wear masks.
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