At Tuesday’s meeting, Anchorage Assemblyman Chris Constant described his recent vacation adventure [without a mask – ed.] to Las Vegas, where he said face masks are the norm and the Covid case counts are zero. No one complains about masks and everyone wears them when indoors, he said. …

Constant was fudging the numbers.

Constant was trying to bolster his case for voting in favor of AO 2021-91, the compulsory mask mandate for Anchorage, which is currently on the agenda for a special meeting on Wednesday.

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