WINONA, Minn. – Winona County board member Chris Meyer attended an anti-mask outside the Courthouse Tuesday but as an observer, not as a protester. She left early. Meyer has been leaning in favor of a county mandate for masking — as the Covid respikes locally. About the rally and a mask mandate, Meyer told the Winona Daily News: “I’m genuinely just concerned about people’s health and welfare, their safety,(and the safety of their families. To me it is not political, it is really just about public health.”

Meyer. Listening but unswayed