Posted on 05/17/2021 9:37:07 PM PDT by lightman
May 17 (UPI) -- New York and California on Monday announced plans to alter their mask mandates to fall in line with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance regarding fully vaccinated people.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that on Wednesday, the state will alter its mandate to match the CDC guidance released last week, stating that people who are fully vaccinated are not required to wear masks outdoors or indoors except on transit, in healthcare facilities and other crowded areas.
"New Yorkers have worked hard over the last year to prevent the spread of COVID and keep each other safe," Cuomo said in a statement. "That work has paid off and we are ecstatic to take this next step in the reopening of our beautiful state."
Cuomo added that businesses will be authorized to continue to require masks for all, while noting the New York Department of Health "strongly recommends" masks in indoor settings where the vaccination status of individuals is unknown. RELATED WHO: COVID-19 pandemic 'long way from over' despite vaccination efforts
In conjunction with plans to remove limits on business capacities, Cuomo also announced that businesses may eliminate the space previously required to keep six feet of social distancing.
Small-scale events with 250 or fewer people indoors or 500 outdoors will also be able to apply revised mask and capacity rules but six feet of social distancing will be required between parties of attendees unless all attendees present proof of full vaccination status.
In California, officials announced the state would not alter its mask mandate until June 15, when the state plans to broadly lift its pandemic-related restrictions. RELATED Pandemic hasn't much changed Americans' trust in gov't: Survey
California's health secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly said the state wanted to give local governments, businesses and communities more time to determine how to implement the new guidelines.
"This is in no way saying that the science or direction of the CDC's guidelines is wrong. It's just giving us some extra time to have this implemented with a high degree of integrity," said Ghaly.
Multiple major U.S. retailers, such as Walmart, Costco and Starbucks, have also announced plans to no longer require fully vaccinated guests to wear masks in their establishments, where local guidelines allow.
Enjoy your 15 minutes of fame, you north end of a southbound horse!
“Smuphy” = “Smurphy”
PUI.
Newsom (Marxist-CA) would be right there with him if he weren't facing a recall.
I can help out on this one:
New Guidelines: Make sure the trash can is big enough to handle the waste, time or product. Do not litter or cause a fire hazard. There...that just saved the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of dollars that can be granted to a new green deal company. Did you think the misused money would be spent wisely by these hacks? Better a reorganization of funds for stupidity rather than expanding it. Kind of keeps them in the corral.
wy69
The Chinese Cooties have finally been able to reserve a U-Haul so that they, like very many others, can get the hell out of California ... but not until June 15th as it is necessary in this state to provide suitable notice to vacate.
California needs “more time” how to implement not wearing masks. Only California government workers could turn the simplest task into rocket science.
You can’t make this stuff up. Nuclear face palm.
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