Posted on 02/15/2022 5:38:51 AM PST by lightman
The masks are coming off in Washington, D.C. - for most anyway.
According to Mayor Muriel Bowser, beginning March 1, masks will no longer be required for indoor settings, such as restaurant and bars, gyms, entertainment venues, businesses, some government buildings, and houses of worship.
While that’s welcome news to many in the district, there are still several areas where Bowswer is keeping her mask mandate in place, including schools and childcare facilities, healthcare settings, and public transit.
The announcement comes as cases in D.C., driven largely by the Omicron variant, have dropped by more than 90 percent.
Bowser’s order differs from other Democratic leaders who in recent days have announced school mask mandates are ending, including in New Jersey, Connecticut, Nevada, Oregon, and Delaware.
Critics blasted Bowser for her "anti-science" and "shameful" insistence that schoolchildren continue to mask up, despite the extremely low risk Covid-19 poses to them.
As Sen. John Thune and Rep. Steve Scalise point out in a recent opinion piece, the United States is not in line with the WHO or Europe's position on this.
"The United States is an outlier in how it treats young people during this pandemic. The World Health Organization explicitly states that 'children aged 5 years and under should not be required to wear masks … based on the safety and overall interest of the child.' Also, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control doesn’t recommend mask-wearing for children under the age of 12," they write.
"A face mask may be one of the most debilitating learning barriers for young children," the lawmakers continue. "The early years are when kids learn to recognize facial cues, understand emotions, and speak and express themselves. Prolonged masking directly interferes with a student’s ability to learn verbal and non-verbal communication skills, which can set them back for the rest of their life."
Kevin McCarthy @GOPLeader
Forcing kids—the least likely to get seriously ill from COVID—to wear masks is disconnected from actual risk.
Why do Democrats want America to be the only advanced nation in the world that forces toddlers to wear masks all day?
7:40 PM · Feb 14, 2022
“The early years are when kids learn to recognize facial cues, understand emotions, and speak and express themselves. Prolonged masking directly interferes with a student’s ability to learn verbal and non-verbal communication skills, which can set them back for the rest of their life.”
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A masked child is an obedient adult of the the State
Today is (supposedly) the last day of mask mandates in Commiefornia. We’ll see if Newscum tries to extend it further.
Because the Mayor has more authority than you, or you don’t know how to use the authority you have.
Big surprise that a Democrat would do this. They support abortion on demand which murders babies so why worry about masks harming young kids.
Sounds about right, Schools pretend to educator kids why not make the students wear a mask that pretends to stop the virus!
This comes just a few days after DC destroyed a business, the Big Board Bar, because the owner said that he wasn’t responsible for checking his customers’ vaccine cards, the city was. They cancelled his liquor license, charged him with health code violations, and finally pulled his business license.
This was a purely political persecution.
From WUSA 9: “ Days after the city’s new laws went into effect, a WUSA9 investigation spot-checked 20 other businesses in all four quadrants of the city to find out how many of them were following the vaccine card entry mandate. Half of them did not check vaccination status in any form before allowing this reporter to enter, order and eat inside.”
Please read my tagline re mask abusers/criminals.
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