Posted on 04/02/2022 7:36:09 AM PDT by lightman
On Friday night, New York City Eric Adams (D) took to Twitter to tout a judge's decision to keep his mask mandate in place for children 2-4 years old. The decision was a stay from a previous order earlier on Friday that came from Judge Ralph Porzio, who, as NBC New York quoted him as saying, called Adams' order "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."
"Every decision we make is with our children's health and safety in mind," the mayor's tweet claimed.
NBC New York also included warnings from Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan, while still emphasizing that hospitalizations and cases are on the decline:
"Cases are definitively rising and it's gotten our attention," [Vasan] said. "They will continue to rise over the next few weeks, and it's likely that over these weeks, we will move into a different level of overall risk across the city."
Vasan said he was "recommending" people wear masks in public, indoor settings.
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The more critical metrics -- hospitalizations and deaths -- remain on the decline, and officials have said they don't expect a new severe surge linked to BA.2. That said, the city is still erring on the side of caution.
Right now, the community COVID alert level citywide is low, under the new benchmark system Adams unveiled earlier this month. It doesn't get any lower. So far, the risk level hasn't changed since the school mandate lifted on March 7, which the mayor called a 'great sign' as he declared it time to 'peel back another layer
... While BA.2 does appear to be "inherently more transmissible" than the original omicron strain, the World Health Organization has said, experts say they don't expect it to trigger a major resurgence given high vaccination rates and so many people having been recently infected with the first omicron strain.
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), New York City is still under a "low" risk of transmission for the virus.
Last month, after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) finally rescinded the statewide mask mandate in New York State, Mayor Adams shortly after announced that while children older than 5-years old, in K-12, could go without masks, those younger had to remain wearing them.
A vaccine is not yet available for the group, though young children are among the least likely to contract a serious case of the Wuhan coronavirus. Children's deaths from the virus have also been overcounted, the CDC admitted. Further, masks are likely to harm children's developments; the CDC even quietly changed their standards for childhood development.
Last month, as Madeline reported, Moderna asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve their vaccine for children under 6-years old.
And to think that last November, soon after Adams was elected, there was hope he would do away with the needless mask mandate for children, not extend it.
Alasdair Munro @apsmunro
Replying to @thatsmanderley
@NYCMayor and 3 others Wait a minute
So the ONLY group actually *required* to wear masks are the youngest children, who are at most risk of harms to their social and language development, who are lowest risk of severe illness, and who the WHO specifically advised *against* masking?
I am speechless
Who brought this case to the judge?
INSANITY! CRUELTY! And all going ACCORDING TO PLAN. HOBBLE American children.
The Left positively HATES children.
The ones not aborted are being suffocated.
I haven’t read of any studies where kids are at risk due to covid-19? Common flu is a greater threat to them.
Democrats/Groomers hate kids.
There’s no doubt about it.
WGAF. Putting your kids in NYC public schools is already child abuse.
If I am reading this correct, it was Adams and his team. It may be a legacy policy from the last fool, but a judge reversed it and Adams went to court to stay the order. Just dumb.
“Cases are definitively rising and it’s gotten our attention.
This is tyranny! This is government control of your children!
More fn rope is needed a soon
Since Democrat politicians are unable to comprehend that that they ARE the problem, voters are voting with their feet.
I want no part of it NY, NY.
So in ny, cops won’t be stopping rapists, murderers, or other violent criminals because they will be too busy arresting parents who take their 4 year child into a store unmasked
What a swell use,of resources!
Apparently,adults are free to get omicron/snifflecron from other adults, but they arent allowed to get it from children 2-4? Whi else is the law for? Because 2-4 years Olds are immune from death practically from the the virus, so,that leaves only the adults and children 5-whenever.
Is,there noone to sue on behalf of children’s mental health and deve.opment? The ,aw is absolutely unnecessary and dangerous to health
After another year of this abuse, the children will always want to wear a mask.
Can’t believe the number of adults who have succumbed to MASK DHIMMI.
Some really bad people actually enjoy hurting children. Clearly this judge is such a person … and yet he still breathes. Too bad for the toddlers.
Clearly another such person is Hizzonor Eric Adams.
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