Posted on 03/22/2022 8:33:37 AM PDT by lightman
Children under 5 in New York City will not have to wear masks in schools and daycares starting on April 4, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.
“We want to see our babies’ faces,” Adams told reporters at City Hall in the borough of Manhattan.
The Democrat had kept the mandate in place for young children even as he recently rolled back masking requirements for other kids.
Children under 5 are the only population in America who cannot receive a COVID-19 vaccine but are also among the least likely to contract symptomatic cases or severe cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus. Additionally, vaccines have proven increasingly ineffective at preventing contraction or transmission of the virus.
Further, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations have plunged across the United States in recent weeks after a peak in January driven by the Omicron virus variant.
The seven-day average of confirmed and probable cases hit 43,772 in the city on Jan. 4. It was at just 735 on March 18. The same average for hospitalizations was at 14, down from a peak of 1,020 in January.
The trajectory is positive but there is a chance the mask mandate will remain in place, Adams told reporters.
“If the numbers continue to show a low level of risk, masks will be optional, for 2 to 4 years old students in schools and in daycare,” he said. “If we have to pivot and shift and come back here in a week and say we’re going to do something different, we’re going to do that.”
The revised policy is slated to take effect on March 4.
Health officials said they’re keeping tabs on an Omicron subvariant called BA.2, which emerging data indicate is more transmissible than Omicron but does not cause more severe disease.
“Right now, overall risk remains low, overall cases in children remain low, hospitalizations in children remain low, which is giving us comfort to make this decision at this point,” Dr. Ashwin Vasan, the new New York City health commissioner, said.
Some parents have become increasingly frustrated with the continued imposition of forced masking on children, asserting a lack of data to support masks as a mitigation measure during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially after New York state officials rolled back masking requirements for children on March 2.
On the other hand, some experts say the data on masks are sufficient to require them to help prevent COVID-19 cases.
Adams inherited mandates from his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, and has slowly rolled back most of them.
However, he’s keeping in place vaccine mandates for private sector and city workers.
LOL....because .... of .... $cience.
What tools these FRAUDci hacks are.
These people are soooooo stupid
Classic.
“We want to see our babies faces.’
What WE want. Adults seeing babies as their possessions. Zero awareness regarding what’s best, crucial for the babies.
Low IQ Eric
I guess they figure the kids ahve been sufficiently mentally scarred for life now, so the masks can come off now.
Well, the NYC voters seem to lap this low IQ nonsense right up, sadly.
But hold on a second. Fauci the fraud has declared that more mandates will soon be needed, so,hochul will likely either reconsider or keep.the kids on a very short leash and reinstate it the second fauci the fraud demands more,mandates for snifflecron
Fall elections coming.
They deserve all of it. In spades.
The Polling must be REALLY bad!
All the poor living in slums getting their measly cola,raises onmtheir welfare checks thinking the govenrment has their best interest in mind can’t jnderstand why they remain in poverty while,
Oliticians keep getting wealthier and wealthier. They blame it on Republicans no doubt becauee the left have brainwashed the poor to blame everythingmon republicans cespite clear evidence that the left is causing the poverty by enabling laziness by giving them just enough to get by on for nothing.
Why doesn’t this fool keep the mandates forever?
Most sane people have or will move to Florida or other red states.
Along with other body parts.
(don't blame me, these people are sick)
apparently the political science changed ...
It appears he is keeping the vax mandate for private-sector workers forever - and most of them still haven’t returned to that dump.
He is only the mayor because no normals wanted the job; whatever FReepers say about rising rents in NYC, the place is screwed. The decline never stopped, just paused temporarily under Giuliani/Bloomberg, and now it has resumed with even greater speed. The city will be filled with people, but far fewer of them will be Americans or taxpayers; it is an immigrant resettlement camp.
Delta Airlines sent me an ad the other day suggesting a NYC vacation was a great idea right now! I just laughed and deleted it.
Exactly! Every time masks get ended somewhere, it’s some far off date.
Agreed, but thank goodness he is doing it at all.
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