Nets Skip Dem Gov. Declaring Covid ‘Emergency Is Over’, Won’t Enforce Masks

While ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening NewsPlease see the following: NBC Nightly News spent part of their Monday newscasts touting Democratic states like California and New York reinstituting mask mandates, none of them mentioned Colorado’s Democratic governor, Jared Polis declaring “the emergency is over” and saying that he wouldn’t enforce a mask mandate; just as he wouldn’t force people to wear jackets in the winter.

Polis’s comments were made to Colorado Public RadioOn Friday, the water had just boiled up. Attention to the nationMonday. And his argument was simple: it was people’s own responsibility to protect themselves from Covid and it wasn’t the government’s job to babysit them.

“You know, public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that’s just not their job,” he said. He warned, however, that forcing permanent masking mandates might be dangerous. “Public health [officials]I would recommend that you always wear a mask to reduce flu symptoms and prevent from getting it again. [other airborne illnesses],” he told interviewer Ryan Warner.

He compared telling people to wear masks at this point was like telling them to wear a jacket in the cold of winter:

This is not something that you need; people don’t know what to wear. It’s not your job to tell someone to put on a jacket for winter walks. [wear it]. They are responsible for frostbite.

“If you haven’t been vaccinated, that’s your choice. It’s a right I have to respect. But it’s your fault when you’re in the hospital with COVID,” he added.

With Polis’s decision to bolster their arguments, the New York PostEditorial Board I have penned an articleMonday night, Kathy Hochul of New York called on the Governor to follow her lead.

“Spot on. Pols need to let people make their own COVID decisions, right or wrong — especially since the unvaxxed are no longer much of a health threat to the rest of us,” they wrote. “Alas, Dems like Hochul just can’t resist socking the public with new restrictions, even when much of the population (80 percent in New York) has been vaccinated and more are naturally immune thanks to past infection.”

Concluding: “The gov should take a tip from her Colorado colleague: The emergency is over. It’s time to move on. Stop ordering extreme measures that do no real good — other than letting you claim you’re ‘leading.’”

But that’s not the narrative the liberal networks want. They require people to be scared.

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