Eric Adams, New York City mayor made a significant announcement Friday. Children aged two-four will still be forced to wear masks in daycares or preschools.
As previously covered by RedState Senior Editor Brandon Morse, on March 19th, more than 100 parents showed up to City Hall Park demanding the Big Apple “unmask [their] children.”
Daniela Jampel, a mother of three and protestor, waxed scientific at the time.
“[The mandate]This isn’t following science. This makes a mockery out of science. This is playing us for fools.”
“New York state recognizes the science,” she pointed out. “Everywhere else in New York state — 10 miles away in Nassau County, 10 miles away in Westchester County — toddlers are allowed to take off their masks along with their older brothers and sisters.”
Evidently, Mayor Eric isn’t interested in being like the cool counties.
Therefore, he intended to seize toddlers and muddle their noses.
However, the doing was temporarily hampered by a Staten Island judge who issued an injunction which struck down his mandate that same day.
On the opposite side, a Friday appeal resulted in a ruling by an appellate court.
On Twitter, Eric heralded “children’s health”:
“Every decision we make is with our children’s health and safety in mind. Children between two and four should continue to wear their masks…come Monday.”
Every decision we make is with our children’s health and safety in mind.
For children aged 2 to 4, it is important that they continue wearing their masks at school and daycare until Monday.
— Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) April 1, 2022
In the last few years, science and safety have all been talked about seemingly endlessly.
It’s not always so consistent: There have been instances where the government called for such, but then failed to provide any evidence in support of restrictive measures.
“Science” seems to have become government’s safe word — if an institution utters it, you have to stop probing.
However The CDC published age-specific coronavirus fatality rates before a vaccine was made.
- 0-19 years: 0.00003
- 20-49 years: 0.0002
- 50-69 years: 0.005
- 70+ years: 0.054
New York City doesn’t want to show off the tiny things.
Eric made a statement to the 22nd that he had always stated:
“I have always said that the science will guide us out of the pandemic, and because we have followed the data, we are winning the fight against COVID-19. New York City is currently in a low-risk environment.”
CBS News summarizes the current chaos:
People [are] wandering around Columbus Circle masked and unmasked, but wearing a face covering will be required for the city’s youngest children come Monday.
The outlet did indicate Eric’s edict “comes after the city’s Department of Health said Friday the seven-day positivity rate was up 2.67 percent, up from 2.26 percent the week prior.”
You might call it a surge.
Via social media, Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan explained, “That’s why we’re going to wait a little while longer before making masks optional for children under five.”
Moreover, as Eric noted Friday, preschoolers aren’t old enough to get vaccinated.
As for children’s risk, cA study by onsider from January last year
‘Extremely Rare’: New Study Makes Stunning Claim Concerning In-School Transmission of the Virus https://t.co/Tcqvh4dkvj
— RedState (@RedState) January 15, 2021
And in September, Newsweek ran the headline “Unvaccinated Children Less Likely to Die of COVID Than Vaccinated Adults, Data Suggests.”
New York should be proud of its science.
It’s clearly trying:
Chief Medical Officer Calls to Black and Puerto Rican ‘Mothers,’ Department of Health Apologizes for the ‘Gendering’https://t.co/YlecoSgVar pic.twitter.com/VXG8cpH44J
— Alex Parker (@alexparker1984) April 4, 2022
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