NY Governor Kathy Hochul last week announced a new mask mandate, but it is up to local health departments to enforce it, and some Republican county executives say they absolutely will not.
Hochul on Friday announced that she is requiring masks to be worn in all indoor spaces where proof of vaccination is not required, citing New York’s rising Covid-19 caseload as the impetus for her decision.
Violations of the new mandate is subject to civil and criminal penalties, including a maximum fine of $1,000 for each violation.
One of those Republicans is Rockland County Executive Ed Day, who said the governor’s staff wasn’t even able to provide him with detailed information about the new requirement.
“My decision would be to move the people from the health department who are vaccinating children and others right now with a life-saving vaccine, move them to go walk around to different places to figure out whether people are masking up or not. That would be utterly reckless on my part and I will not do that,” Day said.
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Nassau County Executive-elect Bruce Blakeman called the new mandate a “shotgun approach,” noting that his country is 97% vaccinated.
“It is clear that Nassau County is not in crisis and State government should paint us with the same broad brush as the rest of the State,” he said. “I’m hopeful that the State will allow local determination rather than a shotgun approach.”
Other counties, including Madison, Niagara, and Rensselaer are also not enforcing the mandate.
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good for them. Is the governor beginning to show her true colors ?
Ahhhh! Omicron is going to kill us all!
Aside from the theatricals of masking obsessions, to say about the c19 shot that it is overrated is also not saying enough. At least Ed Day sees through some of the hucksterism of the pharmaceutical industry regarding these imbecilic masks, than he has with vaccination in general, and certainly regarding the c19 shot.
He was also a pea-brained fanatic to run to support the NYS repeal of the vaccination exemption, claiming that BigPharma’s measles shot is a non-harmful and effective way to fight off this essentially innocuous children’s illness. Parents used to hold neighborhood parties when measles would break out, inviting others from around the area to get infected at the same time.
Wearing a mask is no big deal especially around chazeirim who sneeze without covering their pisk. It’s the phony covid “vaccine” that is the problem. It doesn’t protect you from getting covid and it doesn’t prevent you from spreading covid but it will weaken your immune system and it may cause other damage(s) to your heart and other organs. Think about this………If the virus is spreading from country to country, that means that the vaccinated people are spreading it because they’re the only ones who can fly!
YWN-“Right is Wrong, Wrong is Right!”.
Jews with any common sense-Crickets.
Each rosho wants to show they can outdo the one before them.
Cant someone make a shidduch between Yokel-Hochul and Cuomo YMS?
maintaining SD seems to work quickly when there is a spike.
Austria’s (right-wing) government had an outbreak with cases growing linearly from Oct 28 (400 per mln) to Nov 22 (1600). They announced lockdown starting Nov 22 and cases immediately went down linearly to 500 as of Dec 10. Deaths continued rising until Dec 7 (15 days later, 6 per million daily) and now started going down. Austria also doing vaccine mandates and vaccination rates started going up Nov 1 reached 1% of population per day (0.1-0.2% getting first dose, similar to US)
NY (and most of US North) has a slightly milder spike spike: 250 /mln cases on Nov 1 to 700/mln on Dec 1, deaths up: 0.2 per mln in August; 2 per mln in Nov; 4 per mln in Dec.
This exemption is only for those who voted Republican, for Ed Day. All those who followed the selfless askonim and voted for the Democrat, should please wear a mask and self knass if they forget.
You do know there are more letters in the Greek alphabet remaining to name new variants right?
The unelected privileged WHITE female, Kathy Hochul, is only trying to curry favor with the hard left
Delta Omicron = Media Control
Hochul is just an attention seeking puppet. Nobody even knew this machsheifa existed till Cuomo stepped down. Now she’s trying to make some indiscernible noise. Only to those ears who are eager to listen. The rest can stuff your ears with pods.