Posted on 05/17/2021 9:17:15 PM PDT by conservative98
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) defended keeping the state’s indoor mask mandate in place for fully vaccinated people by stating that he’s not “necessarily” going against CDC guidance, rather “We’re just not ready yet.”
Host Jake Tapper asked, “[W]hy did you decide to go against the CDC guidance and keep the indoor mask mandates in place for fully vaccinated people?”
Murphy responded, “I wouldn’t say necessarily against it. We’re just not ready yet. We’ve been clobbered not once, but twice. We’ve lost over 26,000 people. We know the virus is more lethal indoors, and you’re asking somebody who’s at the hardware store working there or in a retail or a grocery store to make the judgment on who’s vaccinated and who’s not. We’re not there yet. We’re close. I think we’re — you know, within a matter of weeks of getting to a better place. Our density usually helps us, not in a pandemic. We want to make sure we get this right.”
Murphy added that he would “feel better about” businesses saying that people who show proof of vaccination can go in without masks and that the mask mandate is “not remotely forever and always. This is a matter of a couple of more weeks on the clock.”
Murphy further stated that he will look at various pieces of health data in order to decide when the mask mandate is lifted.
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“Just not ready” to give up power to make people wear muzzles. Got it.
Murphy should wear a mask forever. For the children.
Yeah, two more weeks... two more weeks... Yeah, that’s the ticket.
What a miserable p.o.s.
Notice how he says just give him two more weeks. Where have I heard that before?
Some will need to be (virtually) dragged back kicking and screaming, into a world that is not ruled first and foremost by the fear of what might happen.
Hoisting oneself out of bed in the morning is nothing more than a calculated risk.
You may not be ready to give up your grip on power but I’ll bet anything the people in your state are more than ready for it to be over.
26,000 x 6% = 1560
Half the number of overdose deaths for 2020.
Nice try, Murphy. A violin that size is inaudible. /s
Follow the science!!!! At least until the science says something you disagree with, right Murphy?
These blue state governors are laughing their asses off at how compliant their idiot citizens are.
They could’ve just said that anybody who doesn’t wear a mask has cooties. And if there was a huge multimedia PR campaign, with “experts” talking grimly about cooties, most people would go along with it, since Liberals’ whole worldview is based on avoiding and demonizing anyone who they perceive as having cooties.
They all loved the CDC “guidance” when it was more restrictions, but not that it is less they suddenly don;t trust the CDC.
In this case, once in diapers always in diapers.
I’m one of them. Sick of this buck toothed, grinning idiot.
oh sorry you're a loser who could only get a job that suits your narcissistic personality. you know nothing and as a dem are usually wrong and a liar to cover for your fails.
Someone over at CDC is going to get fired. They’re actually following the “science” for once and not letting politics decide the fate.
Why must New Jersey keep putting up with this lousy Batman villain for a governor?
If Phil really wants to play it that safe, he shouldn’t be allowed to drive a car. That is a calculated risk, what with all the maniacs, large trucks and deadly accidents.
nah they all vote for these leftists EVERY SINGLE CHANCE THEY GET.
A lot of bums don’t want to ever work again. Others are addicted to virtue signaling via outdoor/indoor masks ....I hope they become subjects of mass public ridicule...this could be fun!
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