Posted on 05/20/2021 6:13:03 PM PDT by conservative98
Kids over the age of 2 will now be required to wear face masks while at day care and day camps, according to new guidance put out by New York state.
This announcement came the same day that fully vaccinated New Yorkers were allowed to ditch their masks while indoors, causing confusion across the board.
Throughout the entire pandemic, toddlers have not been required to wear a mask, but the state said it is now following federal guidance put out earlier this month.
“We tend to follow the federal guidelines,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a press conference on Thursday. “I understand the science, and I understand the data. And that's what drove the federal government to those guidelines. I also understand it is difficult on a number of levels. It's difficult for parents with one child. Can you imagine a child care provider trying to put masks on 3- and 4-year-olds and have them keep them on all day long? So I get it. We're working with the child care providers to see if there's any way we can help."
The state Office of Children and Family Services defended the new policy, saying it is consistent with federal guidance and encouraged as much outdoor programming as possible.
“Child care programs are required to report infection data to the state weekly,” a spokesman said in a statement. “The state’s child care programs continue to report COVID cases in children even as the overall infection rate is going down. State regulators will assist child care providers with complying with the guidance.”
However, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticized the move.
(Excerpt) Read more at ny1.com ...
Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay said now that the state has lifted the mask mandate for fully vaccinated New Yorkers, this new policy seems like a step backwards.
“It would be almost impossible to be able to keep the mask on them, so it just seems like a silly rule,” Barclay said. “This is one of the reasons we want to take these emergency powers away from the governor, because we get these arbitrary mandates and directives coming down from the governor that don’t seem to make sense.”
Democratic Assemblyman John McDonald, who is also a pharmacist, wants to know more about the rationale behind the policy. He said this policy is not only hard on these kids, it also adds stress to overworked day care providers.
“The compliance is going to be horrific,” McDonald said. “I had three children. They get their hands near their mouth or nose or eyes all day long, and that mask is not staying on come hell or high water, it’s just not. So let’s be realistic about it and let’s help with the day care providers, who are still just trying to get off their knees from what the pandemic has done to them. This is going to put them in a position where they have to be the mask police.”
and daycare’s will be on the hook to enforce it, right...
A mask on a toddler could result in some form of brain damage due to reduced oxygen intake.
Someone within the bureaucracy has decided that risk is not terribly important.
This is just out of hand. This has gone too far. Toddlers, who are among the least likely to get or spread the virus, are now, after well over a year of restrictions, being required to have a mask???
DemocRATS are insane. They’re trying to out-Stasi one another!
THis is child abuse
This is child abuse.
Anyone putting their child in a day care that requires a mask is an idiot, and I don’t care what your stupid excuse.
NO!
They have no problem aborting babies at birth, what makes anybody think they care about this?
Have you ever watched a mother trying to force a screaming, crying little kid to wear a mask in a store, when the little kid has no idea why its being muzzled?
It’s heart wrenching.
“THis is child abuse”
ON STEROID.
Kids do not have many of the receptors that the virus needs to replicate.
Therefore a good percentage won’t get sick nor can they spread the disease.
This is more about the left hindering healthy socialization of children.
Where is this gonna go?
When are NYers going to stand up and start resisting this stuff? It’s insane.
Kinda funny. The people in charge will spend all day putting it back on the kids just in time for them to pull it back off. I’d love to see a video.
And what color states are the most insane?
I pray that the Most High destroy every last person that does this to a child. And come Lord Jesus— this world needs to be destroyed. Too evil.
The insanity of all of this is mind boggling. Covid will NEVER go away. It will always and forever be a part of our lives, because it’s what gives the power for others to control us. We need an uprising STAT.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.