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.”
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.
BTW, it’s not just Cuomo.
Our legislature isn’t putting a stop to this, is it...