With Covid case numbers dropping in the double digits Governor’s across several state’s have pulled back their blanket requirement that all wear masks….
The step back for some places won’t start for several weeks and most will leave the final say up to city and local officials ….
The orders for masks and mandates have been followed by most Americans , in places ordered…..
Officials will be very happy to not have to deal with those who never looked at the issue from a health point of view, but as a political one…
Several Democratic governors announced plans on Monday to roll back mask mandates for schools and indoor public spaces, citing a drop in recent coronavirus infections and highlighting how even local officials who installed sweeping safety measures early in the pandemic are now preparing to live permanently with the virus.
“This is not a declaration of victory as much as an acknowledgment that we can responsibly live with this thing,” Gov. Philip D. Murphy of New Jersey, a Democrat who imposed some of the nation’s toughest pandemic-related mandates, said on Monday. Under Mr. Murphy’s new policy, which will take effect the second week of March, students and school employees in the state will no longer be required to wear masks.
Statewide mask mandates for schools and indoor settings had been imposed in only a handful of states, according to a New York Times database. Monday’s announcements represented one of the biggest rollbacks of statewide health protocols since the pandemic began.
Shortly after the New Jersey announcement, the Democratic leaders in California, Connecticut, Delaware and Oregon separately said they would also end some mask mandates.
Connecticut will permit students and staff members to stop wearing masks in schools by no later than Feb. 28; Delaware will end mask mandates in schools by March 31. Oregon and California announced the end to mask mandates at indoor public spaces.
New York State, which had been the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, has resisted the move, for now. On Monday, Gov. Kathy Hochul said, “I’m gathering data,” and “We are trending in a very, very good direction.”….
New York will also loosen mask wearing regulations joining other state’s…..
Add Massachusetts to growing list of state’s that are moving to lifting COVID mast restrictions….
Stupid Republican of the Day
Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky questions why anyone would want Medicare for All when 70% of those who have died 9f COVID were on Medicare.
It’s gotta hurt to be that dumb right?
And people vote for these stooges?
Marjorie Taylor Greene: “Not only do we have the DC jail which is the DC gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens.”
Greene apparently confused cold Spanish soup with the Gestapo, the Nazi-era secret police in Germany.
Of course she did.
Shots for 5 year olds and under are on ‘hold’….
COVID-19 vaccinations for children under 5 hit another monthslong delay Friday as U.S. regulators abruptly put the brakes on their efforts to speed review of the shots that Pfizer is testing for youngsters.
The Food and Drug Administration, worried about the omicron variant’s toll on kids, had taken the extraordinary step of urging Pfizer to apply for OK of the extra-low dose vaccine before it’s clear if tots will need two shots or three. The agency’s plan could have allowed vaccinations to begin within weeks.
But Friday, the FDA reversed course and said it had become clear the agency needed to wait for data on how well a third shot works for the youngest age group. Pfizer said in a statement that it expected the data by early April….
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