{"id":270109,"date":"2021-06-09T02:11:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-time-to-move-on-to-unmask-ourselves-and-our-kids\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T23:11:44","slug":"its-time-to-move-on-to-unmask-ourselves-and-our-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-time-to-move-on-to-unmask-ourselves-and-our-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"#It\u2019s time to move on \u2014 to unmask ourselves and our kids"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#It\u2019s time to move on \u2014 to unmask ourselves and our kids<\/strong>”
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My fellow New Yorkers, you know<\/em> what we are doing is crazy: Unmask. It\u2019s time. It\u2019s long past the time.<\/p>\n

What happ<\/a>ened to us? How are we entering summer 2021, with many of us still masked, despite all the evidence suggesting we should stop? <\/p>\n

There was never any need to wear masks outdoors. Even Dr. Anthony Fauci admits that, yet on every street there are people, often alone, continuing to wear a mask.<\/p>\n

Some stores continue to require masking, even as nearly 70 percent of New Yorkers are vaccinated.<\/p>\n

And our kids suffer most of all, as the science<\/a>-denying teachers union and a union-captive Department of Education demand children stay masked on 90-degree days, even during recess outdoors.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a mass hysteria, and it\u2019s terrifying.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also very un-New Yorker<\/em> to act this way \u2014 to not stand up for what is right, to go along to get along. Where are my tough, uncompromising, free-thinking New Yorkers to stand up and shout, \u201cNo, I won\u2019t do this anymore\u201d?<\/p>\n

How are there not more people proclaiming loudly, \u201cI\u2019m vaccinated, and I believe in the vaccines, so I won\u2019t be wearing a mask\u201d? Or \u201ckids should have never been masked in the first place, so mine won\u2019t be wearing one\u201d?<\/p>\n

Why do I care if traumatized or virtue-signaling people continue to mask? Because it affects us all. Decisions are made for all of us, because so many people won\u2019t move on.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, I took my 8-year-old son to a birthday party in Prospect Park. It\u2019s thrilling that children\u2019s birthday parties are back. I can\u2019t wait to get sick of them again. But in our jubilation, we shouldn\u2019t accept public insanity.<\/p>\n

It was a roller-skating party. You had to wear a mask to pick up the skates. You could remove the mask to put them on. But then the mask had to be back on to actually roller skate \u2014 outdoors<\/em>. It was 93 degrees, and the masks were a disgusting, sweaty mess.<\/p>\n

Yet when it came time for cake, attendees left the spacious rink and crowded into a tight area, where we ate, sang and blew our aerosols all over each other. It just makes no sense.<\/p>\n

New Yorkers are trained in the art of spotting and avoiding scams from a young age. We know no one ever wins at three-card monte. We know never to take the \u201cfree\u201d CD from the guy in Times Square. We know the guy claiming he just needs money for a bus ticket to Rochester will still be here a year from now.<\/p>\n

Yet we continue to accept that safety lies in wearing a mask for the 3 feet to the restaurant hostess-stand but removing it for our meal. We pretend that masking while riding a bike or running makes an iota of difference. <\/p>\n

Masking has become a religion, and like most new faiths, it isn\u2019t very well thought-out \u2014 or humane.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of other tragedies, not least 9\/11, we came together with courage and cohesion. But COVID has nearly destroyed us. Now we are fearful of each other. Angry. Doing stupid things and forcing others to do them, too.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lived in New York nearly my entire life. I remember the bad \u201980s, the wild \u201990s, the sterile 2000s. We had ups and downs. We suffered and we celebrated.<\/p>\n

This is the worst New York I\u2019ve ever known. It is suspicious and divided, broken and refusing to heal. <\/p>\n

It would go a long way to see each other\u2019s faces again. To smile at each other. To not see each other as disease vectors but as fellow citizens. To acknowledge what we collectively went through, process the trauma together and move on as the greatest city in the world.<\/p>\n

We can do this. But it has to start with letting go of our security-blanket masks and acknowledging the mistakes we made. Let\u2019s get back to who we were before the virus, before bad decisions by politicians and tyrannical \u201cexperts\u201d broke us. Let\u2019s be New Yorkers again.<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a>: @Karol<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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