{"id":413823,"date":"2022-03-09T05:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/please-new-yorkers-just-let-the-masks-slide\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T05:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T02:22:27","slug":"please-new-yorkers-just-let-the-masks-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/please-new-yorkers-just-let-the-masks-slide\/","title":{"rendered":"#Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25dae4e0bad\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a25dae4e0bad\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/please-new-yorkers-just-let-the-masks-slide\/#%E2%80%9CPlease_New_Yorkers_just_let_the_masks_slide%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/please-new-yorkers-just-let-the-masks-slide\/#Overprotection_mistrust\" >Overprotection &amp; mistrust<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPlease_New_Yorkers_just_let_the_masks_slide%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Please, New Yorkers, just let the masks slide!&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>I live on the Upper West Side. I am a former Food and Drug Administration associate commissioner, run a not-for-profit public-health policy institute and am a visiting professor at the University of Paris Medical School. Despite my bona fides, I can\u2019t get my neighbors or dog-park acquaintances to relax and unmask themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to my world, where wearing a surgical mask has replaced wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt as a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-justice signal in post-pandemic America.<\/p>\n<p>My ZIP code is deep blue. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> is back!\u201d we rejoiced when President Biden was elected. Alas, that doesn\u2019t seem to be true when the science doesn\u2019t match what many of my friends and neighbors want to believe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite very clear guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Gov. Hochul and Mayor Adams, many of my neighbors want to keep their masks on (which is certainly their privilege), but they don\u2019t want me to take mine off either. And they\u2019re aggressive about it. Withering stares and cutting comments. The lack of respect and embrace of \u2014 what else can I call it? \u2014 \u201cfake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\u201d is disheartening.<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I are <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-vaccinated and self-test regularly. We live in a low-infection\/high-injection zone. Very green by the CDC\u2019s new standard. And yet many in my hood remain wedded to the way things were, as though removing one\u2019s mask is somehow an acknowledgment of victory for anti-science, anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers. Maybe it\u2019s a new form of PTSD. It is certainly Creeping Chicken Little-ism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Overprotection_mistrust\"><\/span>Overprotection &amp; mistrust<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But it\u2019s more than just your run-of-the-mill New York City neurosis. There\u2019s a real public-health risk brewing. If we can\u2019t support our friends and neighbors who want to take off their masks when such actions are strongly supported by science, how are we going to get them to put their masks back on should the situation call for it in the future?\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Masks2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"A person wears a mask on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.\" class=\"wp-image-21462032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Masks2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Masks2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Masks2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New Yorkers should no longer fear the spread of coronavirus, writes Peter J. Pitts.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Stephen Yang<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(This is a real possibility. Please don\u2019t shoot the messenger.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still doing my research\u201d was a lame excuse for not getting vaccinated, and it\u2019s a bad excuse for insisting we all keep our masks on.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot \u201cfollow the science\u201d when it is convenient or suits our politics or personal belief systems. That leads to bad places. Science is neither blue nor red. Alas, that is inconvenient and uncomfortable for a lot of New York and a lot of America. We need to trust the system and each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Taking off your mask isn\u2019t a victory for \u201cthe other side.\u201d It is a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2022\/03\/08\/mayor-eric-adams-celebrates-pandemic-milestone-at-jazz-club\/?_ga=2.126323341.1468608562.1646771778-1764175237.1572890003\">public-health victory<\/a> for all of us. We\u2019ve worked hard for it. We\u2019ve earned it. And our kids have earned it, too.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Beacon-High-School.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Beacon High School, 522 W 44th St., NYC., where students had their first day of school without any mask mandates since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.\" class=\"wp-image-21462042\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Beacon-High-School.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Beacon-High-School.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Beacon-High-School.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Children in New York City deserve to finally take off their masks after two chaotic school years.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Removing your mask (where <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ropriate) and explaining why you are doing so to your friends and neighbors (in a polite and nonjudgmental way), is just as important as explaining the value and urgency of getting vaccinated. It\u2019s supporting science. It\u2019s doing the right thing. It\u2019s helping us all get comfortable with reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remember reality?<\/p>\n<p><em>Peter J. Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner and member of the United States Senior Executive Service, is president of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a visiting professor at the University of Paris Medical School.<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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