{"id":461552,"date":"2022-06-12T02:34:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T23:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/end-all-new-york-mask-mandate-madness-forever\/"},"modified":"2022-06-12T02:34:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T23:34:49","slug":"end-all-new-york-mask-mandate-madness-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/end-all-new-york-mask-mandate-madness-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"#End all New York mask mandate madness, forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 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-6a32d414834d9\" 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-6a32d414834d9\" 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\/end-all-new-york-mask-mandate-madness-forever\/#%E2%80%9CEnd_all_New_York_mask_mandate_madness_forever%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;End all New York mask mandate madness, forever&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CEnd_all_New_York_mask_mandate_madness_forever%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;End all New York mask mandate madness, forever&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/NY-mask-mandates.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Is New York\u2019s COVID mandate madness <em>finally<\/em> cooling down?<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, New York state and the MTA axed their requirements for agency employees to get tested weekly if they\u2019re unvaxxed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More crucially, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced the end \u2014 <em>finally<\/em> \u2014 of the insane, cruel and utterly anti-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> mask mandate for the city\u2019s youngest kids.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All with good reason: The data on \u201cpublic health\u201d efforts like this are unambiguous. Mandates on masks or anything else have no significant effect \u2014 good or bad \u2014 on COVID outcomes at the city or state scale. They only add onerous requirements to people\u2019s everyday life and work, empower Karens in the public and private sectors and jack up costs for taxpayers (the MTA\u2019s employee-testing program cost a cool $100 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some are even more harmful, like the toddler mask mandate. It caused behavioral and learning problems left and right.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The axing of these idiotic rules may be a sign that New York\u2019s electeds and other officials are starting to reckon more seriously with a reality already recognized by any sane person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Gov. Kathy Hochul refuses to end the public-transit mask mandate, leaving LIRR and MetroNorth commuters to envy their NJTransit peers. On the subways, meanwhile, we\u2019re seeing a steady growth in civil disobedience, which means her stubbornness is undermining the rule of law. <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll grant that Hochul and (especially) Adams haven\u2019t been as ridiculous as many in their party would like. They began unwinding restrictions at the end of last year, though Hochul seems to wait for <em>months<\/em> of clear data before admitting reality, and Adams pays far too much heed to city health czar and COVID-theater aficionado Ashwin Vasan, at whose feet can be safely be laid the absurd advice for <em>everyone<\/em> to <em>still <\/em>mask up indoors.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, they avoided returns to restrictionism (despite clickbait-for-COVID-hysterics stories in the likes of The New York Times). Schools stayed open statewide over the objections of the teachers unions; there was no resurgence of the absurd vaccine passport system that helped keep the city and state mired in COVID panic for far too long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Adams rightly put it, if every new wave makes New York \u201cmove into shutdown thoughts [and] panicking, we\u2019re not going to function as a city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all the more true since wide-scale testing has been revealed to be worse than useless: Recent survey data suggests that the city\u2019s testing regime alone missed 1.3 million cases in just the first quarter of this year. Then again, case counts haven\u2019t said much about the actual threat for a long time now, even though too many public-health authorities (and the Times) keep treating rising counts as omens of doom.<\/p>\n<p>What public health officials need to be concerned with \u2014 and <em>always<\/em> should\u2019ve been \u2014 are deaths and hospitalizations. Both have stayed low for weeks (for <em>months <\/em>in the city) and are now indisputably (even according to Vasan) trending down. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because the pandemic is <em>over.<\/em> Immunity (from vaccines and prior infection) is near-universal. The virus is mutating to become less deadly over time, as routinely h<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>ens with pandemic diseases. (It\u2019s what evolution favors since killing the host is bad for the bug, too.)<\/p>\n<p>So the state move on compulsory testing is long overdue. As is getting rid of the NYC private sector vax mandate (which already has a huge hole in it for celebrities).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We still need to hear the mayor and governor shout from the rooftops that we\u2019re never, ever going back to restrictionism.\u00a0New York can\u2019t fully heal until it\u2019s clear COVID theater is over for good.\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/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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Tuesday, New York state and the MTA axed their requirements for agency employees to get tested weekly if they\u2019re unvaxxed.\u00a0 More crucially, Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday announced the end \u2014 finally \u2014 of the insane, cruel and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/NY-mask-mandates.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[130222,1545,43,96111,66147,98806,116860,4953,3885,71041],"class_list":["post-461552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-11-22","tag-coronavirus","tag-editorial","tag-employer-mandate","tag-eric-adams","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-mask-mandates","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}