UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks.
This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
I just tried calling and it won’t even let you leave a message. It says to call back as hold times are longer than 90 minutes.
This is state sponsored genocide. I just risked my life yesterday to get necessary healthcare from unmasked health providers.
This is outrageous. She is the governor for like 600 people in the city who only see the city from the window of a town car and are on the phone with her everytime they see something that upsets them. Actively terrible on every level.
After all NY suffered in the pandemic - they want to take away one of the few individual actions a person can take to make being in public safer bc they are mad people are protesting the war in Gaza. Unfuckingbelievable.
We gotta shut New York down until we get to the bottom of this. Something is in the water or there is a gas leak or the Statue of Liberty is haunted or something.
I saw someone from Canada, who had clearly never had any real sun exposure telling us that sunscreen causes skin cancer rather than preventing them. I don’t think the data from Australia would support that.
Our culture, saturated in 400,000,000 guns and a political party promising violence and revenge feels like a powder keg.
'Democrat' Kathy Hochul's proposed response: Ban respiratory masks.
I want to just give up. But I'm far too furious.
Ah, yes. "You don't know what they're going to do if they have a mask on." Whereas without a mask, the average human can read the intentions of other people quite easily, as well as if they're carrying a weapon. This is absolute incoherent nonsense.
I can see requiring a mask for health reasons, and how some people might challenge it, but how do you ban someone wearing a mask?
How would any such law stand up to any scrutiny? Seems like it would be akin to banning hats.
“…you don't know if they're going to be committing a crime, they're going to have a gun…”
So do absolutely nothing about the guns, but make wearing masks a crime. SMRT!
Is this straight from the Police Department? Facial Recognition not enabling cops to target people if they’re wearing masks?
I haven’t been sick since March of 2020 all because I wear an n95 mask when I’m around others or inside with others. I just don’t like being/getting sick, that’s all. This is extremely irresponsible and dangerous.
Good thing I knew who was behind the mask when I had a procedure at hospital yesterday or I would have been so skeered! 😱 That governor is so ridiculous & is probably only doing it to score points with her supporters.
How is that “freedom”? If they don’t want to wear one, fine, but to ban them? I always hear how my country (Canada) is not “free” but in the last couple of years, we have more freedoms than the US. We always did have freedoms but some Americans seem to miss that. Immunocompromised still mask here.
This is what I've feared would happen. America just seems to have a thing about covering your face. It's seen as suspect, untrustworthy, someone hiding their identity in order to not be recognized in order to do something illegal. From bandits to gangs, face coverings always had that negative stigma
Dear New York State,
As someone who was born and raised in New York, WTaF is up with your governor?
And I ask this humbly, as someone who has lived in Massachusetts since before Mitt Romney(!?) was governor.
Thanks.
She’s crazy. That’s a horrible idea.My husband and I wear masks inside public places and will continue to do so. We haven’t caught Covid or even a cold in over 4 yrs.
There are many immunocompromised people who can’t catch Covid.
awful. my elderly father who lives upstate had to get heart surgery due to long covid. i don’t live on the east coast anymore so can’t vote there but i’m getting real tired of this bitch
Before I could mask in public, I would get a respiratory infection 3 to 4 times a year.
I've only gotten a respiratory illness twice since 2020.
And I know there are a lot of people who consider me weak and think I should just die to strengthen the herd.
The nazis got eugenics from America.
It seems to me this is in part a reaction to the use of masking by protesters. The people masking to protest are not masking anywhere else — COVID is the excuse to become anonymous. A protest of masked people more easily becomes a mob. Anonymity breeds bad behavior as we well know.
The fact that if I search for “impeach Kathy Hochul” just leads to 2021 articles about her stepping in for Cuomo and a couple old conservative change.org petitions is depressing. People need to step it up.
NY governors just determined to kill as many people as possible with health directives. Absolutely no good reason to ban masks. They don’t harm anyone even if you believe they don’t help. This is so cops can record the faces of the people they beat at protests and that they abuse on a daily basis
Pre-pandemic laws banning masks from group events were always harmful. We should have learned from the pandemic that we need to do more to normalize public health tools like masks. After seeing so much death and harm that is continuing, it makes no sense to roll back mask laws.
In the last week, Kathy Hochul has:
- attempted to cancel congestion pricing (so increasing pollution)
- issued a warning about hazardous air quality in NY state
- said she wants to ban respiratory masks in public
I ride the subway in NYC, and live in a heavily Jewish neighborhood. 90% of people don't wear masks already and this whole thing is performative bullshit.
I’ve heard a lot of bad things about that person but banning masks and simultaneously blaming it on Jewish people is so spot-on evil AntiScience Propaganda Bullshit, what. The. Fuck!