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.
With the speed they moved, and the adamant way in NC they fought medical exemptions, I think these laws were already in the works.
I suspect it is the difficulty employers have with wanting to force workers to unmask without risking headlines.
No public/employee outcry if the government does it.