{"id":1233059,"date":"2022-01-23T11:39:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233059"},"modified":"2022-01-23T11:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:39:39","slug":"they-adapt-better-than-adults-do-ny-gov-hochul-defends-mask-mandates-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-adapt-better-than-adults-do-ny-gov-hochul-defends-mask-mandates-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Adapt Better Than Adults Do\u2019: NY Gov Hochul Defends Mask Mandates For Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthey-adapt-better-than-adults-do-ny-gov-hochul-defends-mask-mandates-for-kids%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1233059&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Speaking of the mask mandates that have been imposed on children in her state, New York Democrat governor Kathy Hochul opined, \u201cMy daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better than adults do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Hochul, \u201cRegarding the mask mandates: I want to know if the state has a particular number, whether it be a test of positivity rate or a hospitalization rate that when you go under the mask mandates would be lifted or is the state playing that by ear?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not paying it by ear; we\u2019re going to be driven by data,\u201d Hochul insisted. \u201cAnd look at what our situation was prior to the mandates and assess was that the right number to go back to. I can\u2019t say with certainty but that is a starting pit to look at the number before we instituted these. We instituted these because we saw the storm coming our way. We watched the global trends; we saw how quickly this escalated in our countries, like England and South Africa and we knew that could hit us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we took steps literally the day the first case arrived in New York state which was December 2 and announced the first series of restrictions going up for the next couple of weeks,\u201d she continued. \u201cSo I think about this a lot; I\u2019m not going to operate in a vacuum; we\u2019re going to have data and experts and people who know a lot about what the next trends are, but I am really looking forward to lifting them; I truly am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then she offered her opinion about children and masks: \u201cI know people are tired, but I also want to say one thing about the kids: My daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better than adults do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m really proud of the parents who made sure that their kids understood this is for their safety and got it done,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>She concluded, \u201cBut we\u2019re looking forward to the day we can lift the school as well as the business requirements. I truly am. That\u2019ll be a fabulous day. That means that we\u2019ve turned the corner in a way that we don\u2019t feel we\u2019re going to be sliding backwards any time soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MASK MANDATES FOR CHILDREN: Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) says: &#8220;My daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better than adults do.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pOYz3WY95i\">pic.twitter.com\/pOYz3WY95i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Forbes (@Forbes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Forbes\/status\/1484562599861755908?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 21, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/nys-hochul-says-mask-mandates-schoolchildren-are-necessary-safety-step-2021-08-15\/\">Reuters<\/a> reported last August:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Text__text___3eVx1j Text__dark-grey___AS2I_p Text__regular___Bh17t- Text__large___1i0u1F Body__base___25kqPt Body__large_body___3g04wK ArticleBody__element___3UrnEs\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\"><em>Incoming New York Governor Kathy Hochul said on Sunday that she supported mask mandates for children in school as a necessary safety step for helping New York get through a new wave of COVID-19 infections.&nbsp;Hochul, speaking in an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union\u201d program, said masks for kids in schools was \u201csomething that I believe has to occur\u201d for the safety of children, teachers, school administrators, and the wider community.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last September,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-hochul-announces-series-universal-mask-requirements-protect-new-yorkers-amid-rise\">announcing<\/a>&nbsp;a series of universal mask requirements, Hochul stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>For children under 12 who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated, masks are the best line of defense against COVID-19 infection. This new mask requirement ensures that children in our child care facilities receive the same protection as children in our schools.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of the mask mandates that have been imposed on children in her state, New York Democrat governor Kathy Hochul opined, \u201cMy daughter had a meltdown about having to put sneakers on to go to kindergarten. She got used to wearing sneakers in school. They adapt better than adults do.\u201d A reporter asked Hochul, \u201cRegarding &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}