{"id":1416098,"date":"2022-04-02T12:14:37","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416098"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T16:14:41","slug":"new-york-city-will-continue-forced-masking-of-children-under-5-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-city-will-continue-forced-masking-of-children-under-5-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Will Continue Forced Masking Of Children Under 5 Years Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fnew-york-city-will-continue-forced-masking-of-children-under-5-years-old%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=1416098&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1257323702.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last month, everyone in New York City was allowed to stop wearing masks \u2013 except for children under five years old, even though they have one of the lowest risks for contracting and spreading COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city would continue to force children aged two to four to continue wearing masks, claiming the decision was about \u201cchildren\u2019s health and safety.\u201d Earlier that same day, a judge on Staten Island had issued an order to invalidate the mandate, which the city appealed. Adams announced later on Friday that an appellate judge had ruled in the city\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n<p>Adams then took to Twitter to say that \u201cChildren between 2 and 4 should continue to wear their masks in school and daycare come Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Every decision we make is with our children\u2019s health and safety in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Children between 2 and 4 should continue to wear their masks in school and daycare come Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NYCMayor\/status\/1510037890809618445?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dr. Ashwin Vasan, New York City\u2019s health commissioner, said at a news conference that the city was \u201crecommending to wait a little bit longer before making masks optional for this age group,\u201d The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/04\/01\/nyregion\/eric-adams-mask-mandate-children.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet noted that Adams had previously announced that he would end the mandate for toddlers to continue masking, but rescinded after daily case numbers \u2013 not hospitalizations or deaths \u2013 started rising again. The decision was also made because preschoolers are too young to receive the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The Times even acknowledged that \u201cHospitalizations have remained low in New York City over the last month and are currently at about 13 per day, although hospitalizations are often a lagging indicator. There were about 1,000 hospitalizations a day in January, when cases last soared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The seven-day average for deaths in New York City is five. The highest seven-day average in January, which the Times used as its marker, was 155.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to continue masking toddlers against evidence showing that masks cause more harm than the limited protection they provide was met with swift condemnation. Karol Markowicz, a New York Post columnist who moved to Florida to escape the harm done to her children by New York\u2019s policies, took Vasan and Adams to task for the decision on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNYC Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan is the person recommending toddler masking, in the face of absolutely all evidence showing it to be unnecessary and harmful. Don\u2019t forget his name. There are people who purposely hurt children during this pandemic and he is one of them,\u201d Markowicz tweeted. \u201cMayor Eric Adams is the absolute weakling taking Commissioner Vasan\u2019s awful, ignorant, advice. There are politicians who stood by while kids were actively harmed with stupid, pointless, masking policies that added absolutely no benefit to fighting COVID. Adams is one of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mayor Eric Adams is the absolute weakling taking Commissioner Vasan\u2019s awful, ignorant, advice. There are politicians who stood by while kids were actively harmed with stupid, pointless, masking policies that added absolutely no benefit to fighting COVID. Adams is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karol Markowicz (@karol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karol\/status\/1510255112781971457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-drops-vaccine-passport-k-12-mask-mandates-but-kids-under-5-still-have-to-mask-up\">reported<\/a> in early March, Adams announced he would end a slew of COVID-19 restrictions, including the \u201cvaccine passport system for gyms, restaurants, and entertainment areas will end on Monday, along with K-12 school mask requirements.\u201d While everyone else was allowed to ditch their restrictions, children under five were not.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, everyone in New York City was allowed to stop wearing masks \u2013 except for children under five years old, even though they have one of the lowest risks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"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-1416098","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\/1416098","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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416098\/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=1416098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}