{"id":1426638,"date":"2022-04-09T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426638"},"modified":"2022-04-09T08:01:31","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:01:31","slug":"nyc-mayor-adams-now-says-he-wants-to-drop-toddler-mask-mandate-within-a-week-as-protests-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-adams-now-says-he-wants-to-drop-toddler-mask-mandate-within-a-week-as-protests-mount\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Adams Now Says He Wants to Drop Toddler Mask Mandate \u201cWithin a Week\u201d as Protests Mount"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fnyc-mayor-adams-now-says-he-wants-to-drop-toddler-mask-mandate-within-a-week-as-protests-mount%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=1426638&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams insisted Friday he wants to try to drop his toddler mask mandate \u201cwithin a week\u201d \u2014 as furious parents protested outside City Hall with huge inflatable babies, demanding an end to the controversial rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to drop it,\u201d Adams told 1010 WINS. \u201cI\u2019m hoping that we can do it within a week or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner, who has been promising for <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/22\/masks-soon-optional-for-kids-ages-2-4-in-nyc-schools-eric-adams\/\">weeks to end the mandate requiring kids under 4 to mask up<\/a> in NYC schools and day cares, doubled down on prior statements that any changes to his mandate will depend on COVID-19 cases and whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/omicron-subvariant-ba-2-is-dominant-but-not-spiking-but-were-not-in-the-clear\/\">BA.2 Omicron subvariant<\/a> is causing infections to spike. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were going to announce it on the Monday that passed, but as you know this new variant is increasing a little. We believe it\u2019s going to stabilize and we will be able to remove the masks for those under 5,\u201d Adams said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel more urgent about dropping that mandate more than others. Trust me when I tell you I want you to see the faces of our children,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-mayor.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams said he wants to drop the toddler mask mandate \u201cwithin a week.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m totally at the mercy of my health team, they stated that we\u2019re continuing to look at the numbers, once they are comfortable and will give me the orders, I\u2019m champing at the bit to get it done.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Adams\u2019 latest comments came as several parents staged protests outside City Hall and in Times Square on Friday, accusing the Mayor of backtracking on his plans to axe the toddler mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters from the NYC Parents for Mask Choice group donned inflatable baby costumes and brandished signs that read \u201cNYC toddlers have been masked for half their lives\u201d and \u201cToddlers have lowest risk for COVID, but highest risk of developmental delays.\u201d  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-5.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall Toddler Mask Protest\" class=\"wp-image-21831553\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-5.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Angry parents protested outside City Hall with giant inflatable babies. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe excuse the mayor keeps giving is New York City is different from any other place. He keeps saying New York is unique. The only thing making us unique right now is that we are the only city in the world mandating masks for toddlers,\u201d\u00a0Tara Murphy, who has two children aged 6 and 4, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are tired of the maybes. We want it now,\u201d she said of Adams\u2019 stance on his mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Luba Greeder, a trained physician and\u00a0mom to three children under 6, wasn\u2019t convinced the Mayor would drop the mandate within a week.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-6.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall Toddler Mask Protest\" class=\"wp-image-21831579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-6.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Protesters brandished signs saying toddlers have the lowest risk of COVID-19 but the highest risk of developmental delays. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI will believe it when I see it,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have lost our trust. The mayor keeps making excuses. He pointed to the density of our city as a reason behind this mandate. The density in the classroom is not any different in New York City than it is in Westchester or Ireland or London or Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lexi Kasper, a mom and ER nurse, slammed Adams for attending public events maskless while her toddler was forced to don a face covering. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been demoralizing for parents of toddlers when knowing that all the other kids, vaccinated or not, can go to school without a mask and the mayor can gallivant around the city in indoor nightclubs, he can do all kinds of indoor events without a mask,\u201d\u00a0she told\u00a0The Post from outside City Hall.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-3.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall Toddler Mask protest\" class=\"wp-image-21831637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/big-babies-city-hall-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mayor Eric Adams has been promising to drop the toddler mask mandate for weeks. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kasper added she was hesitant about putting her toddler daughter into school just because of the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York City is an outlier. Kids in Long Island, kids in Westchester, kids all over the state can unmask and New York City, they\u2019re holding on to this,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been patient, we have been waiting, but it\u2019s just at this point it doesn\u2019t make any sense. It\u2019s frustrating. It doesn\u2019t make \u2026 sense to be this unjust to 2- to 4-year-old kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adams had first promised on March 22 to end the mask mandate for those under 4 barring an increase in COVID cases. It came after he had earlier dropped a similar order for youngsters age 5 and older following Gov. Kathy Hochul\u2019s decision to rescind the state\u2019s mask mandates for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/01\/nyc-judge-nixes-mask-mandates-for-toddlers-eric-adams-plans-appeal\/\">Staten Island judge lifted mask mandates for toddlers citywide<\/a>, but Adams said City Hall was appealing the decision because the city\u2019s overall positivity rate had climbed to 2.67 percent from the rolling monthly average of 2.33 percent. <\/p>\n<p>The mayor has faced increasing backlash over his decision to keep the toddler mask mandate and was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/06\/mayor-adams-says-he-had-no-role-in-firing-nyc-lawyer-who-confronted-him-over-toddler-masks\/\">confronted by an angry mom Monday<\/a> when she stormed an unrelated press conference. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/05\/city-attorney-daniela-jampel-fired-after-confronting-adams-repped-nyc-in-high-profile-cases\/\">Daniela Jampel<\/a>, who was also a Law Department staffer, had accused Adams of reneging on his promise to\u00a0rescind the mandate, saying he \u201cpulled the rug out from under\u201d parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It later emerged that Jampel had been fired by the city shortly after the confrontation \u2014 but Adams insisted he had no role in terminating her. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Eric Adams insisted Friday he wants to try to drop his toddler mask mandate \u201cwithin a week\u201d \u2014 as furious parents protested outside City Hall with huge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1426638","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\/1426638","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426638\/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=1426638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}