{"id":608739,"date":"2021-08-02T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=608739"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:06:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:06:31","slug":"nyc-mayor-de-blasio-steers-clear-of-mask-mandate-strongly-recommends-masks-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-de-blasio-steers-clear-of-mask-mandate-strongly-recommends-masks-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor De Blasio Steers Clear Of Mask Mandate, \u2018Strongly\u2019 Recommends Masks Indoors"},"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\">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%2Fnyc-mayor-de-blasio-steers-clear-of-mask-mandate-strongly-recommends-masks-indoors%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=608739&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/041F8EC5-6A10-4172-9BB0-7D1C00D4F555_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/02\/nyregion\/de-blasio-masks-vaccines.html\">pressed<\/a> the public to wear masks inside, regardless of vaccination status, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe want to strongly recommend that people wear a mask in indoor settings even if you\u2019re vaccinated,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/565919-de-blasio-stops-short-of-mask-mandate-in-nyc-but-issues-strong\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a> during a briefing. \u201cNow this is particularly true, of course, if you might be around anyone unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cVaccines are the number one most powerful weapon against COVID by far,\u201d de Blasio&nbsp;said. \u201cBut we also clearly believe there\u2019s a place for masks. Everything thing we do is vaccine-centric. The entire strategy is around vaccines, but of course, we want to make sure people are using masks in all the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7639751552795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mayor Bill de Blasio: &#8220;We want to strongly recommend that people wear masks in indoor settings.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b02YDBDtZj\">pic.twitter.com\/b02YDBDtZj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Hill (@thehill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1422215413220397059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">City&nbsp;Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi said the decision came after new information revealed the delta variant \u201ccan spread even more easily than previously thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhile vaccination may be \u2018for the win,\u2019 we need to keep putting points on the board against the virus, and that\u2019s where masks come in,\u201d Chokshi said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some lawmakers around the country have pushed back against a potential mask mandate after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance on masking last week for vaccinated individuals. The announcement caused widespread confusion across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week, a business owner explained his position against mask mandates in New York City on Friday in an interview on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewDay\/status\/1421070323928158208\"><span class=\"s1\">CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day.\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Eli Klein is the owner of an art gallery and said he is against the city imposing more restrictions. Host John Berman said to Klein, \u201cYou really don\u2019t want to go back to masks indoors in your gallery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Klein said \u201cit\u2019s not just about my gallery. It\u2019s about New York City generally. If we are subject to sweeping mask mandates now in the summer, you know, let\u2019s be honest \u2026 we don\u2019t know when COVID levels will ever be lower than they are now in New York City and that could put us on a slippery slope to all kinds of the same restrictions that we were subject to last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">He added, \u201cThings like micro-cluster targeting and capacity limits and business shutdowns. It\u2019s not just a mask.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cNone of us have a problem just putting on a mask. It\u2019s really much more than that. It\u2019s a blueprint for indefinite government restrictions in New York,\u201d he noted. \u201cWe\u2019ve had vaccines available for everyone [ages twelve and up] for many months and there has to be an endgame. There has to be an off-ramp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last week, Republican Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/desantis-signs-executive-order-giving-parents-power-to-choose-whether-to-mask-their-kids-at-school\"><span class=\"s1\">signed<\/span><\/a> an executive order focused on allowing parents to decide if their children should wear a mask in school or not.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cToday, Governor Ron DeSantis issued Executive Order 21-175, in response to several Florida school boards considering or implementing mask mandates in their schools after the Biden Administration issued unscientific and inconsistent recommendations that school-aged children wear masks,\u201d the governor\u2019s office&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2021\/07\/30\/governor-desantis-issues-an-executive-order-ensuring-parents-freedom-to-choose\/\"><span class=\"s1\">said<\/span><\/a>&nbsp;in a statement on Friday. \u201cThe Florida Department of Health will enter rulemaking in collaboration with the Florida Department of Education to protect parents\u2019 freedom to choose whether their children wear masks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">DeSantis said at a press conference where he signed the executive order that \u201cthe federal government has no right to tell parents that in order for their kids to attend school in person, they must be forced to wear a mask all day, every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The executive order came after some districts have moved to potentially require masks to be worn at schools in the fall after the CDC revised its guidance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>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<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pressed the public to wear masks inside, regardless of vaccination status, on Monday.\u201cWe want to strongly recommend that people wear a mask &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608739","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\/608739","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=608739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608739\/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=608739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}