May 14, 2021
Andrew Cuomo defies CDC guidance, orders New Yorkers to keep masks on
By
Monica Showalter
From the man who seeded nursing homes with COVID patients under penalty of law, we now hear from him to keep our masks on, breathing our own germs over and over, and never mind what the Centers for Disease Control says.
According to the
New York Post:
In a late-afternoon statement, Cuomo said he and Health Commissioner Howard Zucker had yet to decide if the Empire State would adopt newly announced guidelines from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“In New York, we have always relied on the facts and the science to guide us throughout the worst of this pandemic and in our successful reopening,” Cuomo said.
“We have received the newly revised guidance from the CDC regarding mask wearing and social distancing for those with vaccinations and are reviewing them in consultation with Dr. Zucker and our partners and health experts in surrounding states.”
“In New York, we have always relied on the facts and the science to guide us throughout the worst of this pandemic and in our successful reopening,” [New York's Gov. Andrew] Cuomo said.
Which is ridiculous. The CDC, to Democrats, is the holy grail of pronuncimentos. Seems Cuomo didn't get the memo.
Maybe that's because politically, he's a pariah. He's a pervy sex abuser who won't resign to start, and a famous filler of nursing home patients by executive order, ordering COVID patients to be let in or else, keeping families of nursing home residents out, but letting verifiably disease carrying people in, now trying to cover up his tracks with illegal coverups.
Now he's promoting bad science, the better to keep his state unliveable. Places like Texas and Florida have long dropped their mask mandates and seen positive results, but Cuomo clings to the old mask and lockdown culture, even when the leftist CDC says 'don't.'
In New York City's case, his logic is particularly absurd.
New York City residents have been riding that tight-packed subway for more than a year in this pandemic, a system so packed no mask is ever going to help. The city saw a giant COVID surge at the beginning of the pandemic, quite likely as a result of this, and then suddenly, a lot less, becoming one of the first cities in the country to show evidence of
herd immunity after all that riding. The city also got through their Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots, with little spread of the disease. Those activities were excused by the CDC because they agreed with their politics, overriding their guidance elsewhere. Yet nothing happened, because the herd immunity again, seems to have been in place.
