Hochul’s New Regulations: Power to detain suspected health threats, Impose masks at anytime, More shot mandates for healthcare workers, school nurses can give C-19 shots

Unelected New York Governor Kathy Hochul is attempting to bypass the New York legislature and the most basic democratic processes by creating regulations that give her permanent dictatorial powers. She has written regulations that will allow her to arrest and imprison suspected public health threats, give her the power to impose at will mandatory masks, and expand the number of healthcare workers who must get the Covid injections.

Regulations are supposed to be minor rules devised by the bureaucracies to implement a law passed by the legislature and signed by Governor. But Hochul is attempting to give herself entirely new powers through the regulatory back door. Cuomo used to do this all the time. If he could not get a bill he wanted passed in the legislature he would simply write regulations that did the same thing, and our feckless legislature never did anything to stop him or to protect their responsibilities as lawmakers.

Hochul wants the following:

Seizure and imprisonment of suspected public health risks, Amendment of Part 2, Section 405.3 and Addition of Section 58-1.14 to Title 10 NYCRR (Investigation of Communicable Disease; Isolation and Quarantine)

Hochul is now attempting to give herself the power to detain and imprison anybody without trial who she declares to be a possible public health risk. We all know about Assembly bill A416, the public health gulag bill, which would have allowed the Governor to imprison without trial anyone she declares to be a public health risk. It sat in the assembly for six years and never went anywhere until it was finally withdrawn by the sponsor. So now Hochul will just give herself that power through a regulation. Nothing in the regulation stops her from declaring anyone who has not had the shot as a public health risk and vulnerable to arrest and imprisonment.

Read the proposed regulation here: https://regs.health.ny.gov/sites/default/files/proposed-regulations/Investigation%20of%20Communicable%20Disease%3B%20Isolation%20and%20Quarantine.pdf

Permanent authority to order masks, Amendment of Section 2.60 of Title 10 NYCRR & Repeal of Subpart 66-3 of Title 10 NYCRR (Face Coverings for COVID-19 Prevention)

Hochul also wants the authority to require masks in all public places without having to declare a public health emergency. The proposed regulation includes language that would allow distinguishing “between individuals who are vaccinated against COVID-19 and those that are not vaccinated.” This language would allow mandating only un-vaccinated people to wear masks as a means of punishing dissent and dissenters. We know that the shots do not prevent transmission of Covid,  we know that the vast majority of masks in use do not prevent the transmission of Covid. And, of course, it pretends that natural immunity in recovered people does not exist.

Read the proposed regulation here:  https://regs.health.ny.gov/sites/default/files/proposed-regulations/Face%20Coverings%20for%20COVID-19%20Prevention.pdf

Expanding workers required to get Covid shots, Addition of Section 2.61 to Title 10 NYCRR, Amendment of Sections 405.3, 415.19, 751.6, 763.13, 766.11, 794.3 & 1001.11 of Title 10 NYCRR & Sections 487.9, 488.9 and 490.9 of Title 18 NYCRR (Prevention of COVID-19 Transmission by Covered Entities

Workers required to get Covid shots will expand to include but not limited to employees at general hospitals, nursing homes, and diagnostic and treatment centers, certified home health agencies, long term home health care programs, acquired immune deficiency syndrome home care programs, licensed home care service agencies, limited licensed home care service agencies, hospices, and adult care facility. Religious exemptions will not be allowed. Employers will need to maintain records and make them available to the NYSDOH.

Read the proposed regulation here:  https://regs.health.ny.gov/sites/default/files/proposed-regulations/Prevention%20of%20COVID-19%20Transmission%20by%20Covered%20Entities.pdf

New York State Regents Move to allow School Nurses to give Covid Shots at school

Should the Board of Regents adopt the proposed amendment to subdivision (a) of section 64.7 of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education relating to the execution by registered professional nurses of non-patient specific orders to administer COVID-19 immunizations?

This clears the way for school nurses to give Covid shots at school.  This amendment will be considered at the Next Regents meeting February 14-15.

Long Island’s Regent is Roger Tilles, Lorber Hall, Room 211 Long Island University Post, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, NY 11548 (516) 299-3505, Regent.Tilles@nysed.gov

Please get on the phone and call the Governor and let her know that you are opposed to these proposed regulations and her effort to bypass our elected representative and us by sneaking this through as a regulation.

Governor Kathy Hochul (518) 474-8390,  (212) 681-4580, Hochul only takes voice mail. Call anyway.

Fax (518) 474-1513

Email at governor.ny.gov

https://www.facebook.com/govkathyhochul

Twitter: @GovKathyHochul

And call the leaders of the legislature and ask them if they support the Governor completing bypassing the legislative process:

Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins

Albany: Telephone (518) 455-2585, (518) 455-2715

Albany:  Fax (518) 426-6844, (518) 426-6811

District: Telephone (914) 423-4031, Fax (914) 423-0979,

New York City: Telephone (212) 298-5585, Fax (212) 298-5623

scousins@nysenate.gov

https://www.facebook.com/andrea.stewartcousins

Twitter: @AndreaSCousins

Speaker of the Assembly Carl Heastie

Albany: (518) 455-3791, District: (718) 654-6539

speaker@nyassembly.gov

https://www.facebook.com/carl.heastie

Twitter: @carlheastie

The regulation would also allows vaccinated people to be treated differently than unvaccinated people. This policy is based on assumptions not supported by the science. First, we know that the vast majority of masks in use do not  provide any protection from Covid 19.  And vaccinated people are as likely to carry Covid 19 as unvaccinated, The CDC has said as much. Nor is it clear that using any type of masks on a population vasis  has a better health outcome than not using them.  It also ignores the fact that Covid 19 vaccines do not stop the spread of Covid 19. The CDC and Covid 19 manufacturers acknowledge that fact.

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