NY Take Action: NYC Mayor Adams extends pointless, abusive mask mandate for toddlers.

New York City Mayor Eric Adam’s insistence on keeping pre-schoolers masked has gone beyond being a brain-dead, pointless exercise in mass child abuse to a ridiculous farce.

Last Friday Adams reneged on his earlier statements that he would lift his mask order on toddlers this Monday, ostensibly because of an uptick from 500 to 1250 daily Covid cases in a city of nearly nine million people.

Later that day a Superior Court Judge in Staten Island placed an injunction on Adam’s order, writing in his decision that the policy is “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.” In our thoroughly politicized court system, of course, the injunction was overturned on appeal within hours.

Yesterday a parent whose child is subject to continued masking confronted Adams at a press conference, and today she was fired from her job with New York City.

This follows in the wake of Adam’s decisions to let athletes and entertainers work in New York City without the need for a Covid shot yet all other employed people in the five boros must get the jabs.

Meanwhile tens of thousands of unmasked, unjabbed people of all ages are packing into arenas and stadiums (as they should), and Adams is doing his best to get people back into offices, bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Fortunately for them, the ever vigilant Adams is protecting those folks by masking the kids in daycare and pre-school.

Nobody disputes that masked children are missing important developmental speech and communication milestones because they cannot see teachers and caregivers forming words, and speech is muffled by an item that even the CDC admits is no more than a “facial decoration.” And children with autism and other communication and developmental disabilities are those who are most negatively impacted by the mask mandate.

At the press conference announcing the continuation of masking toddlers, Ashwin Vasan, the head of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene asked, in the patronizing and condescending style we have come to expect from public health bureaucrats, for “patience and grace” from parents without bothering to offer any explanation of why continued masking of toddlers, and only toddlers, had any real world connection to a minor increase in cases for the population as a whole. He further claimed that the decision, which some might say appears to be a self-serving, destructive clutching to extraordinary powers, was motivated by an “abundance of caution.”

While this was all going on this week, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene adopted the newspeak term “birthing person” as a replacement for the word “mother” because they believe the word “mother” is politically unacceptable. Any organization that has issues with the word “mother” is controlled by dangerous ideologues who have no business making health decisions for anybody.

Please let Mayor Adams know that this madness has to stop now.

In NYC dial 311, outside NYC dial 1 (212) NEW-YORK