New York City does not “intend” to require masks indoors as the Big Apple sees an uptick in COVID-19 cases amid a highly infectious variant surge, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday.
“No. Simple answer: no,” de Blasio said Monday morning during his daily press briefing, when asked if the city would reinstitute a face-covering mandate for the unvaccinated and vaccinated in indoor spaces, following a vocal local politician calling for one.
“Masks have value, unquestionably. But masks are not going at the root of the problem — vaccination is.”
De Blasio vowed that the city will “double down” on vaccination outreach to combat the recent rise in coronavirus cases.
“We do not intend [to enact a] mask mandate. We do intend to double down on vaccination,” he said.
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No no no. DeBlasio is mamesh a rodef and a rotziach. We are michuyav to be maaser on him to the authorities. We must all don our masks for the rest of our lives.