New Jersey and Delaware to end statewide mask mandates for students

[Anti Federalist]

New Jersey and Delaware to end statewide mask mandates for students

https://www.inquirer.com/health/cor...date-new-jersey-gov-phil-murphy-20220207.html

by Rob Tornoe
Updated an hour ago

New Jersey will lift its requirement for students and school staff to wear masks the second week of March as COVID-19 cases continue to decline across the state.

Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce the new policy at a COVID-19 briefing Monday at 1 p.m. The New York Times was first to report the news.

”The overwhelming sentiment on both sides of the aisle is we want to get to a place where we can live with this thing in as normal a fashion as possible,” Murphy said last week after meeting with President Joe Biden at the White House during an annual conference for governors.

Delaware will also lift its statewide mask mandate for K-12 students and school employees, but it will remain in place until March 31. Carney’s office said the delay will allow districts and schools time to consider local mask requirements and gives the state time to work on updating its quarantine and contact tracing guidance. It also gives parents time to get their children age 5 and older vaccinated.

 

[Anti Globalist]

Surprising. New Jersey and Delaware seem like states that would keep students wearing masks permanently.

 

[cjm]

Surprising. New Jersey and Delaware seem like states that would keep students wearing masks permanently.

One mandate "will be lifted" in five weeks and the other in seven.... because cases are declining. I've got a $1 that says cases will climb between now and then and those states won't follow through with removing their mandates. That will make the masked/jabbed crazy since it'll be the unjabbed and unmasked preventing their freedom allowance. There are still several Greek letters out there.

 

[vita3]

Sumthin’

 

[familydog]

Carney’s office said the delay will allow districts and schools time to consider local mask requirements and gives the state time to work on updating its quarantine and contact tracing guidance.

Masking now and forever. Just at the local level.

The only victory would be a legislative masking ban.