New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will end the school masking mandate next month, his office confirmed.
Murphy has hinted in the last few weeks that he was considering rescinding the universal masking rules, especially as. Last week Murphy said the state’s hospitalization numbers were mirroring rates right before Christmas just as the omicron variant caused cases and hospitalizations to spike.
No matter what decision he makes, he's not going to please everyone. Bottom line is as a parent the decision to keep your kids masked up or not is up to you.
Just what NYC needs. 500,000 possibly infected maskless New Jerseyans commuting to New York City to work and school and infecting New Yorkers.
Of course it’s an election year and he wants to keep Democratic control. Such crap. I can’t stand him
Good for them!
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Bah! BA.2... Welcome to The Garden State to freely OmicronVariant perhaps a new 'Newark' and 'Lodi' variant. 'Ho-Ho-Kus' sounds like a virus anyways... N95 GovMurphy got your back but not your nose.
GovMurphy has chosen economics over health & safety! If the world now is great, let’s just drop the mask altogether. “Learn to live” with COVID19 is the plan. Government has found a healthy death rate ☠️ 🚨 Politicians are clowns 🤡 And Murphy & wife quarantined a few days ago
Masks don’t do harm…losing someone you love to Covid does
So sad.
Mistake. We have to stop doing what causes spread. Nobody should not be allowed to enter without a mask. They should at least be triple vax. We have to stop vilifying mask wearing. Mask are a part of what we wear/use to be safe, like clothes, shoes, seatbelts, etc.GovMurphy
The number of children under 18 who died in vehicle crashes from January through September in recent years was nearly six times higher than the number of children who died of Covid-19 from January through September of 2021.
Covid-19 has killed 280 children under 18 from January through September 2021. Flu and pneumonia, heart disease, drowning, guns, and motor vehicles were all deadlier to children during the same time periods annually from 2015 to 2019 (the latest years with available data).
Here we go again this is the problem why will never get back to normal no patience
What about the grade school kids who can't get vaccinated
It seems like other states soon to follow same thoughtless policy change.
I'm never having children. It's almost selfish at this point to bring others into this suffering.
And yet silence from GovKathyHochul. She is fighting to keep masks on. The WORST
Terrible decision by GovMurphy . The only thing keeping schools open are masks. The cause of the disruption is a dangerous worldwide airborne viral pandemic, NOT the mitigation used to keep people safe. If he drops it, there will be more disruption.smh
Dangerous decision!
As EXPERT sent Trump ATCovid PTC plan pre-Vac EUA's proly got quashed by FRAUD Fauci CDC FDA HACKS woulda saved 1000s DIED NEEDLESSLY, is no data supports 😷 K-12 nor is their YET sufficient RESEARCH justifies Benefit Outweighs dosing kids. As is case 87 Psychotropics ADD ADHD?
PhilMurphyNJ doesn’t care that medically vulnerable people are still at risk. Immunocompromised lives matter. I will keep my mask on.
If New Jersey sees a rise in children catching COVID, you know why
YAY GovMurphy!NOW PLS TALK 2your neighbors GovKathyHochul & NYCMayor TO DROP ALL MANDATES AS NewJersey never had them so ENOUGH NewYorkCity ! restaurants movietheaters & people ALL SUFFERING from unnecessary restrictions! LET’S get back to real life!!
2600 a day.
See, I don't understand that. Visitors should have to wear masks. At the least.
Lift the ban now. Why wait a month? Enough already. Let the children breathe!!
Big mistake!!
Look at the profiles that approve of this stupidity, most are Bots, foreigners and idiots.
The Right during the elections: “if Murphy is re-elected he will impose another mask mandate”
GovMurphy Please keep our kids safe in school and keep the mask mandate.
Of course, it's coming up to election time Let the pandering begin. Like Dr. Oz opined, just a few kids will die but it will be a small percentage.
In the face of the most transmissible variant yet, with waning vaccine efficacy, and a 3 shot regime not yet able to be fully given to most under 12, he is ending our most efficient and least costly NPI. Just pure madness
Must be an election year julie_kelly2
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Look for another COVID surge about 10-14 days later.
Yall was really sending your kids to school with masks. Im sure the kids loved that
HERO. LET OUT CHILDREN BREATHE. DEFEAT THE FACE HUGGING VIRUS.
Why March 7, what’s the magic around that exact date? How about tomorrow which is the absolute right thing to do.
So school aged children in NJ may not visit their grandparents or any immunocompromised family members?
I'm rejoicing!!!!!!!! Way too long in coming, but I'm grateful that some of the damage that has been done to our precious children will now be able to be undone!
Wait, what? Don't tell me Phil Murphy has actually woken up to reality
Deep Breath. Why are we setting up the new spike before the current one is still among us?
Perfect timing if the goal is to insure that all the kids and staff that have thus far dodged the covid bullet, have it in time for Spring Break.
Masks don’t do anything. My sons fully masked and vaccinated teacher gave his entire class Covid. He then gave it to me and my wife. All of the kids wear masks because that what the cdc is telling everyone to do. Masks do nothing to prevent this.
YAY GovMurphy!! NOW PLS TALK to your neighbors GovKathyHochul and NYCMayor TO DROP ALL MANDATES AS NewJersey never had them so ENOUGH NewYorkCity ! restaurants movietheaters & people ALL SUFFERING! LET’S get back to real life!!
Yikes! WearAMask
Why? This does not make any sense! Folks don’t seem to understand that masks help keep Covid from spreading & mutating. We will never get out of this diseased hell we’re in! ☠️🤬 COVIDisAirborne WearAMask Schools BA2
Finally
Dangerous. Only 30% of little ones vaccinated.
Good!
This seems like a good move. I hope Governor Hochul does it too
I hate it here.
thank you jesus!
Power move!
Perfect timing if the goal is to insure that all the kids and staff that have thus far dodged the covid bullet, have it in time for Spring Break.
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