‘SMILES AGAIN’: Gov. Hochul announced that she is lifting the indoor mask mandate for schools in NY effective on March 2nd.

“Given the decline in our rates, our hospitalizations, strong vaccination rates and the CDC guidance, we, friends, the day has come,” Hochul said. “Today we are going to be announcing that we’ll be lifting the statewide mask requirement in schools, and that’ll be effective this Wednesday, March 2.”

After a lot of backlash from republican elected officials, parents, and community leaders, Hochul has decided to be last in the country to unmask our kids.

In her comments on Sunday, Hochul urged New Yorkers to treat those who continue to wear masks with respect. Masks are still required on transit and in state-regulated healthcare facilities, nursing homes, prisons and shelters.

“We will not stand for any bullying or ostracization or harassment of an individual or a business or anyone who chooses to wear a mask,” the governor said. “We’re going to continue distributing masks, we’re going to continue distributing test kits. We’re going to continue our aggressive vaccination strategies.”

It was ok for people to be bullied if they were not vaccinated or refused to wear a mask, according to hochul, but NOT okay to bully people who still wear a mask and are vaccinated. Kind of a double standard.

Looks like in order to live in peace and freedom you have to bow down to tyrannical regimes. Doesn’t sound very American.

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