Elections have consequences.....

[brooklynite]

Nassau County Exec Tells Schools, Indoor Venues To End Mask Mandates

Newly-elected Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said he will defy Governor Kathy Hochul’s statewide mask mandates, halting enforcement for indoor venues while calling on individual school boards to craft their own policies about face coverings.

“We don’t need people in Albany telling us what we should be doing in Nassau County,” Blakeman said at a press conference Thursday. “The message is: the wearing of masks is optional.”

The move will likely set up a legal stand-off between Blakeman and Hochul, who ordered a mask mandate for schools over the summer, and recently reinstated a rule requiring indoor businesses to require either vaccinations or masks. The order fulfills a campaign pledge by the Republican official to ignore mask mandates, tapping into growing frustration with pandemic-related restrictions, but health experts warn such a move flies in the face of logic and will put people at risk.

Blakeman announced that businesses would not face fines for refusing to follow masking guidance, and that the mandate no longer applied to county workers.

https://gothamist.com/news/nassau-county-exec-tells-schools-indoor-venues-end-mask-mandates

How many people really pay attention to local races?

[walkingman]

1. As a resident of Texas, I do pay attention much to my chagrin.