Delaware lifting indoor mask mandate Friday; school mask requirement expires end of March
Source: WPVI-TV
WILMINGTON, Delaware (WPVI) -- Delaware Governor John Carney will lift the state's indoor mask mandate at the end of the week while a mask requirement for schools will expire at the end of March.
"We're in a much better place than we were several weeks ago in the middle of the Omicron surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations," Governor Carney said in a statement.
Carney signed a revision to the State of Emergency order on Monday which will end Delaware's universal indoor mask mandate at 8 a.m. on Friday, February 11.
At the same time, the governor temporarily extended the mask requirement in public and private K-12 schools and child care facilities.
Read more: https://6abc.com/delaware-mask-mandate-governor-john-carney-universal-indoor-requirement/11543597/
LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)putting the 'cart before the horse'. How about incenting the school system participants to get to an x% vaccination rate before lifting the mask mandate...as in 'horse before the cart'? Otherwise known as letting scientific facts determine policy.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)LiberalFighter
(50,895 posts)RussBLib
(9,006 posts)Omicron cases have dropped a lot, so maybe opening back up will work. Of course, now we hear of an Omicron sub-variant. Hopefully it won't wreak havoc. Everyone is tired.
I'll bet we end up with an annual Covid booster, like the flu. Fine by me, but it's a damn shame that almost a million Americans have died, many because of the anti-mask idiots.
henbuck
(46 posts)I've had both moderna shots and the booster. Yippee.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)NH Ethylene
(30,809 posts)It will be like coming out of a dark period.
Additionally, it will take the wind out of the sails of discord among antivaccers. This will leave the GOP scrambling for a new 'wedge issue' for November.