NY Congressional candidate on de Blasio's school mask mandate: 'It's absolutely ridiculous'
Congressional candidate Liz Joy, R-N.Y., on New York City students being required to wear masks in public schools.
New York Congressional candidate Liz Joy joined ‘Fox & Friends Weekend' Sunday to discuss NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mask mandate for public schools, arguing children have been ‘under enough duress’ during the pandemic.
LIZ JOY: Well, I think it's absolutely ridiculous. I mean, the kids in this city right now, they're going to have to go to school in 80 degree, 90 degree heat. Those schools are not air-conditioned. They have to be wearing masks. Here's what the science shows. The science actually shows that there's heat exhaustion, there's asthma exacerbations. Kids have been fainting. School nurses are complaining that children are being dehydrated… This is what the science is proving. It has been 15 long months. It's time for this mandate to be completely lifted all over the state.
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What the mandate said was it was amended and it was strongly encouraged that unvaccinated children still be masked and vaccinated children can remove their masks. And I don't want to see that our children are being treated differently. I don't want to see them being coerced. I don't want to see them being shamed. They've already been under enough duress and mental stress over the past 15 months.
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…I think ultimately it's because they want everybody to be vaccinated. I think in the fall we're going to see a huge push for all of our children to be vaccinated. And they do need to pay attention to the fact that now they're doing that… The bottom line is freedom of choice. Parents are the best experts of their children and they get to decide what gets put into their children's bodies.
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