Commuters will no longer have mask mandates while they travel. And where her Penn Station plan actually renovates the station, rather than just clearing the way for a donor’s megaproject. In the same alternate reality, we guess, where Hochul has already fixed the no-bail laws -and where dumping a billion bucks in taxpayer cash on building a new Buffalo Bills stadium that benefits her husband’s employer is bold leadership.

Heck, Hochul herself admitted in July that the last remaining justification for the rule was pure theater, claiming it gave straphangers a “sense of security.” In what Bizarro World does an order for everyone to mask, which at least a third of people disobey (again, as of April, per the MTA), make anyone feel safer? And New York’s last significant peak in COVID deaths was back in January the emergency is long over. We’ve long since learned that most mandates do nothing to stop the spread. Andrew Cuomo was riding pandemic alarmism to fame and fortune. The rule was a holdover from 2020, when then-Gov. Hochul announced that masks are now optional on Wednesday. (You need an N95 or better.)Īll of which makes Hochul’s move long overdue - comically so, or perhaps tragically. Some feel it makes them safer or is somehow virtuous: A fifth to a quarter of any given NJTransit train is still masking, months after it became optional.Īnd never mind that most masks do next to nothing to stop COVID spread. Most of the MTA’s masked haven’t even been doing it because of Hochul’s rule. Only a third of the straphangers wore masks on our D train that morning compliance has been steadily dropping since the MTA last tried to measure it in April (64%, it found).Īfter all, no one’s even been pretending to enforce the rule, and the pandemic has been over for months.

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