New York City Health Commissioner Orders Under-Fives to be Masked Forever

New York City’s new Health Commissioner has caused anger after announcing that children aged five and under should wear face masks indefinitely, bucking the national trend of ditching masks and going in the face of evidence that kids are at almost zero risk from COVID-19. MailOnline has the story.

“I think it’s indefinite at this point,” Dr. Ashwin Vasan said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in Queens. “People who have tried to predict what’s going to happen in the future in this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say, and I’m not going to do that here today.”

The woke commissioner, who lives in Brooklyn with his partner and three children, including a four-year-old son, argued he wanted to mask children because under fives are not vaccinated.

“As a father of a two-and-a-half-year old-and two other older kids, I want to keep them as safe as possible. I would love nothing more than to send my son to daycare without a mask,” Vasan said, according to CBS New York

“But as a scientist, and as a doctor, and an epidemiologist, I want to keep him safe because he’s not eligible for a vaccine.”

His comments sparked fear and fury among frustrated New York parents who face having to force their young children to keep wearing a mask in the face of mounting evidence that they are at little risk. 

It also comes as every state, including California which ended its mandate last week, has lifted or announced plans to lift masking requirements in schools. 

The lone holdout is Hawaii, which is dropping its indoor mask mandate on March 26th but expected to extend the requirement for schools. 

New York state and city also lifted school mask mandates earlier this month. 

The nonsense piled upon nonsense of this measure boggles the mind. There is no robust evidence that surgical masks (let alone cloth masks) significantly reduce the spread of respiratory disease including COVID-19. There is little evidence that vaccination does much to reduce the spread for long. Children are at very low risk of serious disease from COVID-19. And Omicron is even milder than earlier variants. Plus masks are harmful. No wonder the rest of the country and world is dropping interventions of all kinds, including mask mandates. But not Dr. Vasan in NYC.

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unmaskthetruth
4 years ago

Poor poor children. What a truly fucking horrible World they are being brought up in. It breaks my heart.

George L
4 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

Breaks my as well.. and makes me spitting angry too..

True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
4 years ago
Reply to  George L

It literally makes me want to VOMIT whenever I see kids wearing masks!

stewart
4 years ago
Reply to  unmaskthetruth

Masking children is child abuse.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  stewart

It is. And it makes the desires of the person who is pushing this diktat decidedly suspicious.

George L
4 years ago

Both evil and idiocy truly do stalk this planet in the guise of people such as the jerk mentioned above.. Dr. Ashwin Vasan..

bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Hideous. What an utter scumbag. But that’s the build back better world.

rtj1211
rtj1211
4 years ago

Just refuse to comply. If 100% of parents refuse to comply, the diktat is dead.

True Spirit of America Party
True Spirit of America Party
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

BINGO

Alter Ego
Alter Ego
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

They can start one parent at a time: do not wait for the others; the others are waiting for you.

Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

Correct! RESIST DEFY DO NOT COMPLY!!!

Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

Yes, but he apparently is a parent and yet he wants to mask his little ones to keep them safe. So many parents follow his example and so the child abuse continues.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

I really can’t imagine why the parents don’t just do that. They can’t ALL be abusive. Are they THAT cowed?

JXB
JXB
4 years ago

There is irrefutable evidence that being mentally ill is a requirement for any position in national or local government in all Countries.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  JXB

Mainly, but not exclusively the USA.

tom171uk
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Most definitely the UK.

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

The more I hear of people like this extremist, the more I hate them. He’s not keeping them safe, he’s destroying their childhood, the chance to smile, to make faces at school friends, to live normally. He sounds like a fanatic who sees germs as a problem, something we can’t fight with the immune system we were given and which develops from birth, he is literally undermining this development. He should be removed from any involvement with children.

Fraser Nelsons Underpants
Fraser Nelsons Underpants
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

He is a child abuser and there is no other word for it.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

But it makes one wonder what part the mother of his children is playing in this kind of abuse.

Epi
Epi
4 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

And HIS children taken away from him, he’s irresponsible and a menace.

HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
4 years ago

Well, it’s down to the people now. Stop waiting for your government to lead you. Stop giving your power away.YOU get to choose which way this goes. Do you want your child’s face indefinitely covered, which doesn’t protect them or anyone else and indeed may cause harm, like the vaccine, which also doesn’t protect them or anyone else and indeed make cause harm. Just. Say. NO!

David101
4 years ago

So as a father, he would love nothing more than to send his kids to school unmasked. But as a doctor he would like to keep them “safe” by masking them. Therefore he sees his role as a scientist or doctor as more important than his role as a parent! Not only is this “scientist” uninformed of the science, he’s also got his priorities upside-down.

rtj1211
rtj1211
4 years ago
Reply to  David101

He’s neither a ‘scientist’ nor a ‘doctor’. A scientist evaluates evidence and the evidence is absolutely clear: masks do zero for children. Zero.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

The masks don’t do anything for anyone.
Only profits for the manufacturer

Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago
Reply to  rtj1211

He is a doctator.

8bit
8bit
4 years ago

Dr. Vasan continued: “And let me just add, New York City is committed to woke virtue signaling its way out of this pandemic, even at the cost of our children’s well being.”

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

Child abuse.

rtj1211
rtj1211
4 years ago

Don’t take any notice of this incompetent, corrupt, criminal a**hole.

Just have a mass campaign of Statewide Civil Disobedience, marching on City Hall with banners proclaiming: ‘Ignorant, incompetent and evil. Leave, leave today and never come back!’

DanClarke
DanClarke
4 years ago

plus, those rings they are holding are signalling that you can’t depend on your friends hand to hold, as we used to, or your teacher, to keep you safe, just a coloured plastic ring or a plastic face covering.

sjonesy1999
sjonesy1999
4 years ago

You would think dangerous Herberts like this would do a little research. Masks dont work and neither does the drug treatment.

mka1221
4 years ago

The only ones with ‘egg on their faces’ during this period have been hysterical lunatics that have not only made wild assumptions as to the course of this virus but also have repeatedly called for restrictions despite overwhelming evidence of their limited or downright nonexistent effect.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  mka1221

Anyone with any sense would avoid them like the plague from here on in and do the opposite of what they are recommending.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago

Words escape me. In these circumstances, I think sticks and stones are required.

Parents and kids alike need to physically beat the man from office. They don’t teach THAT in school.

But something tells me half the parents there will be in favour of this hell.

Londo Mollari
4 years ago

This is abuse as bad as the deliberate confusing of kids over gender identity and sexuality.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-03-18/child-abuse-i-just-want-them-stop-transing-children

Sinor
Sinor
4 years ago

The more of this sort of stuff I hear about the more I think we need to have a Global purge of all the hysterical idiots . And by purge I am thinking along the lines of the same named film . We need to start a list including all WEF members ,Common purpose shrills, local and National government offenders plus all other idiots encountered so far .
They are outnumbered by us . .
If we do not fight back soon we are all screwed forever .

crisisgarden
4 years ago
Reply to  Sinor

Yes, like an FBI Most Wanted list.

Occams Pangolin Pie
4 years ago
Reply to  Sinor

Disband all these supranational organisations starting with UN, WHO, NATO, WEF, CIA, DARPA, NIAID, NIH, FIFA, IKEA, secret organisations of every stripe, the cubs, beavers, freemasons, Slimmers World, WI, BMA, Royal Society, Tufty Club, Club of Rome, Prince Charles’ toothpaste angels… Every single one disbanded – bish, bash bolsh.
Actually could we hang on to the Tufty Club, just lose the weasels?

Sinor
Sinor
4 years ago

Spot on.I was worried about the Tufty club until your final sentence..lol
On a more serious note I have over the last couple of years become much more concerned about all these self elected supranational organisations that our Government seems to bow to but we have no idea exist .Gates should most definitely be at the head of the list .

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Sinor

I was almost sick to my stomach this morning seeing all the world leaders and the former UK PMs calling for a Nuremberg type trial of Putin for Crimes against Humanity and genocide etc etc.

Leaving aside whatever crimes Putin has committed – these very same people calling for a Nuremberg style show trial for him (apparently the International Criminal Court has some “limitations” so only a show trial will do it seems) have committed acts against their own populations over the course of the last 2 years which could be considered to be democide and possibly also genocide and certainly crimes against humanity and don’t in any way see the total hypocrisy in their calling for a Nuremberg event for Putin.

Jo Starlin
4 years ago

These creatures are utterly Satanic, and should be driven back to Hell. Today.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Jo Starlin

Here ya go!

Email: c.whitty@nhs.net.

New Yawk is a long way away, London is a bit closer to home.

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

Have you emailed him, Mr Fox?

crisisgarden
4 years ago

Lord knows what this will do to the children unlucky enough to be on the receiving end of this. Incredible damage and, I imagine, a very dangerous and illogical generation who don’t know or understand emotions. It’s the stuff of dystopian science fiction, (like so much else these days!)
📝 Dr Ashwin Vasan

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The Dystopian Future is here!

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huxleypiggles
4 years ago

I don’t mean this in the colloquial sense, but this “scientist and doctor” is not fit to be working, he is not fit to be a parent and quite simply he is insane. A severe and permanent danger to humanity.

This bloke should be taken out and…

Fraser Nelsons Underpants
Fraser Nelsons Underpants
4 years ago

More proof, as if it were needed, that a lot of so-called “experts” are just thick. They’ve acquired a very narrow set of knowledge without ever learning how to use their brain. I mean seriously, just how stupid is this idiot?

Emerald Fox
4 years ago

You will have to look at his bank accounts & statements to see how stupid he is:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ashwin-vasan-676a088

Life is a journey; are we there yet?
Life is a journey; are we there yet?
4 years ago
Reply to  Emerald Fox

All those high powered jobs but he can’t understand that masks don’t work.

I have come to the conclusion that it is some sort of social/ethnic cleansing that is going on in New York and possibly California. By making life so unpleasant (taking a leaf from Macrons book) for people who don’t want to comply they leave, it will mean only the ‘compliant’ remain.

FrankFisher
4 years ago

Well “as a scientist” I’m sure he can provide evidence for the benefit of masks against Covid then?

TSull
TSull
4 years ago
Reply to  FrankFisher

He isn’t a scientist. He wouldn’t know real science if it was staring him in the face. At most he is a medic, and more often than not medics are little more than pharmaceutical sales reps.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  TSull

He has this position now:

Commissioner of HealthNYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Anyone know what the salary for it is? Perks & expenses?

Occams Pangolin Pie
4 years ago

“Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?”
Certainly we have, none more so than in New York.

But for balance, I would say of Mr Anthony Fauci
(and his cartel chums)
as the narrative continues its free fall (self?) demolition:
“Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him,
like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”

Beowulf
Beowulf
4 years ago

Is the NHS any better? Yesterday I went to my local NHS clinic to collect some hearing-aid batteries for my wife and as usual I was unmasked (there was a notice on the door that everybody MUST be masked, but I have exempted myself). It was clear that the receptionist sitting behind a Perspex screen, in front of which was a table and a taped barrier in front of the table, was not comfortable with my lack of face covering and was, to say the least, a bit prickly. Sliding the batteries to me (only half of what would normally be issued – apparently there’s a shortage) across the table, I was dismissed without the usual pleasantries.

How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! Oh brave new world, That has such people in’t.”

Julian
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

I’m trying to find an optician that doesn’t ask for face coverings. At this point I’d rather give my business to someone who has dropped it all than argue the toss about “exemption”.

My current optician gave me some old soap about “we’re still under amber on the advice of the NHS”. Ridiculous people. Another I emailed said they didn’t have any covid restrictions but you did need to take a temperature test and wear panties on your face.

beancounter
beancounter
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

If you fancy a trip to north Cornwall come to mine. She told me in no uncertain terms at my contact lens test last November that it is all “bollocks”. She said she had been seeing patients inches apart from their faces for months and hadn’t died.

Nymeria
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Mine was perfectly willing to see me without all the nappy nonsense. Midlands area.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

“Midlands area.”

That narrows it down a bit.

Jess
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Julian, I had an eye test at my local Specsavers last week. Their website demands muzzles; sign on the door demands muzzles; all staff and the optician were muzzled and on entry I was asked if I had one. Said no thanks and no more was said.

Dispiriting but the test was polite and efficient enough, if lacking joie de vivre.

primesinister
primesinister
4 years ago
Reply to  Julian

I had a morning slot at the opticians, until i told them i wouldn’t be muzzed, then it was oh sorry you will have the last appointment of the day because we will have to fumigate the place, her exact words, I told them to ……off.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

(only half of what would normally be issued – apparently there’s a shortage)”

possibly because they have had to literally burn £8billion’s worth of extra or sub-standard PPE.

NHS procurement is absolute rubbish on every level but does it ever get a reform?? no.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago

“I think it’s indefinite at this point,” Dr. Ashwin Vasan said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in Queens. “People who have tried to predict what’s going to happen in the future in this pandemic have repeatedly found egg on their face, as they say, and I’m not going to do that here today.”

(My bold)

1. This itself is a prediction. He is predicting that, as a consequence of ‘masking’ other people’s children, he will be ensuring their ‘safety’, post hoc, ergo propter hoc be damned.

2. The fact that face coverings have been shown to be useless, both prior to and during the last 2 years, means absolutely nothing to this lunatic. He doesn’t care. He has his dogma and he’ll not be separated from it.

3. On (2), the Face Nappy Fanatics have had yoke on the boat for the last 2 years, and this deranged specimen is addressing a mirror.

Moderate Radical
4 years ago

Whoops. *yolk

sophie123
4 years ago

Any parent with a conscience would leave New York, right now.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  sophie123

Wouldn’t it be simpler to just get rid of this quack? Why should people move from their homes because of a weirdo like this?
That’s a bit like saying posters in Wales should leave Wales because Drakeford is running the show.

Milo
Milo
4 years ago
Reply to  sophie123

They need a good dose of Ron de Santis.

Funny how that on the same continent – in one state the masking up can be derided and rightly so as “pure theatre” and in another they want to have it indefinitely.

Hester
Hester
4 years ago

frankly such a cruel inhumane man should have his children removed from him as heaven knows what else he subject’s them to for their protection.

Judy Watson
Judy Watson
4 years ago

He is supposed to be a Doctor of medicine!!!
He is nothing more than a criminal.

Masking anyone is bad but CHILDREN!! This is deplorable

PaulMac66
PaulMac66
4 years ago

If he believes masks work then he really will be putting his children’s lives in danger. I’m guessing he’s never heard of immune deficiency which is strange considering he’s supposed to be a man of science.

Dame Lynet
Dame Lynet
4 years ago
Reply to  PaulMac66

‘Science’ to too many medics is entirely flexible – it’s closely connected to financial gain, notwithstanding the effects on others, even his own children.

That picture chills my blood.

PaulMac66
PaulMac66
4 years ago
Reply to  Dame Lynet

Mine too.

Rogerborg
4 years ago

Inculcating fear and unquestiong obedience to the cult.

I have no doubt that this man is a paedophile who should be solved in order to protect children. Evidence, you ask? Oh, I don’t have any evidence. I just believe it. It’s my truth.

The exact same principle that he’s applying.

lorrinet
lorrinet
4 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

Oh how sick I am of this ‘truth’ nonsense!
There is no MY truth, there is no YOUR truth, no THEIR, HIS, HER truth!
There is only TRUTH, to which most on the left are strangers, it seems.

Menckenitis
4 years ago

Applying the usual credibility checks…

1) Where was this person before? He taught at Columbia University and practised medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital. So far so good.
2) Check for donations from the Gates of Hell. Columbia University received
US$ 243,406,799 between 1998 and 2020 for ‘health’ related work. Ugh Ugh.
3) Does this person look like someone from whom you would take health advice? You might want to check his BMI.

So far, Dr Vasan, you have scored zero on the credibility index, but a massive 10 on the ‘lacking moral compass’ index.

Thank you Dr Vasan for taking part in ‘Who Wants to Be a Pharma Millionaire”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbs5PDh6oJk

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