ALBANY- The CDC earlier today issued new guidance stating that masks and social distancing were no longer necessary for fully vaccinated individuals indoor or outdoor in most situations. While several states immediately revised their own guidance, New York has so far kept its mandates in place, stating only that the state was taking the new guidance “under advisement.”
Governor Andrew Cuomo provided more details this afternoon about what it would take for New York to follow suit.
“You wanna get rid of the masks? Then that whole sexual harassment thing- you gotta let that go,” said the governor, referring to allegations that he made inappropriate comments, forcibly touched and/or forcibly kissed multiple women, which initiated a probe by the Attorney General’s office as well as impeachment proceedings.
Cuomo said his office is working on a landing page on the state Ethics Department website that would ask New Yorkers to log in with their State ID #, read a statement promising not to hold the governor accountable for any allegations made by women in the past, affirming that is sincerely sorry for any offense his behavior may have inadvertently caused though he “did nothing wrong,” and agreeing that any state elected officials who previously called for his resignation were merely “ambitious upstarts who sensed a moment of weakness and cynically took up the cause of a handful of confused women in the hopes they could ride their misinterpretations of innocent behavior to electoral success.” Once more than 80 percent of residents in a given county and/or state senate district and/or assembly district sign the pledge, then mask restrictions will be lifted for those areas- with one caveat.
“If you live in the districts of any of the 20 U.S. Representatives from New York and over 120 New York State legislators who have called for my impeachment, restrictions will remain in effect until those officials formally reverse their past statements,” said Cuomo.
“If you come at the king, you best not miss,” added the governor.