NYC Health Overlords Refuse to Free the Faces

CLAY: I know that a lot of you are listening in New York City, and, again, we have to continue to fight this craziness and this absurdity because it’s not going to completely vanish forever. In fact, the nation’s largest transit system, New York, is still insisting on mask wearing even though it’s now, at least according to the judge’s opinion down in Florida, no longer justified based on the CDC rule. The City of New York is making its own decision. Listen to this.

NY1 ANCHOR PAT KIERNAN: There is no change to the mask policy on the MTA’s busses and subways. NY1’s Louis Finley has details on that. Good morning, again, Louis. The MTA says that it still has the authority to enforce a mask mandate even without this federal mandate in place.

NY1 CORRESPONDENT LOUIS FINLEY: Yeah, Pat, the MTA is saying pump your brakes. You still have to wear a mask today and for the foreseeable future, and that’s because they say they’re following the guidelines from the New York City Health Department.

NY1 ANCHOR PAT KIERNAN: So, here’s the scorecard. The MTA remains with a mask mandate for subways and buses. Face coverings are also required on the other MTA services, meaning Metro-North and Long Island Railroad.

BUCK: Now, if you think Fauci and the CDC health overlords are overrated morons…? Ho, boy! The New York State and New York City health authorities are in a whole other league of stupid, just so you know. I mean, they are absolutely political hacks, and you may as well have a representative from the teachers unions or something deciding health policy here because it has been all politics in New York City and New York State about covid all along.

I guess we’re just gonna have to get more lawsuits going. I think that is the only way to get them to stop is to just force their hand over time, to force the bureaucracy, ’cause otherwise a lot of people in New York City… Look, I’ll say this. I heard from someone on a flight this morning, Clay. She said that she had about 90% of the people on her flight leaving New York City.

All knew that they didn’t have to wear a mask. All wearing masks on that plane. So in some parts of the country where it’s maybe a little purple, if you live in Georgia, let’s say — I’m sure this makes a huge difference. The Atlanta airport I feel like is probably very, very different than it was a day ago.

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: The LAX, JFK, the situations in those airports, it’s gonna be a little slower.

CLAY: Well, look, if you really believe masks protect you, then you have the right to wear it, and that’s something that we’ve never really fought against. It’s not like I’m saying, “Oh, the government has to tell you, ‘You can’t wear a mask.'” I think it lets us know who the losers are easier than ever before, but that’s your choice.

BUCK: Yes. I mean, just wear your mask, announce your pronouns, and we all know who you’re voting for.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: This is the way that it works in America today, and I would say it’s always been about, Clay, that we have to have a sort of shared suffering with the mask thing. That’s been the mentality. So, when they’re sitting there… Masking is uncomfortable. Something that people forgot about at some point during this, it seems.

The conversation is that no one wants to wear the stupid thing, it’s annoying, you can’t breathe well, it’s stifling your breath. It pisses me off — and I’m not the only one, obviously — and yet the people that want to mask up want you to have to do it, too, ’cause they’re sacrificing for “the common good,” so everybody has to sacrifice for the common good.

CLAY: I think that’s so significant because this crystallizes that it’s not about them wearing a mask; it’s about they have to make you wear a mask.