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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Poor poor children. What a truly fucking horrible World they are being brought up in. It breaks my heart.
Breaks my as well.. and makes me spitting angry too..
It literally makes me want to VOMIT whenever I see kids wearing masks!
Masking children is child abuse.
It is. And it makes the desires of the person who is pushing this diktat decidedly suspicious.
Both evil and idiocy truly do stalk this planet in the guise of people such as the jerk mentioned above.. Dr. Ashwin Vasan..
Hideous. What an utter scumbag. But that’s the build back better world.
Just refuse to comply. If 100% of parents refuse to comply, the diktat is dead.
BINGO
They can start one parent at a time: do not wait for the others; the others are waiting for you.
Correct! RESIST DEFY DO NOT COMPLY!!!
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.
I really can’t imagine why the parents don’t just do that. They can’t ALL be abusive. Are they THAT cowed?
There is irrefutable evidence that being mentally ill is a requirement for any position in national or local government in all Countries.
Mainly, but not exclusively the USA.
Most definitely the UK.
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.
He is a child abuser and there is no other word for it.
But it makes one wonder what part the mother of his children is playing in this kind of abuse.
And HIS children taken away from him, he’s irresponsible and a menace.
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!
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.
He’s neither a ‘scientist’ nor a ‘doctor’. A scientist evaluates evidence and the evidence is absolutely clear: masks do zero for children. Zero.
The masks don’t do anything for anyone.
Only profits for the manufacturer
He is a doctator.
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.”
Child abuse.
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!’
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.
You would think dangerous Herberts like this would do a little research. Masks dont work and neither does the drug treatment.
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.
Anyone with any sense would avoid them like the plague from here on in and do the opposite of what they are recommending.
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.
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
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 .
Yes, like an FBI Most Wanted list.
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?
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 .
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.
These creatures are utterly Satanic, and should be driven back to Hell. Today.
Here ya go!
Email: c.whitty@nhs.net.
New Yawk is a long way away, London is a bit closer to home.
Have you emailed him, Mr Fox?
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
The Dystopian Future is here!
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…
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?
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
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.
Well “as a scientist” I’m sure he can provide evidence for the benefit of masks against Covid then?
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.
He has this position now:
Commissioner of HealthNYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Anyone know what the salary for it is? Perks & expenses?
“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.”
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.”
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.
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.
Mine was perfectly willing to see me without all the nappy nonsense. Midlands area.
“Midlands area.”
That narrows it down a bit.
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.
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.
“(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.
(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.
Whoops. *yolk
Any parent with a conscience would leave New York, right now.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
‘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.
Mine too.
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.
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.
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
######## THINK CLEARLY>>>ASK QUESTIONS>>>EXPOSE CORRUPTION ########
This man is absolutely insane … so how does he account for places like Sweden where there has never been any mandatory mask-wearing for adults let alone children? This madman and many like him who have caused untold misery on other peoples lives need stringing-up for crimes against humanity. Evil beyond belief.
It’s foul.
My worry is the whole masking thing was about de-humanising. Makes it easier to abuse people and not see them as fellow humans. And this to children too.
Now we have demonising of Putin and Russia – makes it easier to justify killing the enemy. Ukraine is a complex situation none of which has been explained on MSM. We are not without blame, the West has done things that helped bring about these event, there are Ukrainian Nazis and there are Ukrainian Russians and there has been fighting and bad feeling within Ukraine since the fall of the USSR. This is not a Hollywood movie with the good guys wearing white vs the bad guys in black..
I hear many voices urging escalation. I wonder how many will think themselves virtuous and clever watching their children vomit with radiation poisoning before their organs start to break down – assuming they’re not vaporised.
All assuming this is not a premeditated plan by the WEF.
I am not religious but the only word that explains the behaviour of many people and leaders currently is demonic or possessed.
Children just should not be allowed out of their homes, where they should be confined entirely to the ground floor (stairs are a risk).They should be forbidden to enter the kitchen, and going in the garden is so fraught with danger, from the doorstep, the poisonous plants, the insects and the possibility of being attacked by a rabied pigeon that it is totally proscribed.
Better still, don’t have kids – have you heard about the dangers of childbirth?
They should not be allowed trousers (pants in the USA) as a substantial number die each year putting on and taking off – true, believe it or not!
That quack “health commissioner” needs to be fired on the spot, yesterday. Out of a cannon, with NO HELMET!
Ask him a direct question, and watch and see how he dodges it. If it DUCKS like a QUACK….
I see what you did there, at first I thought you’d got your ducks and quacks in the wrong order.
Yet another immigrant sticking it to the natives.
I’m sorry but since when did health commissioners’ remit become ruling by diktat? Non-compliance would put an end to this charlatan’s circus pretty sharpish
I have to think that for the next quarter century democratic societies are going to have their hands full identifying and removing all the autocratic and sociopathic idiots like Vasan that have infested positions of control in our bureaucracies. Time to use Kunlangeta
I really feel for these poor children. Surely rational parents will not accept this nonsensical edict?
Masks are about as useful as a fishnet umbrella in a thunderstorm.
That’s a new one. Jolly good!
Yes, like that one!
Lamppost for Ashwin Vasan, please!
It is a reiteration of what we have learned over the last two years and shouldve known long before. Our entire ruling class, its lawyers, administrators, scientists and seemingly teachers too are all operating on the level of fear. The very structures that we have built have been built on the labour of those most acquiescent to fear and now we reap the bitter harvest. We failed to remain truly vigilant. The best thing you can do is to understand this now and then move forward on the basis of this understanding.
can’t we lock the politicians on a desert island? it would make life more pleasurable, just saying.
Scientist? Really? And where is the appropriately control grouped proper study to show masks do anything? Further more, how many under 5s without serious health conditions die with/from Covid in the whole US? Bet you won’t get to your toes sir. This man should be banned from public service and anything to do with health for life, because he believes in voodoo essentially. Thank God the masks are gone (about 10% I observe). I’d like a law passed to ban the mandate until true clinical study shows it makes more than marginal difference.
Under 5s? He should be jailed for child abuse!
“This man should be banned from public service and anything to do with health for life, because he believes in voodoo”
Ashwin Vasan and the Temple of Doom!
Plenty of these witch doctors in the NHS too!
Ashwin Vasan. It’s good to put a face to the name to see what you’re dealing with.
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
It’s even worse than you say, Will. Young children are actually more likely to be harmed by the gene-changing jabs than they are by the wretched virus.
Someone has to get to people like this. If logic can’t persuade them to shut their mouths, something else must be used.
I went into London yesterday for the Worldwide Freedom rally. 90% unmasked on both train in and on tube. One man and one man only insisted on having his mask on inside the pub. He took it off between swigs!! Absolute tit.
This maniac must surely know that the real reason masks are useless is that the eyes remain exposed, probably the most receptive of all orifices for a virus to enter the body
“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.”
Just proves how ignorant and dangerous these self-appointed, so-called experts are. He sounds like a deeply stupid and cruel person and there’s too many like him.
I totally agree with the comments below. It is sickening and evil beyond imagination. Every single parent (and grandparent) in NYC should take to the streets to demonstrate. And they should not comply: if all children turned up at school unmasked, they could hardly send them all home (but of course there are probably the few who will continue to comply).
Was he trained in Sturg -eon land by any chance?
The USA is a big country. There are so many other places to live. Vote with your feet. Move away from places that insist on draconian measure forever.
Time for resistance to take over.
Masking children is child abuse. Large chunks of the medical profession have fallen victim to mass hysteria.
It seems that the New York Health Commissioner likes publicity and knows diddly squat about matters medical. An interesting combination for his job and par for the course in the UK. I wonder what questions were asked in his interview?!
This person should be stripped of his medical license and of the custody for his children and be admitted to a lunatic asylum ASAP.
There is no other way to deal with him and such people anymore.
I’d simply have to move to a new state. I find it physically abhorrent seeing children in masks – like someone’s kicked me j the stomach.
What I don’t understand is why are the majority ok with this policy especially when it’s out of line with the other states.
The neurotic paternalists can’t play daddy and mummy with adults any more so they are going down the age range. Just like Sturgeon and her public health panic merchants here in Scotland,it not about masks or the other ineffective and poorly evidenced NPI’s. its all about their need fir control. The NY guy hiding behind his status, doesn’t want the endemic to be seen in proportion. They want to blow up and magnify the threat because they don’t want to lose their status as our protectors.
This man, who belongs – I assume but can’t be bothered to check – to the left. He must know the truth about these matters so the only remaining explanation is that he is doing this on purpose. I am angry.
This individual should be charged with child abuse.