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The Somerville City Council has requested that the Board of Health consider ways to evaluate the necessity for implementing indoor mask mandates in the future.
By Jim Clark
A resolution was put forward and approved at the latest regular meeting of the Somerville City Council on Thursday, April 14, asking that the Board of Health consider setting a public standard by which to evaluate when an indoor mask mandate should be enacted at their next meeting, and consider whether the community has already met the criteria for implementing a local mask mandate.
In the official text of the resolution, co-sponsors City Councilor At-Large Willie Burnley Jr., Ward 7 City Councilor Judy Pineda Neufeld, City Councilor At-Large Charlotte Kelly, and City Councilor At-Large Jake Wilson asserted the following:
- That he COVID-19 pandemic and all variants therein have demonstrated a threat to the health and safety of Somerville residents.
- That masking indoors provides significant protection for individual and collective health, particularly for those disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, such as people who are immunocompromised.
- That other cities, such as Boston and Philadelphia, have set standards by which to determine when mask mandates should be implemented or ceased.
- That the public is not aware of any standard by which the Somerville Board of Health is determining when masking indoors should be mandatory.
- That wastewater data shows that traces of the coronavirus have more than quadrupled in our area in the last month.
The resolution was unanimously approved by the full City Council, with the exception of Ward 6 City Councilor Lance Davis, who was not present for the vote.
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This ridiculous crap needs to stop! Forcing people to wear a mask just to make the Germaphobic Hypochondriacs feel better by not being the only lunatics wearing masks!!! Nobody said you couldn’t wear one if you want but stop cramming your fears down everybody’s throats!!! Enough is enough! Keep this crap up and I will take all my business to Normal cities and towns who have realized this is killing their businesses.
LOL! Don’t you think a few more exclamation points are needed here to really make your point?
Nothing abnormal here!
Oh, and…!!!!!!!!
Everything about this guy’s crazy rant demonstrates exactly what’s going wrong in this fight against the pandemic, which is still very much a major threat to public health. The fact that regulating bodies may relax mandates for indoor masking at this time does not change the fact that the virus is still being passes around, still making people sick, and still killing many. It’s only wise for states and municipalities to plan for contingencies when indoor masking may be necessary through periods of high infection rates which could spike at any time. Kudos to the city for looking forward and not hiding their heads in the sand, as certain others do.
How is requiring masks indoors “killing businesses”? Because childish goofballs like Peter B throw tantrums and refuse to cooperate? That won’t kill a business. Certain businesses suffered and some failed when out of necessity they were temporarily closed to the public at the height of the pandemic. But we’re pretty much past that now.
Maybe people like this need to gather together in some other place, like…oh, I don’t know…maybe Florida, and let Darwinism take its course.
I’m fully behind that.
COVID-19 and its variants aren’t germs, they’re potentially deadly viruses. And pointing this out doesn’t make anyone a hypochondriac. People like this scare the hell out of me.