Friday 13 May 2022 03:02 PM NYC parents DEMAND Mayor Eric Adams meet with them about toddler mask mandate trends now
Parents frustrated with New York City's prolonged mask mandate for children under five have demanded Mayor Eric Adams meet with them in-person after he's blown them off multiple times while attending parties and rubbing elbows with celebrities.
More than 200 parents of children attending the city's schools signed a letter on Thursday demanding Adams and his health commissioner, Ashwin Vasan, hold a sit-down with them to discuss the mandate, The New York Post reported.
'We write this letter because our hundreds of phone calls and emails, and our direct requests for meetings, have gone unanswered,' the parents wrote.
'We are now publicly requesting a meeting, by May 17, with both Mayor Eric Adams and Commissioner Ashwin Vasan to discuss NYC's Toddler Mask Mandate.'
The boiling point for parents comes more than a month after Adams was set to lift the mandate but instead kept it in place despite a state judge striking down the restriction.
More than 200 parents of children attending New York City schools signed a letter on Thursday demanding Mayor Eric Adams and his health commissioner meet with them over the stay on mask mandates for children under 5
The frustrated parents says their calls have been ignored by the mayor, who was set to lift the restriction on April 4 but instead opted to extend it. Pictured, parents protesting outside City Hall last month over Adam's decision to keep the mandate in place
Adams, who has been partying and rubbing shoulders with celebrities while the mandate stays, said he would lift it when the 'it is safe to do so,' despite studies showing that young children are not at a serious risk to COVID. Adams (left) is pictured with Cara Delevingne at the new One Vanderbilt skyscraper on March 28
In a statement on Thursday, Adams claimed he would be willing to lift the mandate only when 'the science says it is safe to do so,' despite studies showing that young children are not at a serious risk to COVID-19.
'My team of health experts and I will continue to evaluate the data, day after day, and we will continue to communicate with New Yorkers with additional updates,' the mayor said.
Parents, however, want in on that conversation and to be briefed on how exactly the city was going about the decision.
'We want to review the city's analysis of how the benefits of covering the faces of babies who are still in diapers outweighs the harms,' read the letter. 'We want to know why our young children continue to be masked even as every other resident of this
