By Tyler Durden
In another page right out of the Gestapo playbook, the Health
Department of New York state – which is now losing thousands of
people every day due to its high taxes, draconian rules and
coercive regulations – has put out an urgent appeal for
what the NY Post called “Mask squad” staffers to go to
Rockland and Orange counties “to perform COVID-19 community
outreach and enforce mask and social distancing safety protocols
amid fears of a second wave of the virus.”
“The DOH is responsible for community outreach and enforcement
of Executive Orders and regulations related to the use of
face-coverings/masks and social distancing to prevent the spread of
COVID-19,” the department said in a Monday email to employees in
its office of health insurance programs.“Staff is needed for immediate URGENT deployment to
Orange and Rockland counties to assist with this critical public
health and community enforcement effort,” the
recruitment pitch to staffers in the agency’s office of health
insurance programs obtained by the Post said.
Staffers would volunteer to work in Orange and Rockland counties
in shifts that run from Saturday, Dec. 5 through Friday, Dec. 11
and consequent weeks through New Year’s Day. Workers who
volunteer for the Orange-Rockland mask squad will be eligible for
overtime pay.
The two counties, which both have large ultra-Orthodox Jewish
communities where some have defied safety protocols, have among the
highest coronavirus infection rates in the state. The Middletown
area of Orange had an alarming 8.16% COVID-19 infection rate as of
Saturday. The city of Newburgh in Orange had a 7.78% infection
rate, while the Orange-Monroe County border towns posted a 7.8
percent positivity rate. Rockland County’s infection rate was
5.8%.
Asking volunteers to redeploy to help address the pandemic is
not uncommon, said Health Department spokesman Gary Homes.
“It’s all hands on deck,” Holmes said, adding that
“we’re active in all counties where are there are increasing
infection rates. These aren’t the only ones.”
Holmes said DOH employees have also been redeployed to help
staff drive-through testing sites and enforce COVID-19 safety
protocols at the airports.
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Orange County Executive Steve Neuhaus welcomed state health
cavalry: “We’re on it. We got it. But you can never say
it enough and the repercussions of these numbers continuing to
climb warrant a strong message of awareness and
enforcement,” Neuhaus told The Post. He noted the state
police are also involved in educating residents and enforcing the
safety protocols.
“I met with the state police last week. They’re going to
supermarkets, department stores. They’re saying, ‘hey wear a
mask, here’s a free mask.’” He said a second wave of the
pandemic is his county is worrisome. “It’s definitely a
concerning increase as we’re starting to see coming from the
Thanksgiving gathering. We had a number of deaths over the
weekend,” Neuahus said.
“Our hospitalizations are going up. I haven’t agreed with
Governor Cuomo all this time throughout this crisis, but he’s
right on the hospital capacity. “We’re not there — we’re
about 40 or 50 percent being occupied. That is the number to watch.
It’s how many people are filling my hospitals.”
I’m bracing for an uptick now, so do I think it’s going to
be astronomical and is it going to be crippling? I hope it’s not
but we’re preparing for it. That’s why we’re on the phone
with the hospitald every week.”“It’s hard to find staff right now. That’s why we’re
constantly talking.”
Meanwhile, in the latest escalation on Monday, governor Cuomo
warned he will order the shutdown of indoor dining in New York City
restaurants if the COVID-19 infection rate and hospitalization
rates don’t stabilize, a virtual certainty… which of course is
a paradox: after all, New York City has some of the highest mask
compliance numbers in the nation, and yet it has soaring case
numbers, prompting such obvious questions as this one from Kevin
Sorbo: “If lockdowns and masks worked, we wouldn’t see the
states with the strictest mandates having the highest cases”.
Source:
Zero Hedge
Image: Anthony Freda
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New York Sends “Mask Squads” To Enforce Social Distancing In
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