NJ Gov. Murphy Can’t Cite Data Showing School Mask Mandates Worked
IAN HANCHETT7 Feb 2022On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) discussed the state’s plan to lift mask mandates in schools. Murphy defended the decision to impose the mandate in the first place, but couldn’t cite any data showing the mandates worked and that the numbers in states like New Jersey that had school mask mandates were different from states that didn’t.
Host Jake Tapper asked, “Have you seen evidence that these mask mandates have been necessary, that the spread and mortality rates in states where they didn’t have mask mandates were far worse than in places where they did have mask mandates like New Jersey?”
Murphy responded, “Yeah, I mean, New Jersey is clearly the place I know the best, and God bless our precious kids, no matter where they are, please, God, they stay healthy and stay alive. There’s no question that masking in our schools since the beginning of the school year has been a very smart public health step. . . .
. . . Tapper then followed up, “Yeah, but have you seen data that definitively proves that these mask mandates have worked? I mean, the numbers you just presented are impressive. But are they different from the numbers in states where they didn’t have mask mandates?” . . .
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/02/07/nj-gov-murphy-cant-cite-data-showing-school-mask-mandates-worked/
The answer to the question is that no such data exists. Yet the ones who questioned it from Day One are the ones who were demonized for not following the 'science'.
