Gov. Lamont recommending Connecticut statewide school mask mandate end Feb. 28, leaving decisions to

[George II]

Source: Hartford Courant

Full Headline: Gov. Lamont recommending Connecticut statewide school mask mandate end Feb. 28, leaving decisions to local officials

For the first time since the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Connecticut children will likely soon be permitted to go maskless in schools and childcare settings.

Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday that he will recommend the state lift its mask mandate as of Feb. 28, leaving decisions on whether to require masks up to local school districts.

“I think that we’re at a very different place than we were six months ago,” Lamont said, citing the prevalence of vaccines, booster shots and N95 masks. “Certainly a very different place than we were a year ago.”

Though Lamont’s emergency powers are set to expire next week, the state legislature is expected to extend certain orders he has signed during the pandemic, including one concerning masks in schools and childcare settings.


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[CTyankee]

1. I like governor Lamont and believe he is a good guy for CT.

I'm in a kind of heaven with Biden as President, a woman of color his VP, a fine governor in Lamont, and two wonderful Senators and a woman representative who have my strongest admiration and support!

[George II]

2. We're about the bluest of the blue states. I moved up here in 1988, had to wait for more than....

...20 years for a Democratic Governor. We had one republican Senator (Weicker, who would be a Democrat today), and I believe two republicans in the House (?)

Now we have ALL state-wide offices occupied by Demcrats, two Democratic Senators and all five Representatives are Democrats (two are women)

Yes - heaven!

[CTyankee]

3. I just watched Gov. Lamont give his yearly address to the CT legislators. It was wonderful.

In the past 10 years or so I only remember one significantly BAD thing that happened: Sandy Hook. Emotionally I was nearly flattened. How could this happen in my state?

I consider moving here was the best thing I ever did (except have my 3 kids with a former husband). I married a wonderful man and moved to a state I would thrive in.

Things are just BETTER in blue states.