Democratic New York State Senate candidate Danyela Souza Egorov on NYC parents protesting mask mandates.
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From force factor the 1 beets brand in america,
angry parents
gathering at new york city hall
on monday to protest our mayor,
Eric Adams, extending mask
mandates for kids under five years
old
this one day after Democrat
laughed off protesters, musical
Daniela has 4 year old son.
Her son max is still wearing a
mask.
She is fighting to drop these
mandates and she joins us now
good morning to you Daniela
good morning.
Congratulations for
getting in the race
new york, children. During the
entire pandemic.
They opened restaurants and gyms
before they opened school.
They are allowing athletes to
play.
They do not allow student
athletes who are not vaccinated
to play
now. Toddlers are the last group
that are mask mandates in new
york city.
These masks might
protect our kids from covid
thats, not even a guarantee
anymore,
its going to cause speech and
cognitive delays.
We talked to teachers, the all
all of these scooz schools and
said every kids is delayed
because of what we have gone
through.
The kids are delayed.
We still dont have enough data
to show that, but we have all
this referrals speech therapist.
They have never seen so many
kids delayed
and mothers like me can see
their kids are not getting ready
for kindergarten,
and this mayor is not following
the science that tells us that
kids need to see their teachers
mouth to learn phonics.
I know you live
downtown in new york city,
a lot of progressives a lot of
liberal ideas.
You are a Democrat running as a
Democrat
running against two people, much
more radical right.
Yes,
what are the parents
telling you as they get involved
in these races?
What families are telling me?
They want public safety,
they want a rigorous education
and they want the economy to be
back.
We need to be able to attract
investments again to be friendly
to business.
These are the three priorities
that im running for
okay,
all right
and what does the future look
like for you?
When is the race?
The primary is june 28th?
Okay,
all right!
Well, we wish all the best.
Thank you for coming on with us.
Thank you for having me.
We hope max gets to
take his mask off soon.
I cannot wait,
take them off
April. Fourth and all the parents
were disappointed when he said
seeing the numbers go up, so the.
Transcript generated on 2022-11-25.