Governor Murphy Calls For National Mask Mandate

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy on Sunday called for a national strategy to fight against the raging Covid-19 pandemic, including a national requirement to wear masks.

Speaking on NBC’s “Meet The Press” program, Governor Murphy said New Jersey is experiencing a small resurgence in new coronavirus infections and blamed out-of-state travelers for at least some of them.

“There was a wedding in Myrtle Beach, [South Carolina,] and we absolutely have evidence of folks who were at that wedding who came back up to New Jersey, Jersey folks who were visiting there, and we’ve got other cases that we’re running down,” Murphy said.

In calling for a national strategy against the virus, Murphy said that his state had suffered greatly from the pandemic, including more than 13,000 deaths, and that “we cannot afford to go through hell again.”

Asked about his decision to delay the reopening of indoor dining, Governor Murphy said that he sympathizes with restaurant owners who are struggling, “but the choice is either we open inside, or, based on the data that we saw, and as I said the lethality of this virus inside, or we lose people, we literally lose lives.”

The governor said that it is incumbent on the federal government to provide more direct cash assistance to restaurant and small business owners whose businesses are now faltering due to the restrictions he says he has to keep in place for the time being.

 

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16 COMMENTS

  1. I have a much better idea. Shut down the airports so these geniuses can’t fly off to Florida and come back to infect the rest of us.

  2. Why do we not hear anything about eating healthy foods – from the CDC or any other branch of gov? Wearing masks is highly controversial – it could do more harm than good. What about Vitamin C, D etc?
    The goal here is vaccines and expensive medications…
    We appreciative the good we get in general, but this is unacceptable, and naive people fall for it. Eat junk food, don’t sleep normal, don’t do exercise, but take vaccines and wear a mask.

  3. So why dont you keep your mask on Mr Governor 24/7 and keep your mouth shut? Remember how you stood proudly at that protest shoulder to shoulder with people or you forgot?How big of a hypocrite are you on expenses of thousands of people’s business’s and sanity ?! If you cared about you state’s health why were you at the protests?Why are you a hypocrite?Why don’t you enforce mask law right here in NJ before worrying about rest of America?Sick and tired of this Hungry for power dictatorship,hypocriticism, costing some of us our livelihoods and sanity .While others can do what they want.One big discarse.

  4. This Governor is so weak if he doesn’t want spread of virus he shouldn’t allow us to fly anywhere in these states that have virus. We need honest Governments and not fakers. Do not Goto NYC until Mayor refund these police. We need to show NYC Government to refund the police department. It just too dangerous to go there. We need vote for Trump not for Biden.

  5. Oh, I see, now he wants to Mandate wearing masks, because 13,000 people died in NJ.

    Uh, almost have of them died because you sent sick patients BACK into the Nursing Homes.
    We flattened the curve, that was the goal – now let ppl go on with their lives.

  6. Governor Murphy orders indoor dining to be cancelled, and he wants the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to provide cash aide to those restaurants affected??? It was HIS decision, let HIM provide the assistance. It is easy for him to lift his pen and issue an order when he does not have to pay the price for his actions.

  7. Remember BLM protests that Murph joined had nothing to with it, hey Murph what about the 10th amendment you were all for when President Trump said something about reopening and about religious freedom?

  8. Many of the people who were documented to have died from Corona virus, died from other causes but, hospitals got paid a lot of money for each Corona victim and doctors were told to just write Corona as cause of death , otherwise they would have had to do a lot more paper work for each patient. There is a lot of corruption going on and a lot of propaganda. Eat healthy, exercise and keep a positive attitude, that all helps you to stay well.

  9. Notice how our President suggests to slow down testing but the Governor of has actually stopped testing in PNC, as they may know that raising the positive testing will bring down the death rate, which is declining as we speak, not to mention that people don’t send their relatives to hospitals to maybe not get food and care anymore nor are New York and New Jersey sending positives to nursing homes, nor throwing people off oxygen to go on ventilators.
    All while seeing the many government officials support alternative minority that may have anti-american, anti-semetic and anti-parochial and anit nuclear family structure ideas in a public protests and other forums.

    • Abe-The testing site at PNC Arts Center was sponsored by the Federal Govt. (Washington). Gov. Murphy didn’t close the testing site, the feds closed it.

  10. @my2cents- have you actually filled out a death pronouncement for a covid patient?? You are so confident of your totally false information that it sounds like you have. Well I actually have. News flash: the paperwork for covid and non covid patients takes the same amount of time!! Who would’ve guessed?!
    Actually, people die from respiratory failure, meaning they stop breathing. Some people stop breathing because of pneumonia, some because of a heart attack, some because of a massive brain bleed. Are you going to tell people – well your relative had terminal cancer but they actually died of respiratory failure? No, you write the underlying cause. Same thing with covid. People don’t actually die of covid, they die of respiratory cardiac or multi system organ failure due to covid.
    Your idiocy continues. The hospitals lost money because of covid!! Which evil witch dressed in black so you picture cackling as she hands over stacks of cash for each covid death?? I can assure you, we would not be dripping sweat trying to save lives for so many weeks if dying patients were so profitable. We would just walk off with the cash and laugh our way to the banks. Actually, covid patients generally take up a private room that could have been used for two patients. (=less profit). They stay for days or weeks while the hospital gets paid per diagnosis (=less money, patients who stay one night are much more profitable). They use up a ton of resources, such as PPE, more intense nursing care, respiratory therapy, special nebulisers that don’t aerosolize the virus (=less profit). Many hospitals have a huge deficit this year due to caring for covid patients regardless of insurance or ability to pay, and are only still operating due to federal bailout money, or they’d be closing their doors.
    In conclusion, you are one very wrong person. I sincerely hope that with a twisted attitude like yours, I don’t have to care for you or your family members. I have no doubt that you would find fault with everything we work so hard to do. Please stay home and keep eating healthy and hopefully that cures you from all illnesses in the world.

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