Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) endorsed mask mandates for two-year-olds in remarks on the House floor on Wednesday, cautioning toddlers should have been “required” to mask up as coronavirus spread across the country.
He further declared parents who refused to do so engaged in “child abuse.”
“Two-year-olds should have been required to wear masks,” Nadler said. “It would be child abuse for parents not to do that because there was no vaccination available for two-year-olds.”
Nadler offered no medical or scientific research to support his argument.
He spoke after Rep. Chip Roy (R -Texas) challenged Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra for “fumbling” his response as to whether toddlers should have been masked during the pandemic.
Roy was using the example to argue for an amendment to require congressional consent before the federal government institutes a mask mandate similar to the one President Joe Biden supported for school children, as Breitbart News reported.
China Joe’s White House said that officials were not concerned about the psychological effects of forcing children to wear masks in school. https://t.co/l7UN89WlIp
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) August 8, 2021
“We watched Secretary Becerra fumbling yesterday … unable to answer the question, ‘Can you tell me, sir, whether or not it was any benefit whatsoever for two-year-old kids to be forced to wear masks?’” Roy said on the floor. “He refused to answer the question in committee because he knew full well he has no good answer to that question.”
Fox News reports Nadler’s masking edict took further criticism from those across the aisle, including Roy, who turned on the long serving New York lawmaker’s for his comments.
“I want everybody in America to understand what they just heard from the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee in the United States House of Representatives,” Roy said. “Your 2-year-old should be forced to be masked. That is what the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee just said here on the floor of the House of Representatives. That the power of the government, the full power of the federal government, should be a part of ensuring and enforcing your children, your 2-year-old child to be masked.”
Social media showed the push back from general members of the public as well.
The same people who want to mutilate and sterilize children are calling people who don’t mask toddlers “child abusers”.
— Jason Morgan (@Jasonmorgan35) June 15, 2023
I’m sure DEM Rep Jerry Nadler wishes he never said what he said… to force-mask 2yr olds in 2023!! Voters are never going back to communist type covid19 BS that DEMs continue to push!
Great job @chiproytx 👏🎥 https://t.co/Yb36cHnnI3
— Carolina Castillo (@CaroCastilloCC) June 15, 2023
Nasty Nadler thinks government should REQUIRE our 2 yr olds to wear a mask if another C19 hits
Like to see them try to put😷on my children“When we have a pandemic like covid, 2 yr olds should have BEEN REQUIRED to wear masks. It would be CHILD ABUSE for PARENTS NOT TO”
Your💭 pic.twitter.com/AYQP7hfaZj— Peach (@Gapeach_3102) June 14, 2023
Jerry Nadler thinks it’s child abuse for parents not to mask up their two year olds.
Not since “I’m afraid Guam might tip over” has there been a stupider take to come out of a congressman’s mouth. pic.twitter.com/snvTAhLnHv— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) June 14, 2023
Masks became compulsory in most U.S. states in the months after the coronavirus pandemic first began in March/April 2020.
By November U.S. governors had imposed state and regional mask mandates that had been in effect for months in 32 states, as Breitbart News reported.
