New Hampshire goes mask-free with summer tourism expected to be 'huge'

[left-of-center2012]

The Granite State is now mask-free, with Gov. Chris Sununu telling the Herald that summer tourism will be “huge.”

“We’re the best,” he said of the vaccine rollout. “We’re among the fastest in the country for vaccine distribution.” The Republican governor — floated as a possible U.S. Senate candidate in 2022 — said that’s why he’s dropping New Hampshire’s face-covering edict, but businesses can still require masks if they want.

He said the decision is based purely on analytics and not politics. Deaths and hospitalizations are down up north, with the state averaging 445 new coronavirus cases daily and 130 people currently hospitalized. Three people died due to COVID-19 Thursday.

To date, 23.3% of New Hampshire residents have been fully vaccinated.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2021/04/15/new-hampshire-goes-mask-free-with-summer-tourism-expected-to-be-huge/

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Please Remove The "Live Free Or" Part

Actually, you can just replace the "Or" with "And"

[jimfields33]

5. At 23 percent in April, hopefully it will be 80 plus by summer.

They are getting more organized by the day with vaccine numbers. 3 million just the other day.

[Blues Heron]

2. "mask free and die"

Maine is exploding in new cases right now and they're right next door. exponential growth is funny that way. These freedumbers are nuts.

[onecaliberal]

3. I guess when you're dead there is no free living.

[MacKasey]

4. What a jerk!

New Hampshire has over 90,000 cases compare to Vermont 's 21,000.

There was a huge breakout of civic cases when people from New Hampshire came to Vermont for a soccer game they went out to eat together without masks

[Worried2020]

6. Maybe there's a freak wind anomaly blowing

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up from FL and/or TX?





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[Mopar151]

7. A Sununu

Is a blustering , gusty wind. Seems to be coming from several directions at once!

[ramen]

8. This is him positioning for the senate seat in 2022.

Sununu has been pretty ok on covid as republican governors go, but this is idiotic. Cases here are as high now as they were around Thanksgiving, when the mandate was imposed. What a dumb move, especially with his mandate to return to in-person school this coming week.