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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 10:45 AM Apr 2021

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

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/



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New Hampshire goes mask-free with summer tourism expected to be 'huge' (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 OP
Please Remove The "Live Free Or" Part SoCalDavidS Apr 2021 #1
At 23 percent in April, hopefully it will be 80 plus by summer. jimfields33 Apr 2021 #5
"mask free and die" Blues Heron Apr 2021 #2
I guess when you're dead there is no free living. onecaliberal Apr 2021 #3
What a jerk! MacKasey Apr 2021 #4
Maybe there's a freak wind anomaly blowing Worried2020 Apr 2021 #6
A Sununu Mopar151 Apr 2021 #7
This is him positioning for the senate seat in 2022. ramen Apr 2021 #8

jimfields33

(18,837 posts)
5. At 23 percent in April, hopefully it will be 80 plus by summer.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 11:48 AM
Apr 2021

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

Blues Heron

(6,130 posts)
2. "mask free and die"
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 11:00 AM
Apr 2021

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

MacKasey

(1,178 posts)
4. What a jerk!
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 11:06 AM
Apr 2021

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

ramen

(862 posts)
8. This is him positioning for the senate seat in 2022.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 06:03 PM
Apr 2021

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.

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