Oddly enough no I heard rumors about that down in NYC but honestly between bail reform and antifia the authorities had enough to deal with around Albany and just about anywhere else up here was a mix of dgaf and full shutin/drive with masks.

I guess it seemed silly to demonize smoking when they’re pushing v-a-p-e-s and p-o-t.

Shooting yourself may result in low birth weight.
Shooting around others may result in second hand damage.

Smoking is back on the rise though so I guess the approach works. 🙄

Did NYS impose road blocks to upstate during the pandemic?

That’s the kind of power they can abuse by declaring a bullshit ‘public health crisis’, I sure hope Gottlieb et. all are jumping on this… 🙁

” So much so, that it’s now a public health crisis.”

This isn’t good, since declaring a ‘public health crisis’ gives them the ability to bypass the congress.

That’s exactly what they did in the recent pandemic, remember how fun that was, with all their little ‘decrees’ they just rammed down our throats? People being literally subject to arrest for violating public health orders like no travel?

At least for pandemic era NY it was just the actual news a few months to weeks (sometimes days) in advance.