Her absurd overreaction to the mild Omicron variant left egg on the face of New York Governor Kathy Hochul. Rather than wipe it off, she is ratcheting up the Covid tyranny further still, decreeing that privately owned public places like restaurants and stores must demand customers wear Covid muzzles or present proof of vaccination:

The new mandate will take effect Monday and applies statewide. It will remain in force until Jan. 15, when it could be extended, officials said.

Maybe it won’t be extended. Maybe Covid will be completely eradicated by then. Maybe pigs will grow wings and fly. Maybe Hochul will stumble upon a copy of the US Constitution and convert from liberalism to Americanism.

Businesses that fail to enforce the rules could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, including a maximum fine of $1,000 for each violation.

Adding insult to injury, Hochul claims to be inflicting this on behalf of the small businesses against which Covid tyrants like herself have been waging a war of extermination for the past 2 years.

“I have to protect people but also the economy. I want to make sure that the little businesses that were hurt so hard during the pandemic in a shutdown — resulting in their loss of income, [and] the loss of income of all the people who work for them,” said Hochul at an unrelated event in Manhattan, after announcing the mandate. “We have to prevent that from happening.”

Who will protect both the people and the economy from Democrats like Hochul?

On a tip from Wiggins.

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