‘If You’re Not Vaccinated, Shut Up’ Baltimore Mayor Blames Unvaccinated On New Mask Mandate As Baltimore County Explains Why No New Mandates There

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Mayor Brandon Scott sounded disconnected connected those upset implicit his caller indoor disguise mandate, which goes into effect Monday morning.

“For anyone who is frustrated astir wearing a mask—and you’re unvaccinated—then look successful the mirror. It’s your responsibility that we’re going backmost to having an indoor disguise mandate,” Mayor Scott told WJZ. “If you’re not vaccinated, unopen up. Don’t complain.“

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Mayor Brandon Scott tells @KelseyKushnerTV that if you’re frustrated astir wearing a disguise and you’re not vaccinated…”look successful the mirror. It’s your responsibility we’re going backmost to having an indoor disguise mandate.” @wjz pic.twitter.com/iAl42J9ib9

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) August 6, 2021

The politician said radical request to support themselves and those astir them and noted that adjacent the vaccinated tin dispersed the Delta variant.

New COVID-19 infections successful Baltimore City are up 749% successful conscionable 1 period but deaths stay down.

In Baltimore County, leaders are holding disconnected connected an indoor disguise mandate similar those being reinstated successful Baltimore City and Prince George’s and Montgomery Counties.

“There are aggregate variables we person to enactment into place. We’ve got to look astatine it from a nationalist wellness perspective. We’ve got a look from a societal position and from a ineligible perspective,” Baltimore County Health Officer Dr. Gregory Branch told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. “There’s not immoderate peculiar fig wherever we accidental ‘When it hits that number, that’s what’s going to be.’ At this constituent present it is dynamic and ever-changing, and truthful we person to proceed to look astatine that. So we are looking astatine that, and if indispensable we would spell that way.”

No indoor disguise mandate successful Baltimore County astatine this clip but the wellness serviceman is monitoring numbers and did not regularisation it retired successful the future. @wjz pic.twitter.com/q1QYCBfwFU

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) August 6, 2021

“For Baltimore County, we are focused connected getting vaccines successful arms. That is our champion instrumentality and it’s however we debar immoderate different steps,” said Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski.

The region volition clasp vaccination clinics astatine precocious schools starting adjacent week. Less than fractional of those aged 12 to 18 present person gotten the shot.

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Baltimore County Executive says it’s captious to get much radical vaccinated; he’s speaking astatine Dundalk High this afternoon. He says this assemblage needs to summation vaccination complaint and notes astir fractional of those 12-18 who are eligible person not yet gotten the shot. @wjz pic.twitter.com/x4Auf2u4Ti

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) August 6, 2021

“With schoolhouse starting successful a fewer weeks, we indispensable summation our vaccination rates. The urgency is arsenic large arsenic it’s ever been,” Olszewski said. He noted Dundalk is lagging the region mean for vaccinations. The region volition clasp a vaccine session astatine Dundalk High School from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. connected Tuesday.

“I person respective grandchildren nether the property of 16 and I privation our young radical to beryllium protected,” said Delegate Richard Metzgar.

Baltimore County pupil Christian Thomas pleaded with his classmates to get vaccinated.

“Getting the vaccine is not making a governmental statement…but alternatively an accidental to workout a committedness to nationalist wellness and safety,” Thomas said. He and his member person done so. “We got them due to the fact that we privation to get backmost to a mean schoolhouse twelvemonth of the things we emotion to bash most,” helium said.

The U.S. Secretary of Education visited Baltimore City this week and urged vaccinations arsenic good arsenic a instrumentality to in-person acquisition and masks wrong classrooms.

Baltimore County is mandating “universal masking” successful buildings for the coming schoolhouse year.

The stakes are precocious with the unsafe Delta variant down a surge successful caller cases.

890 caller cases; positivity 3.79%; 345 radical presently hospitalized; 4 much deaths reported successful Maryland Friday #COVID19 https://t.co/eBkjpsQcwE pic.twitter.com/ffEErFbf37

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) August 6, 2021

“Take it from maine arsenic a Covid survivor. Getting the vaccine tin genuinely mean the quality betwixt beingness oregon death,” Dr. Branch said. “…That Delta variant is simply a beast, and what we’re trying to bash is forestall the adjacent one.”