The protest was the just latest example of the vehement pushback from Big Apple parents who want City Hall to do away with the regulation on youngsters, given  local plummeting COVID-19 rates and high vaccination levels among the much more vulnerable older set.

 “[The mandate] is not following the science. This is making a mockery of the science. This is playing us for fools,’’ said rally-goer Daniela Jampel, a 38-year-old mother of three, including a 4-year-old in public pre-K, from Washington Heights.

“New York state recognizes the science. Everywhere else in New York state — 10 miles away in Nassau County, 10 miles away in Westchester County — toddlers are allowed to take off their masks along with their older brothers and sisters,’’ she said.

But  “our mayor and our new health commissioner tell us it’s not safe for toddlers to take off their masks,” Jampel told The Post at the rally.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/20/parents-rally-against-nyc-mask-mandates-for-kids-under-4/