Town of Newstead requests that Erie County not enter town to enforce COVID-19 related mandates

Calls for long-term management plan

A resolution opposing Erie County and New York State’s COVID-19 emergency response was adopted by the Newstead Town Board by a vote of 4 to 1 on Monday night.

Board members recognized the Covid-19 Pandemic virus as “a widespread global endemic disease that will likely never be eradicated due to its mutations and that managing it by declaring a State of Emergency and declaring mandates every time a new variant and/or spike in cases arises must not continue, due to negative impacts on mental and societal health, residents’ rights and freedoms, and negative impacts on businesses and schools ability to cope with and manage through what will likely be regular occurrences in the coming months and years.”

(see more in December 16 issue, and in future updates)