PHILADELPHIA — New Jersey will lift its requirement for students and school staff to wear masks, according to the New York Times. The mandate will reportedly be eliminated the second week of March. Gov. Phil Murphy’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The governor is expected to announce the new policy at a COVID-19 briefing Monday afternoon at 1 p.m. ”The overwhelming sentiment on both sides of the aisle is we want to get to a place where we can live with this thing in as normal a fashion as possible,” Murphy said last week after meeting with President Joe Biden at t…