Although the struggle to wear masks for children is Most obvious in Florida Because Governor Ron DeSantis has decided to fight back, other states are seeing battles unfold at the local level. Parents appeared at the school board meeting to express their dissatisfaction with the leader. They continued to spit in front of objective data and forced the children to wear dirty cloth on their faces.
One of the parents who showed up was Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire, who gave a short speech (the board limited time) and hit the head directly. He explained the facts in a clear and concise way, emphasizing why this is a struggle worth fighting for for parents who are not tired of compliance.
This is my speech on the Nashville school board. In my speech, I opposed the cruel and untenable child mask rule. pic.twitter.com/Eq5IFsKyja
-Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 12, 2021
Full disclosure, I believe Walsh’s child is homeschooled, but he pays the same taxes as everyone else. In view of this, he has every right to show up and support other parents who are trying to apply some common sense to their school board.
The key point in Walsh’s video is that the school board did not provide any data to support their argument that children need to wear masks. This may be because the data does not exist. As I arranged again yesterday According to some recent data, there is no correlation between the mandatory requirements for masks and the spread of COVID-19. Since children no longer represent most of the transmission vectors of the virus, there is of course no data showing that it is a good policy for children to wear masks.
However, in order to cover their tails, school boards across the country are restoring the requirement to wear masks because it allows them to say that they are “doing something.” This is a simple method that ignores children’s needs and possible long-term effects. It is mandatory to cover all day, and it may affect them every day.
Walsh went on to provide the other side with facts, including Children’s impeccable The virus and the fact that teachers have ample opportunities to vaccinate themselves. Walsh also criticized the board of directors for never requiring masks during normal flu seasons, although in numbers, flu is more deadly for children. Continuing, he used the analogy of forcing children to wear helmets all day (a child is much more likely to die from head trauma than COVID), and pointed out that people would rightly call it abuse.
Finally, Walsh talked about the overriding issue, that these mask instructions are not intended to help children. Rather, they exist to make adults feel better about themselves. This is not a reason to force children to wear dirty, restrictive masks in school, which is why this is a war worth starting. Selfish enough. If we should “follow the science”, then let us actually do so.
