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Pedi-masks … “Because We Care!”


Finally some reasonable data on the lunacy of mandatory face-masks in schools. Where from ? Where else but from Florida – the place, where according to the leftists, there is a “rebel governor.” A “rebel governor” in a state that at 27 new infections per 100,000 people, now has the second lowest rate of COVID-19 infection in the entire country.

Okay, okay so Florida is doing well with respect to Covid … what does that have to do with face-masks and school children?

As many of you will recall while many Florida districts refused to implement mask mandates in their schools, others stubbornly insisted upon them, even defying an order from Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to allow parental exemptions. If forcing school children to wear face-masks was really anything more than political theater by those on the left to show that they “really care,” then those counties in which the wearing of face-masks by school children was mandatory would have less Covid. Capiche!

So what does the data actually show?

The following is from a press release from DeSantis’ press secretary, Christina Pushaw:

“NEW PEDIATRIC CASES:

New COVID-19 cases for children ages 5-17 – the vast majority of the school-aged population – have decreased 79% in the month of September, in the 54 Florida counties where school districts have no masking policy or are following state law by honoring the parental opt-out rule.

For comparison, COVID-19 cases for children 5-17 in the 13 districts that imposed forced-masking in schools have decreased 77%, on average.

POSITIVITY RATES:

The 54 districts with opt-outs or no mask policy have seen an average decrease of 65% in positivity from week ending Aug. 19 (when school started) to the week ending Sep. 30.

The 13 districts that broke the law to impose forced-masking have seen an average decrease of 67%.

That is to say, the data for this school year to date shows no impact of forced masking in schools on pediatric COVID-19 prevalence. This is not surprising, since there were no statistically significant differences in case rates in forced-masking versus mask-optional schools during the 2020-21 school year in Florida.”

If any of the “we really care about the safety of children” leftists had ever visited a school classroom, perhaps they would have realized how ludicrous their premise was. But au contraire, why actually use common sense and observation when trying to prevent children from catching a virus that has never posed any statistical risk to them? Likewise the fact that school children were not a significant transmitter to adults was of no importance, because “leftists care more than the rest of us!”

10/8/21

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