Mask madness in the schools

 Washington Examiner Editorial:

The great absurdity of our time is that schools, the safest place when it comes to the coronavirus, have been turned into mandatory mask zones all over the country, even at times when known superspreader vectors such as the subways in New York City, Black Lives Matter protests and violent riots, bars, and restaurants have gone completely unregulated.

When Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin put pen to paper for his first acts in office, it was a breath of fresh air in a state that had long been suffering from an acute case of nanny-statism.

Parents, the ruling Democrats had held, are not capable of raising their own children and therefore should have no say in their education. And those children needed to be overprotected from a virus that the data demonstrate poses them negligible risk. The fact is there is absolutely no scientific justification for making children under the age of 12 wear masks for seven hours a day at school. This is why the World Health Organization does not recommend mask mandates for children and European countries do not impose such mandates.

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I suspect the Democrats were going along with the teachers' unions on this mask madness.   There is no mask mandate for kids in school in Texas or Florida and there is no evidence of a superspreader event in either of these large states.  If kids want to wear masks that is their business and their parents' business but not the governments.'

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