Posted on 01/31/2022 2:41:20 PM PST by lightman
House Republicans are challenging the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s COVID-19 guidelines for children, including mask requirements in school.
Led by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), the lawmakers penned a letter to CDC Director Rochelle Walensky calling on her to roll back recommendations that children wear masks, citing the harms to mental health.
Their letter asks Walensky to hold a briefing with Republicans on the House Oversight Committee by Feb. 7 to explain why the CDC continues to recommend mask-wearing in schools.
“There is no question, as we enter the third year of this pandemic, CDC’s guidelines and policies have failed to factor in—let alone prioritize—children’s social, emotional, and educational development,” the GOP lawmakers wrote in their letter. “In fact, CDC is undermining its own credibility as it continues to jeopardize an entire generation’s development.”
They further noted that teenagers and younger children “are experiencing a mental health crisis of historic proportions” amid pandemic restrictions, citing a recent U.S. Surgeon General warning that “suicide attempts have risen sharply for adolescents.”
The GOP House members also targeted mask guidelines for children aged 2 and older by saying they are hindering childhood development and don’t align with mask requirements elsewhere.
The letter further noted that the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control recommends against primary school children wearing masks in class, and they added that the World Health Organization (WHO) says that children under 6 shouldn’t be required to wear them, either.
“Many of America’s peer nations around the world—including the U.K., Ireland, all of Scandinavia, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Italy—have exempted children, with varying age cutoffs, from wearing masks in classrooms with no evidence of an uptick in school outbreaks in those countries relative to schools in the U.S.,” they further argued.
Throughout the pandemic, a number of studies have shown that children have an exceptionally low risk of dying or developing severe disease from COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, as compared with other age groups. Data suggest that individuals who are elderly and have preexisting conditions are most at risk from the virus.
Currently, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, and Washington require most individuals to wear masks in indoor public places with some caveats. However, many states last year eased or eliminated mask orders, while 11 states have not imposed mandates at any point during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The collectivists have many reasons for masks.
None of them are good.
“There is no question, as we enter the third year of this pandemic, CDC’s guidelines and policies have failed to factor in—let alone prioritize—children’s social, emotional, and educational development,” the GOP lawmakers wrote in their letter. “In fact, CDC is undermining its own credibility as it continues to jeopardize an entire generation’s development.”
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A dull, unquestioning child is a future Dem voter.
With the exception of Senator Ron Johnson and Congressman Rand Paul, seems to me the DC GOPe has been fairly quiet about vaccine mandates impacting private sector employees, military personnel, and the CMS Medicaid/Medicare regs affecting healthcare workers. Interesting that now in this election year they are willing to do something about mask mandates.
Wonder if I followed the money, I might find a campaign contributions connection...How much money is there is mask manufacture vs. vaccine manufacturer??
We’ve got to get rid of mandatory masks for good. If some little pussies want
to keep sucking on their own c02 then that’s fine.
And they will continue to fight the mask mandates with ever increasing tough rhetoric until the day they become a majority, then they will instantly drop it like O’BungholeCare
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