Posted on 02/08/2022 6:38:53 PM PST by lightman
Amid a growing clamor to lift school mask mandates, the head of the nation’s largest teachers union said Tuesday that a rollback should hinge on student vaccination rates...
“At what point do we just say, ‘Okay, it’s time to get rid of the masks’?” asked host Willie Geist after showing Weingarten a copy of Tuesday’s New York Post front page on the matter. “Isn’t there enough science available already?”
While the governors of Connecticut, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Delaware have announced an end to school mask mandates, Weingarten remained circumspect.
“The real question becomes, how can we make sure people can plan for it?” she asked. “And what are the measures so everybody knows — so it doesn’t feel like it’s based upon politics, it feels like it’s based upon making sure there is no transmission in school?”
But citing a “mounting” mental health crisis among kids, panelist Dr. Lucy McBride called for more urgency in discarding mask requirements.
“We cannot wait longer to think about lifting restrictions that are causing more harm than doing good,” McBride said.
As she spoke, a graphic showed climbing rates of suicide attempts, eating disorders, depression and anxiety among kids and teens.
“Here is the plain truth,” she said. “There is no convincing evidence in the real world that masking children in schools makes a significant difference in transmission in schools.”
When pressed as to the growing list of states moving ahead with a mandate scrap, Weingarten said she backed the specific approach taken by Massachusetts.
“I like what Massachusetts has done because what they’ve said is that by a school-by-school basis, they said if there’s 80 percent vaccination rates, then the schools can lift the mandates,” Weingarten said....
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But then "community spread" was added into the metric and the masks remain.
GOALPOST moving!
How ‘bout NO.
How ‘bout - you find another job.
I guess he didn’t get the memo. Vaccines and masks don’t work.
go to hell willie mengle!
This whole thing is such a farce.
What does that have to do with science? Masks don’t work.
Read that the EUA will continue if kids have to get vaxed.
Pfizer pay off the teacher's union too?
Neither the masks nor the (so called) "vaccination" prevent spreading the virus. The "vaccine" does not prevent infection, hospitalization or death. SO! What does it do?
Reduces the response of the bodies natural immune system. And there is evidence those with the vaccine get sicker than those who are un vaxed.
It is time the Left's lies are exposed and this ends. Period.
The shots are NOT "vaccines" and no child benefits from taking it.
Just as there is no benefit to wearing a mask!
There needs to be a criminal investigation into the finances of the national teachers unions’ leadership to see if there were any sudden occurrences of unearned great wealth.
My college freshman son is both vaxxed AND boosted per Cal State requirement. And yet he is still masked indefinitely in his college classrooms. The goalposts always move.
Why not just demand the teachers get vaxxed?
After all, the vaxxes work, don’t they?
And if they don’t, then what’s the point of insisting the kids get vaxxed with a vax that doesn’t work for them either?
All you have then is a group of people vaxxed with a vaccine that doesn’t do anyone any good.
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What’s good about forcing people to submit to a “vaccine” that doesn’t protect you from the illness and has a plethora of adverse reactions?
Teachers aren’t doctors.
Mask rollback should hinge on if any kids show up. Time to take a groundhog break and not show up until COVID is over. F the schools and teachers unions!
All they are saying is that its vanilla flavored. Tomorrow, chocolate.
Has this idiot not been watching the news from Canada the last couple of days?
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