While Schools Across the Country Get Rid of Mask Mandates, Fauci Claims It's 'Risky'

Townhall.com ^ | 17 February A.D. 2022 | Rebecca Downs

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The tide is turning as schools across the country are empowering parents to make the decision of whether their children will wear masks in the classroom, rather than mandating them. This includes Virginia, where Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) on Wednesday signed SB 739, which includes a provision on optional masking. Even more liberal states, such as New Jersey, are lifting their school mask mandates. Yet Dr. Anthony Fauci, medical director for the NIAID who serves as President Joe Biden's chief medical advisor, said it was "risky" in a clip that CNN aired on Thursday morning.

The comments came during a Wednesday night conversation moderated by Chuck Todd that occurred between Fauci, and Dr. Francis Collins, who until late last year had been the head of the NIH. Fauci and Collins were awarded the 2022 Elliot L. Richardson Prize by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA).

A question from the audience referenced lifting mask mandates for children and the effect that that would have. Todd himself expressed concern that we would ultimately come to claim that the lifting of mandates had happened too soon.

Fauci shared that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has determined that "given that there is so much transmission going on right now, it is really not prudent to pull masks off of children." He went on to acknowledge, though, that "we could get lucky, because the trajectory is going way down and it may very well be that if you take masks off the kids in the next week or so it's going to keep going down." Fauci also conceded "it's understandable why people want to take masks off the kids," but went on to warn that "right now, given the level of activity that we have, it is risky," a point he emphasized, that could lead to "an increase in infections."

Another argument for lifting mask mandates for children, which Fauci himself also acknowledged, is that children are less likely to contract a severe cause of the coronavirus as an adult or an elderly person especially would.

In that answer, though, Fauci failed to discuss the other harms children have faced, which pertains to how they have suffered socially and emotionally as a result of lockdowns. Further, as Leah reported earlier this month, a Johns Hopkins study found that lockdowns had "little to no effect" on mortality," and "only reduced COVID-19 mortality by .2% on average."

Parents and speech therapists have also reported that they are seeing speech delays in children due to masks, especially for those who have special needs and who are deaf.

Fauci himself had also said earlier during the Wednesday night conversation that "the time will come" when there are such low rates of the coronavirus, "which is the best we can hope for," since we cannot expect to eradicate it, and that it will not be "disrupting" society.

Headlines also highlighted comments Fauci made in an interview with Reuters, which is that it's time where "you've got to start inching towards that," when it comes to getting back to normal.

What could be more normal than letting parents make their own decisions about whether or not their children will have to wear masks to school?

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Tom Elliott @tomselliott

Despite science, Dr. Fauci claims “it is risky” to stop forcing kids to wear facemasks

"It’s understandable why people want to take masks off the kids. But, right now, given the level of activity that we have, it is risky.”

[lightman]

It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

[Travis McGee]

[NWFree]

Dr Fubar wants to continue the experiments on your kids. What’s the problem? 🤪

[allendale]

What was “risky” was authorizing US taxpayer funding of gain of function research on coronaviruses at a Chinese biological warfare lab in Wusan, China. Dr. Fauci committed a crime that not only has caused catostrophic death and suffering but has made the United States partly liable for this pandemic.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Infuriating!

[caww]

Fauci doesn’t want anyone to take masks off or get beyond covid restrictions......he’ll be out of a lucrative job. Highest paid official in Washington.

[Sacajaweau]

Fauci wants masks forever. That means that next flu season, CDC will say....mask up.

I follow Dr. Ashish Jha of Brown University. He is an actual Pandemic expert, a practicing physician. He says to drop the masks for school children.

[Col Frank Slade]

Faucci doesn’t want masks off the kids because masks are the most visual justification to vaccinate kids.

[UNGN]

When Fauci or Francis Collins finally gets Covid and dies from it, I will make it a point to visit their grave site... and dance on it.

[caww]

Good point!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Not as risky as “Gain-to-function” research that included manipulating viruses to make them more contagious.

Fauci CAUSED this pandemic.

He should be arrested.

[lightman]

Preferably after 32oz of coffee and an equal quantity of beans.

[Hammerhead]

sob prolly has stock in the mask manufactoring business as well

[Secret Agent Man]

This is to keep the teaching karens scared

Overwhelmingly wimmin

Its why they have pushed real men out of schools and school admin spots

Wimmin are far more socially compliant and demanding others be so as well

[lightman]

More reasons to reconsider the 19th A.

[GrannyAnn]

We have thousands of schools across the country that have been maskless since September 2021.

We have thousands of schools where the poor kids are still in face diapers.

Maybe somebody could do some real science.

[GingisK]

Parents took their children in wagon trains across the country all the way up to Oregon and Washington. That was a lot more dangerous. What ever happened to Americans? (Complacency stage of collapse.)

[From The Deer Stand]

Fauci has proven to be the biggest risk to public health.

[olivia3boys]

My two CA teens (one in private Christian high school, one a freshman at Cal state) are masked 7 hours a day and it breaks my heart daily. It’s hard to know how to fight this. I attended 9 rallies last year and have written emails to the county and state and voted to recall Newsom and the whole world has now unmasked students and yet here we still are.