Posted on 07/10/2021 6:41:02 PM PDT by karpov
My 9-year-old daughter came home from camp two weeks ago after playing three hours of outdoor tennis in a mask. “I thought I was going to faint,” she told me, looking ill after playing in 98-degree weather. Later that afternoon the camp, run by the Sidwell Friends School, called to complain about her mask compliance.
We’re now 16 months into the pandemic and children remain victims of the Covid political theater that has characterized the national debate about masks ever since.
We’ve had an entire school year to prove what scientists have said all along: Children aren’t major vectors of the virus, and schools and child-care centers aren’t drivers of community spread. Consider three of my children and their two schools. One went to class in person all year unmasked; the other two were required to wear masks, even at recess. Both schools had the same number of Covid cases: zero.
Multiple peer-reviewed studies have found that children transmit the virus at a much lower rate than adults do. The latest comprehensive data show that children have an extremely low chance of dying or becoming seriously ill from Covid-19, and that the child mortality rate is much lower than what public-health officials had initially suspected.
From Dec. 1 to Jan. 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated nine school Covid clusters involving students and educators in a Georgia school district. The study found teachers involved in eight clusters and clearly driving the spread in four, and only one cluster where a student clearly drove spread. This led the CDC to point the finger at “educators,” not children, as likely playing “a central role in-school transmission networks.”
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Your child is considered expendable by Big Brother.
Just another test and entertainment subject for elites.
Why are you sending her to camp in the extreme heat? She belongs in a pool in her backyard.
Buck up and be a parent, dammit.
The mother should have asked about masks...kids do not need them..
And not sent the kid to the camp
Well, number one, mom, you sent her to a camp that makes her wear a mask.
You are her only mother. Step up and and protect this child. She needs to breathe. Quit signing her up for smother camp.
Screw masks 🎭!
Tell them to screw off !
My thought exactly. My kid would be right back in the car, off to the lake.
Covid tennis courts transmission. What utter bs.
98 degrees. Don’t think the mask was a huge factor.
if mexifornia is one of the leaders of the Home school movement the past year, you know something’s wrong with your leftard school district..
The school for the children of Washington DC's elite, statist apparatchiks. They probably pray to Fauci every morning.
tell that the covidiots here in L.A. It hit 94 in the valley awhile ago, and still saw this clown wear them. Unreal.
It’s not about whether your daughter is a transmitter of the Coronavirus. They just want obedience. She is to put the mask on for no other reason than that she has been told to put the mask on.
At the temps we have here in Texas, I really doubt covid could last more than a few seconds outside.
Perfect. Well said.👍
Parents need to grow a pair of balls and tell the government and schools to piss off.
Virtue signaling is more important than your health.
Warping the brains of a whole generation to think you need to wear masks outdoors in 98 degree heat.
” don’t think the mask was a huge factor “ ?
Oxygen deprivation, re-inhaling your expelled carbon dioxide in 98 degree weather.
And, you “ don’t think the mask was a huge factor “ ?
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