Lawmakers Rethink Mask Policies as More Kids Quarantine (Pew)

[bronxiteforever]

STATELINE ARTICLE
September 13, 2021
By: Aallyah Wright

Misty Russell, a mother of three, had just moved to Greenville, South Carolina, and was ecstatic for her 8-year-old daughter to attend school in-person in a new state and school district. But, after visiting her daughter’s elementary school in August, she noticed most adults did not have on a mask, and her excitement turned into anger and fear, she said.

And last week, her daughter’s class was exposed to COVID-19, forcing the child and her classmates to quarantine and transition to virtual learning.

“The school’s job is to provide a safe environment for your kids to go to school, … which they’re choosing not to do because they just fall back with [the governor’s mask ban],” Russell said. “Well, to me, you should do what’s right and let the chips fall where they may and stand up for the kids. I don’t care what the governor says. It’s basically like, the house is on fire, and we’re just gonna sit there and watch your kids burn.”

… Why [are] all these adults sitting around and pointing fingers, but nobody is really having the courage to stand up and say, ‘My kid’s life is more important than your political statement,’” Russell said. “It’s life or death.


More here
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/09/13/lawmakers-rethink-mask-policies-as-more-kids-quarantine

[The Magistrate]

1. What A Silly rabbit Ms. Russel Is, Sir

Nothing, anywhere, nothing at all, is more important than a Republican politician's virtue signalling. Compared to standing in well with red-hat maggots in primary season, what are the lives young children? Dust and string, dust and string in the back of an empty drawer....

[bronxiteforever]

3. +1 from the love the fetus but hate the child party

[ananda]

12. Well said, Magistrate.

Hat tip

[SheltieLover]

2. Typical in my area for teachers & admin not to wear masks

[bronxiteforever]

5. Horrible!

Hi SL,

[SheltieLover]

7. Yes it is

And, of course, many students model their behavior.

[Probatim]

4. Think of the children!

This tired old line needs to be trotted out and shoved down their throats until they choke on it.

[luv2fly]

6. Sadly they get stuck at the first word n/t

[FakeNoose]

8. How many of those teachers and admin have been vaccinated?

We know the kids haven't been, but hopefully at least the adults are.
Is that too much to hope for?

[Grins]

9. "Lawmakers Rethink Mask Policies!"

Sorry. You are too late. And too ignorant to be in office.

If the deaths of dozens per day in hospital ER’s and ICU’s was not sufficient to make you think, “Waitaminute!” what would?

Resign! Let someone competent and not in thrall to Fox, OANN, and Newsmax take over. “Think of the children,” someone once said.

[lagomorph777]

10. All adults supporting mask bans need to be charged with genocide.

[PortTack]

11. "Rethink????" They weren't thinking in the first place. Killing kids is what they're doing for their

Political futures...history will not be kind

[DownriverDem]

13. Red States

don't care. If college students in the south at a football game can yell "F**k Biden", do you think the schools care? No offense, but I would never live in the south.

[rickyhall]

14. Lawmaker's own kids are safe, fuck their constituent's kids.