Proposes 'Masks Off Act' for schools: 29% of COVID cases in area are schoolchildren
Sep. 25, 2021 at 6:00 am
Updated Sep. 25, 2021 at 6:25 am
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times columnist
... Rep. Dan Newhouse, has picked the peak of a local surge to plunge into the pandemic culture wars by co-sponsoring a new bill called the “Masks Off Act” ...
... it proposes to give parents grants, up to the per-pupil amount that the government pays for public education, so they can pull their student from any school that has a mask requirement and send them to one that doesn’t ...
The very next day .. health officials in the Tri-Cities, which Newhouse represents, announced that 29% of all COVID cases in the area are among children ...
The “Masks Off Act” .. proposes to shift taxpayer resources out of one of the core institutions — schools — on the front lines of the battle. And it would give that money to people who not only aren’t doing whatever they can to stop the spread, but are throwing a fit over the relatively mild request to wear masks as a way to try to keep the schools open ...
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/this-says-it-all-congressman-proposes-masks-off-act-for-schools-as-29-of-covid-cases-in-his-area-are-in-schoolchildren/
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