Maskless Madness. GOP Gov’s Wage Anti-Science Wars.
Governors from Texas to Florida are keep fighting for school children to go maskless this fall in defiance of basic science. (NBC News)
“The battle over school masking reached a fever pitch as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration took aim at two school districts over new mandates that fly in the face of his executive order seeking to prevent them.
In letters to leaders of the public schools in Alachua and Leon counties, the state’s department of education said the districts are being investigated for noncompliance because their new mask policies don’t provide parents total freedom to opt their children out of in-school masking. The districts were threatened with the possibility of having funding equal to the salaries of the superintendent and school board members withheld — a sum in excess of $300,000.”
Masks save lives and children are now becoming infected at greater rates and filling up children’s hospitals. Therefore, instead of pandering to the hard right base that is diametrically opposed to basic scientific principles, governors need to ensure the basic health and safety of children. Unfortunately, governors of some of the very largest states in the nation are trying their hardest to guarantee children do not benefit from scientific knowledge. This has to stop.
