Tag: masks

Louisiana Lifts Mask Mandate, Except for Schools Allowing Parents to Opt Students out of Quarantine

Louisiana is going to lift the statewide indoor mask mandate, except for schools that allow parents to decide whether to quarantine their kids after a COVID-19 exposure in the classroom, Gov. John Bel Edwards announced Tuesday. “I stand here today optimistic, relieved that the worst of the fourth surge is very clearly behind us now,”…


Florida’s Surgeon General at Centre of Mask Row With Sick Senator

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo on Oct. 26 responded to an incident in which he refused to wear a mask when visiting a state senator who has been diagnosed with cancer. The matter took place on Oct. 25 after state Sen. Tina Polsky (D-Boca Raton), had agreed to meet with Ladapo in her Tallahassee office in…


Minnesota Surgeon Fired After Speaking Against Mask Mandates at School Board Meeting

A veteran surgeon in Minnesota has lost his job after he advocated at a school board meeting parents’ right to opt their children out of mask mandates. Hundreds of people on Monday rallied in Fergus Falls, a west-central Minnesota town, in support of Dr. Jeffrey Horak, who has worked at local Lake Region Healthcare for…


A Mandate Martyr

Commentary The more I observe the establishment’s moral panic over COVID vaccines, the greater my belief that mandates are less about establishing beneficial public health policy and more about enabling an emerging technocracy to assume authoritarian control. Let’s consider the current case of Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Irvine…


Bay Area Counties Adopt Shared Guidelines for Lifting Indoor Mask Requirements

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Public health officials in nine jurisdictions across the Bay Area have announced official criteria for lifting COVID-19 indoor mask requirements. The officials made the announcement on Oct. 7. The counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Sonoma, as well as the City of Berkeley, cited the…


The Masks of Piety

Commentary I drove across the dusty prairie the other day for a funeral in a midwestern town. Three hours of the slanted Fall sunlight: the fields stubbled after the recent harvest and hay cutting, the highways emptying of the final tourists in their campers and SUVs. That strange autumn odor of dust and dying wheat…


The Real Effects of COVID-19 Are Psychological

Commentary The world has been bombarded with agitprop public messaging from state-run Chinese media and “wolf warrior” diplomats, as well as Western authorities and their media sycophants, since China first reported COVID-19 cases in Wuhan city, Hubei Province to the World Health Organization on Dec. 31, 2019. The messages were uniformly and relentlessly propagated, all…


School Boards Ask Biden Admin to Treat Parents’ Protests as ‘Domestic Terrorism’

The national organization of public school boards is calling on the Biden administration to protect its members from “angry mobs” of parents who protest against COVID-19 restrictions placed on students and the teaching of critical race theory, characterizing the protests as “domestic terrorism.” The National School Boards Association (NSBA), which represents more than 90,000 school…


France to End Mandatory Mask Wearing for Students in Some Schools

The French government announced Thursday that primary school students in areas with a low CCP virus infection rate will no longer have to wear face masks starting next month. According to a government decree issued on Sept. 30, the new rule will go into effect from Oct. 4 and will include regions that have fewer…


Pennsylvania Senate Republicans Aim to Put Masking Decision in Parental Hands

The Pennsylvania Senate Education Committee Tuesday approved a plan that provides parental control over masking decisions in school. Senate Bill 846 next goes before the full Senate for consideration. Republican senators Doug Mastriano and Judy Ward cosponsored the bill which would allow parents or legal guardians to opt their child out of wearing a face…