I showed up at the Cobb County School Board Meeting yesterday, along with about 100 other parents concerned about masks and critical race theory. With only 2 minutes to speak, I focused solely on the mask issue.
Here is the written copy of my commentary:
Hi everyone. Thank you so much for hearing us out today. My husband and I have been residents of Cobb County for 25 years. We have our own business. It is a wellness clinic in West Cobb for the last 23 years so we have been teaching people about viruses and health for a long, long time.
I think a lot of parents have been really patient with this because they were learning as they went but now we know a lot more.
We know that masks don’t work with viruses. The SARS -Cov2 viron size is .1 microns. The pores in the masks, even surgical masks is 200 – 1000 times that. Smoke is .5 microns which is 5 times the size of a virus. We see kids posting videos of themselves vaping and the vapors flow easily through the mask and out the sides, top and bottom.
There has only been 1 randomized study and it found that mask wearing, “did not reduce, at conventional levels of stastical significance, the incidence of SARS- Cov2″. (See link below) This means that the SARS -Cov2 virons can flow freely bank and forth through the mask. However, bacteria has a particle size 50 times larger than viruses. So, as viruses move in and out of the mask, bacteria cannot. It will sit on the inside and/or outside of the mask and puts the wearer at risk.
There have been hundreds of studies, however on mask wearing and the flu. It has been proven time and time again that masks don’t’ work against viruses. If they did, wouldn’t we have worn them before now? After all, the flu kills thousands of people every year.
To require children to wear masks all day, every day is nothing short of a whole school system-wide experimental trial based on opinion and propaganda, not fact or science.
Children, even according to the CDC have virtually no chance of dying from COVID 19 (.003) and do not “spread” it. To tell a child that they are going to bring it home to grandma is nothing short of abuse in my opinion.
I am all about health freedom! Moms and dads should be making health decisions for their children, not the school board. Parents who have fears about the virus can opt for their children to stay home and attend school virtually. Parents who want their kids back in school should be able to go in person, without masks.
Masks result in lower oxygen levels as well. To force kids to wear masks during PE and recess is just absurd.
This also affects a child’s well-being and emotional state. To many of them, it is like living in a sci-fi movie. All humans, but especially children, make an emotional connection to others through contact, through facial expressions, through close interaction. I have seen so many kids become sad and withdrawn, walking with their heads and eyes down. This is not normal under any theory.
The virtue signaling, shame and judgement that is being thrust upon our children is unreal. “Billy has COVID, everyone stay away from him.” We have basically turned people into modern-day lepers. They are being singled out. The contract tracing just makes the matter worse. Everyone knows it’s Billy’s fault we all have to stay home from school. It is outrageous. There are be kind/anti-bullying campaigns that seek to end this exact type of behavior. Schools are now breaking their own policies and the kids are suffering for it, immensely. Stop the mask requirements. It is past time.
Thank you.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-6817
I, and everyone else there were shocked that we were not even allowed in the building. Other Georgia school systems had open meetings where there were even more people in attendance and they were allowed in.
The only way to enter the building was to sign up to speak for 2 minutes. Even then, each person was escorted in and escorted out then the next person was brought in. It was all very, I don’t know, courtroom-like. It definitely wasn’t a “meeting”. It was us speaking into a vacuum and our words seemed lost forever.
What on earth? Why? What were they afraid was going to happen? There was no aggression, nothing out of the ordinary, just a group of concerned parents who wanted to be heard by our ELECTED OFFICIALS.
I will admit, embarrassingly, that this is the first board meeting I have attended so maybe this was perfectly normal. Even if that was the case, I would have hoped that our efforts would at least be acknowledged.
I was also disheartened to see one board member kneel for the pledge of allegiance. I would love to hear the rationale behind that. I watched another board member looking seemingly uninterested in what I had to say – head in her hands, negative body language, fidgeting, etc. Many others saw the same response from her. Her post today on her facebook page was negative and disparaging which was no surprise based on her reaction to our tiny little seemingly inconvenient speeches. The comments on her post were even worse.
One board member did come out (the pledge kneeler) but said nothing of true significance or that made us feel any better. I do appreciate his effort to at least come out at all. The other board members, I will assume left out of a back door because none of us saw any of them.
This was my Facebook live video after I came home last night
This morning, the AJC posted an article and I was quoted in it. I was at least encouraged that the meeting and event was covered in the news at all.
Here is the link to the article. https://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta-news/parents-demand-cobb-schools-remove-student-mask-mandate/PIYQMVCVFBDIBESBHVOBNLPVLE/
For reference, here is a pic of the Pledge of Allegiance and me giving one woman a headache apparently.
