It makes me seethe to see how children around the world have been thrown under the bus over this stupid pandemic. I was talking to a woman the other day because she was at a meeting and had her little sausage dog with her. Apparently it's a "Lockdown Pup" and suffers from separation anxiety. She was very keen to tell me how traumatic the lockdowns and masked faces had been for the little dog. So it's OK to talk about the damage done to dogs during the last 3 years but not to children because all anyone ever says about children is "oh, kids are so resilient they just bounce back". That's after telling them they would kill their granny if they breathed on her and they couldn't go to school in case they killed the teachers. I can't think of a strong enough word for how it makes me feel.
Here in the UK I can make the personal (and completely "unscientific") observation that while out and about in such mundane settings as supermarkets the folk most likely to still be inflicting the face mask on themselves fall into three categories:
1. People of East Asian ethnicity, who have long been conditioned in China/Korea/Japan to accept face masks as "normal" for all sorts of reasons and who now feel more comfortable doing so in a western European country (we have lots of visiting Chinese students here);
2. Elderly people who have been scared to near witlessness by three years of "public health" propaganda; and
3. Young people in their late teens and twenties, who by their appearance in dress and hairstyles pride themselves on being part of some variegated subculture or other, Goth, Emo, Vegan, LGBTQABCDE or whatever.
Unfortunately the third group are by far the largest of the Forever Masked, and judging by the general demeanour (avoidance of eye contact, hunched shoulder shuffle) seem to be serious sufferers of what used to be called social anxiety. They reinforce this anxiety by hiding behind the mask. The sad thing is that the mask mandates made this acceptable, so we now have a vicious circle whereby young people who three years ago would have been deemed suffering from mental ill health (anyone remember the spike in mental illness the western world was so worried about before the Fashionable Disease edged everything else out of public consciousness?) are not just being pandered to but are actively having their mental health issues ingrained.
"Before the pandemic, children wore masks only when sick."
There's the root of the problem. Wearing it "when sick" leads to wearing it when you might be sick, or when others are sick, or when an expert tells you it will prevent you from making Grandma sick.
The reason not to wear these humiliating rags should be that they do not work, not that the pandemic has been declared over.
MICHELLE BUCKLEY: Hello, and thank you for allowing me to speak today. My name is Michelle Buckley. I'm the mother to a bright three and a half year-old boy named Franky. I'm a medical speech pathologist and my husband is an internal medicine physician. We live in South Tampa.
I am here today to advocate not only for my child but for all of our children. Requiring our children to wear a cloth face covering in order to participate in their publicly-funded education is not only morally and ethically wrong but it is unconstitutional.
A cloth face covering when used for source control is considered by definition to be a medical device according to the FDA.
I stand here as a medical speech pathologist, a mother, and the wife of a physician to use my voice to say that Superintendent Davis is not a medical doctor and if he was he would need to provide true informed consent before recommending the use of a medical device.
Doctors do not mandate the use of medical devices. They recommend them. And the consumer decides whether or not the recommendation is for them.
I stand here today not to try and convince the School Board that masks are neither safe nor effective in this setting with this population, but rather to stand here and speak to all of you, as citizens of the great United States, to remind you that the US and Florida Constitutions are the great law of the land.
Superintendent Davis* does not a seat a publicly elected position. He does not have the authority to make laws. There is no law requiring that requires a child to cover his or her face to enter the grounds of their publicly-funded school.
I am here to be a role model for the parents who know in their hearts that masking their child in order to keep them in public school is not right. I am here for you. I am here to show you that you are not alone. Peaceful noncompliance is simply the refusal to participate in that which is morally and ethically wrong and unconstitutional. Peaceful noncompliance is the personal choice to stop participating in a system that is unjust. And I'll leave it at that.
Thank you.
1:10:00
[END]
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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
*Addison Davis, Superintendent of Schools for Hillsborough County Public Schools
It makes me seethe to see how children around the world have been thrown under the bus over this stupid pandemic. I was talking to a woman the other day because she was at a meeting and had her little sausage dog with her. Apparently it's a "Lockdown Pup" and suffers from separation anxiety. She was very keen to tell me how traumatic the lockdowns and masked faces had been for the little dog. So it's OK to talk about the damage done to dogs during the last 3 years but not to children because all anyone ever says about children is "oh, kids are so resilient they just bounce back". That's after telling them they would kill their granny if they breathed on her and they couldn't go to school in case they killed the teachers. I can't think of a strong enough word for how it makes me feel.
Here in the UK I can make the personal (and completely "unscientific") observation that while out and about in such mundane settings as supermarkets the folk most likely to still be inflicting the face mask on themselves fall into three categories:
1. People of East Asian ethnicity, who have long been conditioned in China/Korea/Japan to accept face masks as "normal" for all sorts of reasons and who now feel more comfortable doing so in a western European country (we have lots of visiting Chinese students here);
2. Elderly people who have been scared to near witlessness by three years of "public health" propaganda; and
3. Young people in their late teens and twenties, who by their appearance in dress and hairstyles pride themselves on being part of some variegated subculture or other, Goth, Emo, Vegan, LGBTQABCDE or whatever.
Unfortunately the third group are by far the largest of the Forever Masked, and judging by the general demeanour (avoidance of eye contact, hunched shoulder shuffle) seem to be serious sufferers of what used to be called social anxiety. They reinforce this anxiety by hiding behind the mask. The sad thing is that the mask mandates made this acceptable, so we now have a vicious circle whereby young people who three years ago would have been deemed suffering from mental ill health (anyone remember the spike in mental illness the western world was so worried about before the Fashionable Disease edged everything else out of public consciousness?) are not just being pandered to but are actively having their mental health issues ingrained.
"Before the pandemic, children wore masks only when sick."
There's the root of the problem. Wearing it "when sick" leads to wearing it when you might be sick, or when others are sick, or when an expert tells you it will prevent you from making Grandma sick.
The reason not to wear these humiliating rags should be that they do not work, not that the pandemic has been declared over.
Relatedly:
MEDICAL SPEECH PATHOLOGIST (AND FRANKY'S MOM) BLASTS THE MASKS, HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS BOARD MEETING
https://www.facebook.com/HillsboroughSch/videos/school-board-meeting-march-9-2021/1123230244791431/
Hillsborough County School Board, Florida
Public Comment, March 9, 2021
TRANSCRIPT
1:08:04
MICHELLE BUCKLEY: Hello, and thank you for allowing me to speak today. My name is Michelle Buckley. I'm the mother to a bright three and a half year-old boy named Franky. I'm a medical speech pathologist and my husband is an internal medicine physician. We live in South Tampa.
I am here today to advocate not only for my child but for all of our children. Requiring our children to wear a cloth face covering in order to participate in their publicly-funded education is not only morally and ethically wrong but it is unconstitutional.
A cloth face covering when used for source control is considered by definition to be a medical device according to the FDA.
I stand here as a medical speech pathologist, a mother, and the wife of a physician to use my voice to say that Superintendent Davis is not a medical doctor and if he was he would need to provide true informed consent before recommending the use of a medical device.
Doctors do not mandate the use of medical devices. They recommend them. And the consumer decides whether or not the recommendation is for them.
I stand here today not to try and convince the School Board that masks are neither safe nor effective in this setting with this population, but rather to stand here and speak to all of you, as citizens of the great United States, to remind you that the US and Florida Constitutions are the great law of the land.
Superintendent Davis* does not a seat a publicly elected position. He does not have the authority to make laws. There is no law requiring that requires a child to cover his or her face to enter the grounds of their publicly-funded school.
I am here to be a role model for the parents who know in their hearts that masking their child in order to keep them in public school is not right. I am here for you. I am here to show you that you are not alone. Peaceful noncompliance is simply the refusal to participate in that which is morally and ethically wrong and unconstitutional. Peaceful noncompliance is the personal choice to stop participating in a system that is unjust. And I'll leave it at that.
Thank you.
1:10:00
[END]
# # #
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
*Addison Davis, Superintendent of Schools for Hillsborough County Public Schools
https://www.hillsboroughschools.org/page/558