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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Next Youngkin is going to ban hand sanitizer and soap from schools and businesses that sell food. "We're sick as he11 and we're not going to take it anymore!"[/quote]

Seriously, I do worry that red states will start overturning all vaccine requirements and we'll see more measles and mumps. The school vaccine requirements are a really important public health measure, and it's absolutely crazy there are people out saying they want to overturn them.[/quote]

OMG.  Youngkin’s proposal has bipartisan support and is very reasonable, based on the numbers and science.

PP - you hysterical reaction, along with the other political sniping, is proof that progressivism is a mental disorder.[/quote]

It is disingenuous to say it has bipartisan support.  I think it has 3 democratic senators and even fewer (if any) delegates.  It’s not based on numbers or science — the cdc, the aap and other heath groups say we need masks now.  If another variant comes along, districts won’t be able to reinstate the mandate.  Their hands are tied from handling the conditions.  That is not reasonable.  It is based on an Atlantic article and a Republican political strategy.  If the law had metrics for mask removal, it would be based on science.  If it allowed local districts to decide based on their own conditions, it would make sense (like what NJ and CT did).  Parental opt out is not science.[/quote]

If mask mandates locally were based on science, Arlington wouldn't have one now. It has the 2nd highest vaccination rate in VA.  Every leading medical person has said we need to get away from cases. Our hospitals in Arlington are amazing - they just rode out the Omicron surge with more capacity than they do in a non-flu season, let alone a regular January (hospitals are typically completely full every January because of the flu). 
 As shown by school closures last school year and forced child masking this year, the decisions in Arlington (and in many places in NOVA) are not based on medical science, they're based on political science.

The CDC and the AAP have 0 credibility. 0. They both recommend masking 2 year olds, which is such an outlier in the Western World. AAP said this year that babies don't need to see faces. T

As Dr. McBride has repeatedly explained with over 1,000 medical professionals now (and growing), there's 0 solid studies showing that masking kids in school materially reduces COVID transmission. 0.  The forced child maskers are who need to follow the science.[/quote]

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