MLive wrote: “I understand that (schools require masks) to keep the kids safe, and the teachers,” Gamby said. “But I think some leniency should be put into place because these kids are struggling, big time, and we don’t know the long-term effects that wearing these masks are doing due to them.”

MLive wrote: But Gamby said if Hudsonville were to make masks optional, the act of “standing up to the state” would be worth the risk of being forced to shut down.

“I think it’s a worthwhile risk to take because at some point, somebody needs to stand up and fight for our kids’ health,” she said. “Not COVID health, but their mental health, their physical health of what wearing a mask does to their little body, and their academic health, they can’t continue to learn and thrive with a mask over their face.”

MLive wrote: DeBois said he thinks it is “common sense” for schools to make masks optional.

“If the schools are allowing students and parents to choose their gender, they should be allowing us to decide whether or not our own children wear a mask,” DeBois said.

MLive wrote: “The government cannot make a decision for my kids’ health,” she said. “And that’s what it boils down to, the government is controlling what is best for my kids, and that is a parent’s choice.”

Salon wrote: Hudsonville mom Jeanette Schuiteman, who has a son in the 11th grade, expressed a number of concerns. While masks were the dominant complaint, many also aired their grievances about the social distancing measures noting how their children have only had minimal interaction with others since school started. Schuiteman insists the measures are "physically not healthy."

She believes masks should be voluntary decisions made by individuals; not the school district.

"I think that's a decision that a parent should be able to make given the harmful side effects that might occur because of it," she said. "There is not really any scientific evidence to back up the effectiveness of masks for transmitting a virus."

cbelt3 wrote:
Like antivaxxers, it's evolution in action. They take some of us with them, but...

Don't forget the motorcycle anti helmet campaigns: "They cause neck injuries !" (Well, yeah, but you'd be dead otherwise)

Dumbassery will continue...

S. Pupp wrote: We DO know the long term effects of these masks: NOT DYING or ending up with LIFE-LONG lung, heart, or brain problems.

We DO know the long term effects of these masks: NOT DYING or ending up with LIFE-LONG lung, heart, or brain problems.

If masks were dangerous, we'd know about it: Surgeons and their staff wear masks most of the day.

p8712 wrote:

We DO know the long term effects of these masks: NOT DYING or ending up with LIFE-LONG lung, heart, or brain problems.

If masks were dangerous, we'd know about it: Surgeons and their staff wear masks most of the day.

I had a nurse and nurse practitioner argue with me that we are going to see a wave of COPD cases because of what masks are doing to our oxygen levels. There’s no saving the world.

Don’t worry, in the same conversation they went on to explain to me how the gallbladder is intimately involved in the digestion of protein.

S. Pupp wrote:
[quote=p8712]

We DO know the long term effects of these masks: NOT DYING or ending up with LIFE-LONG lung, heart, or brain problems.

If masks were dangerous, we'd know about it: Surgeons and their staff wear masks most of the day.

I had a nurse and nurse practitioner argue with me that we are going to see a wave of COPD cases because of what masks are doing to our oxygen levels. There’s no saving the world.

Don’t worry, in the same conversation they went on to explain to me how the gallbladder is intimately involved in the digestion of protein.