More Michigan Covidiocy

[Sam3]

I'm kind of surprised that this story didn't hit the MRF "Friendy" side. You think Texas and Florida are bad? Parents are up in arms protesting that kids need to be freed from masks, saying that "...elementary-aged kids have suffered this school year as a result of COVID-19 restrictions like mask rules..."

https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/04/enoug...ricts.html

Some more fun Covidiot quotes:

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.”

Really?

So this person thinks that it's a good idea to have a 7000 student school system get shut down in order to "stand up to the state":

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.”

While we're talking about covid-19, let's just go ahead and bring in gender issues:

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.

And finally from that article, the big bad gubmint wants to control our kids.

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.”

Did you see how perfectly the protesters wore their masks? Oh, wait...

Salon also covered this.

https://www.salon.com/2021/04/17/michiga...e_partner/

Love this quote:

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."

:facepalm:
Uh, sure lady.

Just to let you know, Ottawa County, MI and Hudsonville especially have a high percentage of Christian Reformed people, the Christian Reformed are quite conservative, maybe not quite to the extent of Baptists, but still pretty hard core.

Definitely Trump country.

[cbelt3]

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...

[Sam3]

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...

Well, yeah, you do have a point, Michigan did do away with mandatory helmet laws.

[S. Pupp]

"we don’t know the long-term effects that wearing these masks are doing due to them"

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'm so tired of the inane, stupid ramblings of segments of our population being given any credence whatsoever. People with such little common sense should lose their voting privileges, or be put away for their own protection. That includes my own neurologist - level of education seems to have little bearing on who's an anti-masker complaining about long-term effects of masks on kids.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

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.

The stats are that for every one person that dies, there are 19 more people that end up as Long Haulers. 8 out of 1000 Long Haulers die in the next year. It will take another year to collect reliable stats on that 8. Mutations will likely raise that number.

[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.

[deckeda]

This has been a familiar story all over. Protect the kids, unless it interferes with my being able to go to work or to lead them into becoming responsible humans.

No, a lot of the time parents most certainly do NOT know best.

[Speedy]

I’m not up on what Michigan has for restrictions. Masks in commercial buildings, limited indoor dining, etc.? Or did the legislature wrest control from the governor and open the state?

[S. Pupp]

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.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[p8712]

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.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
This was from a person with the power to prescribe. And we wonder why the third leading cause of death is the third leading cause of death.