June 28, 2021 SCRP Covid update
According to recent reports schools in Skagit County will open for in-person learning in the fall but still may be requiring all children to be masked. The SCRP encourgaes you protest this decision. Parents have the right to decide their childrens' medical therapy, including whether they will wear a mask!
-Masking is harmful to our children medically, socially, and emotionally
-Covid-19 poses little threat to K-12 students and if they do get the infection, they are unlikely to pass it on to adults
-There is no science and no data that justifies masking our children; in fact, the science actually justifies UN-MASKING our kids!
-Parents have the right to make medical decisions for their children; the government and school districts do not!
-Masks do not work! The pores in the mask are too large to stop this virus!
We need your help in fighting for our parental rights! Mask mandates are harming our children!
Cloth and surgical masks offer almost no protection against this virus. A surgical mask has an average pore size of 19,290 nanometers. This coronavirus has a diameter of ~100 nanometers. The chance that a mask will stop this virus is about the same as a chain link fence stopping a grain of sand. It doesn't work. It can't work. Even Anthony Fauci admitted that masks are useless. On February 5, 2020, he said in an email obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, "The typical mask you buy in the drugstore is not really effective in keeping out the virus, which is small enough to pass through the material."
Dr. Fauci also admitted in a February 23 email that "children have a very low rate of infection." Researchers for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found scant coronavirus transmission in schools operating in person. Dr. Fauci has confirmed that children do not transmit Covid-19 in any significant way. As of June 16, 2021, the CDC reports that 322 kids age 0-17 have died of Covid-19. Every death is a tragedy, but during the 2018-2019 flu season, 477 kids in that age range died of the regular flu, and we didn't take to shutting down our schools or masking our kids at that time.
Additionally, children have been repeatedly shown not to be drivers of this disease. Statistically, children in grades K-12 have a mortality rate of 0.00003 from Covid-19. If they do get a Covid-19 infection, it is often with mild or no symptoms. Dr. Fauci has been very clear that asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19 is not a threat. He stated, "in all the history of respiratory-borne viruses of any type, asymptomatic transmission has never been the driver of outbreaks. The driver of outbreaks is always a symptomatic person."
Prolonged mask use (>4 hours/day) has serious consequences in children. It interferes with their social learning, distorts verbal speech, and removes visual cues for the hard of hearing. Face covering policies also inhibit peer-to-peer learning.
Masks provide a warm, moist environment for bacteria to grow. Recently, parents had 6 “used” face masks tested for pathogens at the University of Florida; they discovered that those face masks harbored bacteria that cause food poisoning, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and meningitis. Our children MUST be protected against wearing these reservoirs of disease on their faces!
Contrary to what we are constantly told, there is no science and no data that justifies masking our children. Kids are being punished, and for no reason! In America, parents have the right to choose what's best for their child, including any medical therapies, such as masks, that will be used on that child! It's time for those parental rights to be acknowledged, respected and restored. Our public schools must open in the fall, full-time, in person, without the mask mandate!