By Selwyn Duke
With some school systems reinstituting mask mandates, some wonder: Is the explanation stupidity or sociopathy? After all, even CNN medical analyst Dr. Leana Wen, once a fierce advocate of socially penalizing the âunvaxxedâ and of masking schoolchildren, changed her tune this summer on the latter â after the practice harmed her own little sonâs âlanguage development.â
But the house that fell on her hasnât impressed Philadelphiaâs city fathers. One might assume these officials would focus on fighting crime, since young men in the âCity of Brotherly Loveâsâ most violent zip code are almost twice as likely to be shot to death as soldiers in Afghanistan were. Instead, theyâve busied themselves mandating that Phillyâs schoolkids must wear masks for 10 days upon their Christmas break return. It brings to mind comedian W.C. Fieldsâs old crack about a Philadelphia existence being only slightly preferable to death.
Going one better (as in worse), Passaic County in New Jersey had a school mask mandate take effect last week, citing high levels of community China virus transmission. Interestingly, this âthreatâ didnât seem to faze Passaicâs teachers at their holiday party just days before (image below).
Passaicâs Teacher Holiday Party this past weekend.Â
Passaic just instituted a mask mandate on speech-delayed toddlers effective today. pic.twitter.com/QbTjBxeu9r
— Justin Spiro, LCSW (@Jusrangers) December 22, 2022
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