The policy director for the Independent Women’s Forum penned a letter opposing mask mandates for school children. The Washington Post took it as an opportunity to defame the conservative women’s group.The letter was intended as a jumping off point for parents to talk to their children’s schools about masking. It acknowledged the difficulty school administrators face and summarized reasons for opposing mask mandates for students.A mother wrote it to her own children’s preschool. Hadley Heath Manning told The Post Millennial that “The tenor of debate on this issue has reached an unhealthy fever pitch. It seems there’s no longer any room for disagreement, or even questioning, of the status quo.”“In our experience,” Manning said, “the left-leaning mainstream media equates expressing concern about masks on little children with advocating that more people die from COVID. It’s hard to have a good-faith debate when the other side wants to accuse and discredit you rather than engage on the substance.”