Illegal Phil

[Illegal Phil @illegal_phil]

Our statement on today's announcement by @Cal_HHS and @GavinNewsom on the temporary end to the school mask mandate.

Masks, tests, quarantines, etc. - it all must end, for good.

"Until all COVID-era restrictions are permanently retired, schools will not truly be 'open.'"

[Kevin Bardosh @KevinBardosh]

📢 Our paper on COVID-19 vaccine policy has been published💉🦠

We discuss 12 unintended consequences of mandates and passports across society

& argue that pandemic vaccine policies have caused more social harm than good

Read the paper: https://t.co/TeyTki0nWI

[Illegal Phil @illegal_phil]

@CAPublicHealth Is this the same kindness you showed to teachers when you threatened to have their credentials revoked if they didn’t constantly force their kindergartners to keep their masks on 7 hours a day?

What a legacy for @DrTomasAragon to leave behind.

[Dr. Jeanne Noble @JeanneNoble18]

Just published Spanish study: "Mask mandates in schools were not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 incidence or transmission, suggesting that this intervention was not effective." Reaction & analysis from CDPH forthcoming? @ericapanMD_CDPH @DrTomasAragon
https://t.co/6WHSVsaU0X

[CA Parent Power @CAParentPower]

I don’t know how you can call yourself a national model when CA is 1 of 3 remaining states to not allow masks to be optional in schools or set a date.

Allow masks to be optional in CA schools on March 1, we’d call that a “smarter” approach

[Jonathan Zachreson @JZachreson]

BREAKING: In a 4-0 vote, RJUHSD passes a resolution giving mask-choice to students effective 2/15, when the state-wide indoor mask mandate expires. Almost all public comment in a packed board meeting favored mask-choice. Very proud of my kids’ home school district!

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

Update from the Fargo, North Dakota masking study:
Two neighboring K-12 districts (same community) both with around 12,000 students
🔵 Mask mandate
🟡 Masks optional (<5% masking)
Y axis= % of students positive for covid
Green vertical line: when🔵 went masks optional

[Jenin Younes @JeninYounesEsq]

I’m glad Bari Weiss gets it now, but it’s kind of annoying to those of us who got it from day one to hear people like her talk about how “now” it’s obvious that cloth masks do nothing and we’re psychologically damaging children. Some of us saw it all along. And she wasn’t one.

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

From a UK perspective, this seems as absurd as if, instead of Boris Johnson's party leaking to the press after several months, he had just tweeted out a picture of it in real time mid-lockdown.

[Stephanie H. Murray @stephmurrayyyy]

This is evil, right? Like I know I've been tweeting some stuff that's making a lot of my American followers uncomfortable lately, but surely you must agree that this is just utterly backward, evil nonsense, right?

[MG @mgelizabethx]

PETITION: We are writing to ask California officials to acknowledge the endemic nature of COVID-19 after the Omicron surge and immediately shift our public dialogue toward defining a path for removing all remaining COVID-19 restrictions in public schools.
https://t.co/VK02TEexKu

[Dr. Jeanne Noble @JeanneNoble18]

SF parent's reflections on our COVID policies: "The answer now is not to make children mask even harder, or test more often...The answer is to finally prioritize children’s well-being over adult anxieties and give them their normal lives back." https://t.co/cT5bshKHV4

[CA Parent Power @CAParentPower]

We've signed onto this letter - read and share widely!
#keepschoolsopen

Coalition of Parent Advocate Groups Issue Urgent Call to Keep Schools Open
https://t.co/NCmqQ8Izyd

[Illegal Phil @illegal_phil]

SCHOOLS MUST STAY OPEN! Our joint statement with parent groups across the US:

"We cannot move backwards: we must move forward and restore normalcy, which centers on in-person school for all kids...devoid of unnecessary restrictions"

#keepschoolsopen

https://t.co/XQnmJYUWip

[Illegal Phil @illegal_phil]

@ashishkjha They cant stay open if we keep quarantining every teacher exposed to a positive case. Have to change the rules first.

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government. Discussion and engagement would have been a better path.