Masking the Unvaccinated: State-Sponsored Child Abuse

Colorado school districts are making decisions and planning for the upcoming school year, including what COVID-19 protocols they will be utilizing. The biggest point of contention will be whether students who haven’t received a COVID-19 vaccine will be permitted to return to the classroom without wearing a face mask. The question we must ask: Given the overwhelming evidence, why is this even an issue?

Where Things Stand

Denver Public Schools has yet to formally decide what will be required of unvaccinated students, indicating via their website that “Some health protocols (such as the use of masks, avoiding large gatherings, etc.) may still be in place.”

Douglas County Schools has adopted a much more scientific approach, although in a nod to the current government “wisdom” they are “strongly recommending” masks for all students. The district states, “We will honor the decision of parents when it comes to their children wearing or not wearing a face covering in school” and “Behavior such as ‘mask shaming’ will not be tolerated,” indicating that the district intends to return to a relatively normal learning environment.

Jefferson County Public Schools last updated their guidance in June (which according to the update includes the 2021-2022 school year), indicating that students age 12 and over would still be required to mask up if they weren’t fully vaccinated. Of these three largest districts in Colorado, Jeffco seems to have adopted the formal position that unvaccinated students will be forced to wear masks in the fall.

What the Evidence Says

The Wall Street Journal referred its readers to a John Hopkins study of approximately 48,000 school-aged children that indicated the risk of COVID-19 death among those under 18 without serious comorbidities was zero. Not close to zero – zero. The only children who were recorded as COVID-19 deaths were those who had major comorbidities like leukemia, clearly indicating that COVID-19 was not the cause of death. Dr. Marty Makary, the professor at John Hopkins who headlined the study, said that the CDC was using “flimsy evidence” to push COVID-19 vaccines upon children.

Robert Malone, inventor of the mRNA technology used in many coronavirus vaccines, wrote:

Beyond the fact that the risk from COVID-19 to children is laughably non-existent, there is a provable history of children being harmed by the administration of unneeded or poorly understood vaccines – including 10 children reportedly dying in the Philippines after being vaccinated against dengue, a controversy that resulted in the indictment of 14 government officials. Or the Scandanavian and British kids who couldn’t sleep after being given a vaccine against H1N1. Drug companies seem hellbent on getting their vaccines into the arms of children, despite the Infection Fatality Rate of 0.003% (and this includes the kids who actually died of leukemia), with companies like Moderna engaging in human trials in children.

The sheer audacity of the lie that school-aged children are at risk from COVID-19 at all causes people to think there must be something to the claim. In truth, the 23% increase in child suicide from 2019 to 2020 resulting from the forced deprivation of the educational, emotional, and social development of our youth is far more concerning than any supposed risk from this virus.

Continuing to force masks onto the faces of students despite the fact that it will expose their private medical data to the world (masks for the unvaccinated, faces for the vaccinated) and the mounting evidence of harm due to mask use is compliance theater and mere symbolism meant to shame families and children who have made different health decisions. By no stretch of the imagination can it be claimed that face masks on school children are medically necessary – only that they are necessary as a cudgel to shame these children and their parents into submitting to an experimental and entirely unnecessary vaccine. It is state-sponsored child abuse.

Parents Must Stand Up

Children have no risk at all for serious consequences from a COVID-19 infection. In fact, most children have likely already been exposed to the virus – they had COVID-19 by the new epidemiological standard and their immune systems defeated the virus, we just didn’t know it. Masks efficacy in stopping the spread of airborne, aerosolized viruses has been disproven over and over, but even if masks were effective we would be reducing spread among a zero-risk population whose lack of symptomatic COVID-19 prevents them from being vectors for spread.

Continuing the shameful and abusive practice of masking children in school is nothing but a public symbol of non-compliance designed to get the unvaccinated to submit. It is the COVID-era equivalent of the yellow armband or the scarlet letter, and is entirely without scientific merit and moral principle. Parents must say no, loudly and publicly.