The St. Paul school board voted to keep masks on kids.
Bear in mind, the districts “Director of public health and wellness” recommended dropping the mandate:
“Effective 12:01 a.m. on March 28, that we move forward with the following changes: Masks are not required with low- to medium-community case rates in Ramsey County,” Langworthy said while presenting a slide with numbers.
One of the boards members responded (with emphasis added):
Concerned board members argued taking action, based on numbers that would be delivered with a delay, would be too late.
“If it was from the previous week’s data, we receive it the following Thursday and then we implement masks on Monday, we’d be implementing it from previous weeks’ data though, correct?” board member Chauntyll Allen said. “So, the surge would be happening, basically. It would already be happening — we wouldn’t have masks, we would find out about it on Thursday, and we would implement masks Monday — but from Tuesday or Wednesday the week before until Thursday, students would still be walking around without masks as the surge is existing.”
Ms. Allen has done an admirable, If inadvertent, job of illustrating Kevin Williamson’s thesis that politics is the least efficient possible way of getting anything that matters done.
As far as making public health decisions there anything but reflections of the current state of political logrolling?
You know where I’m going with this, right?
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