{"id":600637,"date":"2021-07-22T18:05:56","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600637"},"modified":"2021-07-22T18:05:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T22:05:59","slug":"desantis-stands-tough-against-mask-mandates-for-kids-psaki-attacks-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-stands-tough-against-mask-mandates-for-kids-psaki-attacks-him\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Stands Tough Against Mask Mandates For Kids. Psaki Attacks Him."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdesantis-stands-tough-against-mask-mandates-for-kids-psaki-attacks-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=600637&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/0FD8A84F-6372-47A2-A1DD-EE990AB4F799-scaled-e1626990382173.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis staunchly defended his position that he would not impose a mask mandate on schoolchildren in the upcoming school year, saying, \u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be any coercive mandates on our schools,\u201d adding, \u201cWe certainly will not have any mandates on students and on parents in the upcoming school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis warned that the federal government might try to impose mask mandates, asserting, \u201cThere\u2019s been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory masks on kids, we\u2019re not doing that in Florida, okay? We need our kids to breathe; we need our kids to be able to be kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An ABC News White House correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki about DeSantis\u2019 remarks at a press briefing. Psaki, who has young children of her own, said that \u201cas a parent,\u201d DeSantis\u2019 position was \u201cgreatly concerning\u201d to her, adding, \u201cThat puts kids at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ABC News\u2019 Karen Travers, eager to attack DeSantis, prompted Psaki by saying, \u201cFlorida Governor DeSantis was talking about mask mandates for kids earlier this morning. And he said, \u2018We\u2019re not doing that in Florida. We need our kids to breathe. We need our kids to be able to be kids.\u2019 He said, \u2018It\u2019s terribly uncomfortable for them to do it.\u2019 That obviously goes against the CDC guidance for kids under 12 who aren\u2019t vaccinated and what the president said last night. Is that putting kids in Florida at risk?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, as a parent myself, and I know you are one, if I were a parent in Florida, that would be greatly concerning to me, because kids under the age of 12 are not vaccinated,\u201d Psaki snapped. \u201cThey\u2019re not eligible yet. As the president said last night, obviously it\u2019s going to be led by the FDA, but certainly we hope that will be soon. But that puts kids at risk. It\u2019s not aligned with public health guidelines. We know masks are not the most comfortable thing. I will say, my kids are quite adjusted to them, as I know many kids are. So certainly we would have concern about any step that doesn\u2019t abide by public health guidelines, and we think it puts people at greater risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.7643312101911\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Psaki says it&#8217;s &#8220;greatly concerning&#8221; DeSantis refuses to implement mask mandates in schools <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AKgzeQl7X6\">pic.twitter.com\/AKgzeQl7X6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1418264417410633729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier Thursday morning, at a ceremonial signing of Florida\u2019s House Bill 3, aka the \u201cNew Worlds Reading Initiative,\u201d which is designed to help children in kindergarten through fifth grade reading below grade level, DeSantis stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p><em>Excited about the upcoming school year; I think if you remember this time last year there were many parts of the country that wouldn\u2019t open their schools. We thought it was very important that parents had access to in-person education; we were able to do it. It was \u2014 unique circumstances, I think our school districts, most of them did a really, really good job \u2014 and I know a lot of teachers were instrumental in getting the kids back in as well, so I want to thank everyone for doing that. We look forward to the upcoming year to be a normal school year, be in person, and learn like normal kids.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Then DeSantis turned to the federal government: \u201cThere\u2019s been talk about potentially people advocating at the federal level imposing compulsory masks on kids; we\u2019re not doing that in Florida, okay? We need our kids to breathe; we need our kids to be able to be kids. We need our kids to able to breathe. It\u2019s terribly uncomfortable for them to do it \u2014 not very much science behind it. There\u2019s some schools we had, didn\u2019t do masks, others did, the outcomes were not meaningfully different, and so I think it\u2019s really important that \u2014 parents obviously can equip their kid to go to school however they want, but there shouldn\u2019t be any coercive mandates on our schools, and so we want to make sure that as of right now, all the school districts are going in that direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is going to be, it looks like, a campaign from Washington to try to change that,\u201d he warned, \u201cand I\u2019ve talked to [Florida House Speaker] Chris Sprowls; if we need to bring them back in to be able to do something from the legislative perspective, he\u2019s all in to be able to do it and I know people will do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, we\u2019ve got to start putting our kids first,\u201d DeSantis asserted. \u201cWe gotta look out for their education. Is it really comfortable? Is it really healthy for them to be muzzled and have their breathing obstructed all day long in school? I don\u2019t think it is. I\u2019ve got a three-year-old son, and you got people like Fauci saying he should be muzzled, that you should be throwing masks on these three-year-old kids. It\u2019s totally unacceptable and certainly unacceptable to have any level of government imposing that on parents and on kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cAnd so we look forward to a normal school year, obviously parents can make decisions how they want to, we wouldn\u2019t restrict that, but we certainly will not have any mandates on students and on parents in the upcoming school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gov. DeSantis holds press conference in Fort Pierce\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Ku2icQrF6k?start=1006&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/schools-childcare\/k-12-guidance.html\">CDC Guidance<\/a>: \u201cMasks should be worn indoors by all individuals (age 2 and older) who are not fully vaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">John Tierney, a contributing science columnist for The New York Times, has argued against mask-wearing&nbsp;for children, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/masking-children-unnecessary-and-harmful?wallit_nosession=1\">stating<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12.97984496124\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>A year of mask-wearing will scar some of them psychologically\u2014and maybe physically, too, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC7302120\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a team of Italian professors of plastic surgery<\/a>, who warn that the prolonged pressure from the elastic straps could leave young children with permanently protruding ears. By hiding teachers\u2019 lips and muffling their speech, mask-wearing makes it harder for young children to develop linguistic skills and prevents children with hearing impairments from lip reading. Unable to rely on facial cues, teachers and students of all ages are more likely to misinterpret one other, a particularly acute problem for children on the autism spectrum.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis staunchly defended his position that he would not impose a mask mandate on schoolchildren in the upcoming school year, saying, \u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}