{"id":604107,"date":"2021-07-27T16:51:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=604107"},"modified":"2021-07-27T16:51:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T20:51:38","slug":"it-isnt-based-in-science-desantiss-office-blasts-cdc-over-k-12-in-school-mask-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-isnt-based-in-science-desantiss-office-blasts-cdc-over-k-12-in-school-mask-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Isn\u2019t Based In Science\u2019: DeSantis\u2019s Office Blasts CDC Over K-12 In-School Mask Guidelines"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fit-isnt-based-in-science-desantiss-office-blasts-cdc-over-k-12-in-school-mask-guidelines%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=604107&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\/06\/Ron-DeSantis-6-scaled-e1624318480198.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s office blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tuesday for suggesting that all individuals in K-12 schools should wear face masks regardless of whether they\u2019ve been vaccinated, castigating the agency for what he called an unscientific approach to the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC revised its guidelines for mask-wearing on Tuesday, announcing that, in light of the spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, it was returning to recommending indoor mask-wearing, even for vaccinated individuals, if they are living in areas where COVID-19 cases are spiking. The CDC also recommended that, in order to return to full-time in-person instruction, all individuals in K-12 institutions mask up, even if they are fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis\u2019s spokesperson criticized the latter approach, rebuking the CDC and reiterating the Florida governor\u2019s long-held position, opposing mask mandates for children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t based in science. There is no indication that areas with mask mandates have performed any better than areas without mask mandates. In fact, this policy could actually backfire,\u201d DeSantis press secretary Christina Pushaw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-cdc-k-12-students-mask-not-based-science\">told Fox News on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMandating masks for vaccinated people erodes public trust and confidence in the effectiveness of the vaccines. To me it appears that the government wants to be perceived as \u2018doing something\u2019 during a seasonal infection surge, even if their policy does not necessarily make people safer,&#8217;\u201d Pushaw added.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis himself has been vocally opposed to mandating masks for children who attend school in person, telling a roundtable event on Monday that \u201cour view\u201d is that \u201cthis should absolutely not be imposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think our fear is&nbsp;that seeing some of those rumblings, that there be an&nbsp;attempt from the federal level or even some of these organizations to try to push for mandatory masking of school children. And so our view is that this should absolutely not be imposed,\u201d DeSantis said at the event. \u201cIt should not be mandated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I]n Florida, at this point, our school districts have proposed the mask [as] optional,\u201d DeSantis noted. He even went so far as to say that the Florida legislature is \u201cinterested in coming in, even in a special session to be able to provide protections for parents and kids who just want to breathe freely and don\u2019t want to be suffering under these masks during the school year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire noted earlier Tuesday, the CDC appears to have followed recommendations made by the nation\u2019s largest teachers unions \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/press-release\/afts-weingarten-sends-letter-mask-guidance-education-department-cdc\">American Federation of <\/a>Teachers and&nbsp;the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nea.org\/professional-excellence\/student-engagement\/tools-tips\/ensuring-safe-and-just-schools-masking\">National Education Association<\/a> \u2014 in suggesting that&nbsp;\u201ceveryone in K-12 schools wear a mask, regardless of their vaccination status,\u201d per CNN.<\/p>\n<p>AFT president Randi Weingarten, who reportedly had a direct influence on CDC policy regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/teachers-union-randi-weingarten-biden-cdc-language\" rel=\"noopener\">a return to classrooms for in-person instruction<\/a>, according to Fox News, has continued \u201cto push for face masks to be worn in schools,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nations-largest-teachers-union-will-still-push-masks-schools-despite-new-cdc-guidance-1591542\">per Newsweek<\/a>, even though nearly 90% of teachers who belong to the AFT are vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p><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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s office blasted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Tuesday for suggesting that all individuals in K-12 schools should wear face masks regardless of whether &#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-604107","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\/604107","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=604107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604107\/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=604107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}