My 7-year-old daughter had been diagnosed with Type1 diabetes 07/2019. An incurable autoimmune disease. We are on constant high alert as she walks the line of life and death daily I learned something quickly into diagnosis, other worlds dont stop turning because mine did. Outside of my immediate family no one is affected if MY child dies from this stupid disease. Yet, people are quick to ask her and her family to place a mask on their faces and get vaccines for the protection of others. Where is her protection? If Ariel becomes sick her disease can become unmanageable and she can become hospitalized within hours. C19 was different for her. My daughter had a low-grade fever for less than 12 hours. No issues with blood sugar,no hospital,NOTHING. C19 has been shoved down our throats as EXTREMELY dangerous to children.How? Even kids with severe autoimmune issues are coming out unscathed. I WILL NOT FORCE my kids to "protect" others that don’t care if she lives or dies YOUR BODY YOUR CHOICE
The anti-mask crowd will be the same ones up in arms when there are quarantines and possibly having to go remote again. Please listen to the experts and science when it comes to protecting our kids. We all really want the same thing, (as close to normal of a school year without disruptions). The easiest and least costly of which is preventative measures to mitigate the number of cases. It really doesn't have to be so divisive. Keeping kids in school and keeping kids safe means everyone needs to wear a mask and please get vaccinated so we can get through this.
Please opt out of this mask mandate for our children. Think about all of the cons that will occur by making our young children wear a mask for hours at a time. Children have a hard enough time as it is focusing at school. Now imagine them having to wear a mask all day and how much fidgeting is going to come along with that. Their hands will constantly be around their faces messing and adjusting their masks. Now tell me how that is going to stop COVID or anything else from spreading. Children deserve to have uninterrupted education time! They need to be able to learn the right way and not be hid by a mask. They need to be able to show their smiles and any other emotion they need to get across. The least you can do is give parents a choice in this.
I am asking the ADCO BOCC to vote to opt-out of the TCHD mask mandate for public schools. The science does not lie, and shows that public school mask mandates are not effective in stopping the spread of any variant of the COVID virus. The CDC failed to promote any study that counters the American Federation of Teacher's stance that all children need to masked. In a study titled "Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools". Researchers found no difference in infection rates between mandating masks and using ONLY HEPA filters. With no benefits to mandating masks, the consequences such as delayed speech development outweighs the benefits. Public opinion is also not in favor of a mandate, as demonstrated by the recent online TCHD mask poll where over 60% of ADCO respondents oppose a mandate. A failure to listen to a majority of ADCO constituents may result in recall measures for BOCC members. Please leave the decision to the students' parents
I am a parent of two children in the 2-11 age group who attend 27j schools and I am asking that you listen to the people. All we want is to be able to choose; nothing more and nothing less!
Requiring a facial covering on my 5 and 7 year olds isn’t going to stop the spread of germs. My daughter, who was masked all year long 2020-2021, was quarantined at home on numerous occasions, all while wearing a mask!
I understand there are those who want their children masked and I respect that. All I ask, is that they return the same respect for those of us who believe it isn’t the best choice for their families.
My daughter is refused her right to her education for not wearing a mask. Do you see how incredibly ridiculous this is? Not to mention illegal! She should NOT be turned away by her teachers over a mask. They should treat each student equal whether or not a mask is on their face. This has become a time of tyranny, and all my daughter wants, is an education. She shouldn’t be put in a place of political-ness. She shouldn’t have to worry about these things. This isn’t her fight. Children are taught they don’t have authority, yet my daughter is now learning at a very early age, that you do not own her. She is hanging to stand up for herself and advocate for herself. These masks are teaching children that the oxygen around them are not safe. This is indoctrination, and will not be tolerated. LET THEM BREATHE! LET THEM CHOOSE!
Please do not take one more choice away from the parents. The decision of whether to mask a child or not should be placed in the hands of the parent not the county. There are way too many articles promoted by Health professionals that oppose masking children for the sake of preventing Covid. Here are just a few:
There are plenty more articles that oppose masking children. I realize that even within the medical professional community there are opposing views on this. If they can’t even agree why does the county believe that they can make the best choice for each child?
You must opt out of the mask mandate put in place by Tri-County Health. They have no interest in our children and could care less about Adams County! Give us a choice!
As a mother of 3 and a Pediatric ICU nurse, I am appalled by the blatant disregard that all of you have for the residents you are here to represent. My children do not deserve to be muzzled and their freedoms to be stripped away by a virus that does not affect children in the way that the media portrays!
I have been on the frontlines for the past 18 months, but guess what, we were not busy with children sick with Covid. We were used as an overflow for adult patients! We were even sending nurses home because we didn’t have patients for them to care for! And now, a year and a half later, we are still not busy with sick covid patients! We appear busy because we have lost our staffing! Many are tired and are forced to quit in order to homeschool their children due to crazy mandates like this! Give us back our choice!
Please listen to health experts, both locally and nationally, and enforce the mask mandate for children in schools. This is not only for their physical health but also for their mental health. Without masks, schools will experience shut downs, which will disrupt the lives of children in schools as they will be forced to return to remote learning. Additionally, children who do contract COVID will be forced to isolate/quarantine, which has shown to increase depression and anxiety in children. Masks do not cause bacterial pneumonia, an idea that comes from the 1918 Spanish flu when it was not known that bacterial pneumonia was a side effect of the flu. Masks do not cause developmental delays in children for speech or otherwise, as stated by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The health and safety of children is not something that should be decided by public opinion but rather by the advice and evidence provided by experts.
Please opt of of the recently passed mask mandate for children 2-11 years old, let this be the parents choice. We have a right to freedom of health and mandating masks is taking that right away. As Dr. Linda Fielding and Kim Muramoto mentioned during the Tri-County Health board meeting mandated masks is causing so many health and learning issues for children. Let the parents decide what is right for their children.
I'm a father of 2 Strasburg Elementary School boys, age 4 & 10. I oppose a mandate, the decision should be left to the parents. 1 in 100K kids have been hospitalized by COVID & adults have the choice to get vaccinated. According to CDC & Census data, there are 73 million kids aged 0-17 & roughly 375 have died. This disease does not affect our kids the same as adults & I'd wager they don't transmit it as often too. While there is evidence that vaxxed people can still transmit COVID, non-N95 masks are less than 2% effective in preventing transmission of aerosol particles. While I understand the fears of some, non-N95 masks are simply not effective & we should not be punishing the kids for this. They don't wear the masks properly either. Additionally, the younger aged kids will experience a developmental social delay by not being able to read/see the faces of their classmates & teachers. There are far more disadvantages to masking children than advantages. Please opt out!
I think Adams County should opt out of the Tri-County Health mask mandate for kids 2 to 11. I think the County should leave the decision to mandate masks in the hands of the individual school districts, since different districts have different COVID rates. If a parent wants to send their kid to school wearing a mask, that is their prerogative. If a child is immunocompromised, their parents can choose to keep them out of school. Don't punish all of our kids and their teachers at this point.
Please opt out of mask mandates. As parents, we should have the right to decide what is best for our children (especially preschoolers). Children this young can't be expected to wear a mask for long periods of time or wear them properly without constant parent guidance. They should be free to experience school without the suffocation and restriction of a mask. The parents of the child should be able to asses the risk and rewards of wearing a mask and make the decision that is best for their family.
My son has a processing disorder (among other things) and is struggling with peer relationships and social cues. Being able to read emotions has been extremely difficult due to mask wearing. Yes, I believe Covid is very serious as I am a survivor of a Covid variant that caused extreme health issues that has been ongoing for months. My children have all been positive for Covid with very little to no symptoms. We avoided people, wore our masks and washed our hands, yet still all got sick. Over the last year, my son has progressively gotten worse with peer relationships and I believe it is due to masks. Please allow parents to choose to mask or unmask our kids, because it is more than just a virus we are considering when making that choice. Thank you.
I vote to opt out of the mandate. Adams county has done nothing to support the people of Adams County when the majority of your people don't want this. You "outsource" your public health guidance to a third party (TCHD) with no checks that what they are developing and implementing in your county, for your people, makes sense and is what they want. In addition, your communication on this matter has been poor at best. I have ask you all multiple time what are we doing this for? what metrics are you basing your decision on (beside TCHD telling to to do it)? End this mandate, please, for our kids. I want to raise my boys to be leaders, innovators, and enrich their creativity, because us parents at home, we've seen the effect already of this pandemic. I'm not here to be a father that raises robots, I'm a father that want to raise men....and you're getting in my way.
Please opt out of this idiotic mask mandate for children. Nothing supports the idea that young healthy immune systems are at risk. Putting masks on young children put them at risk for many other things. Children are innately gross and putting a mask over them when the majority of adults don’t wear masks properly is dumb, let alone harmful. I’ve been trained through my healthcare degree in donning and doffing PPE, children are not. Children are not at risk of COVID and pretending they are is only hurting them, socially, physically, and intellectually. No one elected the CDC, and they’ve been wrong this whole pandemic more than a weatherman. Immune systems end pandemics NOT vaccines, let our young healthy immune systems do their job and stop suppressing them. We have entrusted you all with power and to be OUR voice, not our doctors. Children need to socialize, build relationships, see faces, see emotions, see oral movements to learn language. Please, be advocates for our children.
Please OPT OUT of the mask mandate. The school staff did an amazing job keeping students safe while in person learning through the pandemic. It is the parents choice choice and right to make these decisions for their child(ren).
SARS-CoV-2 has affected all of us in one way or another. Sadly, governments and so-called "medical experts" like the CDC, CDPHE, and TCHD have had a far greater negative impact on our lives than the virus itself. Cloth masks do not work at stopping the virus! That is not me saying that, those are Epidemiologists from Oxford University (the top university in the world) saying that!
https://unherd.com/thepost/oxford-epidemiologists-suppression-strategy-is-not-viable/
We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all people, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. Do not fall trap to this false "authority".
"We the People" are watching, and I promise you that should you vote to uphold this mask mandate against our children aged 2-11, we will not rest until you are removed from office!
Do not mandate masks! Not now! Not Ever!! Just Opt Out!!
I am requesting that Adams County OPT OUT of the Tri-County Health Department's mandatory mask mandate for children 2-11 years old. As a parent I should have to authority to make the decision. These children will be destroying their immune system and they will be to a point where they will not even be able to fight off the common cold. The mental and social health of our students is important. Kids are constantly touching their masks, taking them on and off as they enter and exit building. They are not protecting them or anyone else, the mask is dirty. The masks become contaminated and then those mask with the germs are be placed back on kids, remaining on their mouth/nose for hours. We have already spoken through a survey regarding this, the majority oppose any mask mandate. If parents want to send their child in a mask to school they have the authority as the parent to make that choice. Allow parents the same authority in making the choice to not send their child to school in a mask.
My 7-year-old daughter had been diagnosed with Type1 diabetes 07/2019. An incurable autoimmune disease. We are on constant high alert as she walks the line of life and death daily I learned something quickly into diagnosis, other worlds dont stop turning because mine did. Outside of my immediate family no one is affected if MY child dies from this stupid disease. Yet, people are quick to ask her and her family to place a mask on their faces and get vaccines for the protection of others. Where is her protection? If Ariel becomes sick her disease can become unmanageable and she can become hospitalized within hours. C19 was different for her. My daughter had a low-grade fever for less than 12 hours. No issues with blood sugar,no hospital,NOTHING. C19 has been shoved down our throats as EXTREMELY dangerous to children.How? Even kids with severe autoimmune issues are coming out unscathed. I WILL NOT FORCE my kids to "protect" others that don’t care if she lives or dies YOUR BODY YOUR CHOICE
The anti-mask crowd will be the same ones up in arms when there are quarantines and possibly having to go remote again. Please listen to the experts and science when it comes to protecting our kids. We all really want the same thing, (as close to normal of a school year without disruptions). The easiest and least costly of which is preventative measures to mitigate the number of cases. It really doesn't have to be so divisive. Keeping kids in school and keeping kids safe means everyone needs to wear a mask and please get vaccinated so we can get through this.
Please opt out of this mask mandate for our children. Think about all of the cons that will occur by making our young children wear a mask for hours at a time. Children have a hard enough time as it is focusing at school. Now imagine them having to wear a mask all day and how much fidgeting is going to come along with that. Their hands will constantly be around their faces messing and adjusting their masks. Now tell me how that is going to stop COVID or anything else from spreading. Children deserve to have uninterrupted education time! They need to be able to learn the right way and not be hid by a mask. They need to be able to show their smiles and any other emotion they need to get across. The least you can do is give parents a choice in this.
I am asking the ADCO BOCC to vote to opt-out of the TCHD mask mandate for public schools. The science does not lie, and shows that public school mask mandates are not effective in stopping the spread of any variant of the COVID virus. The CDC failed to promote any study that counters the American Federation of Teacher's stance that all children need to masked. In a study titled "Mask Use and Ventilation Improvements to Reduce COVID-19 Incidence in Elementary Schools". Researchers found no difference in infection rates between mandating masks and using ONLY HEPA filters. With no benefits to mandating masks, the consequences such as delayed speech development outweighs the benefits. Public opinion is also not in favor of a mandate, as demonstrated by the recent online TCHD mask poll where over 60% of ADCO respondents oppose a mandate. A failure to listen to a majority of ADCO constituents may result in recall measures for BOCC members. Please leave the decision to the students' parents
I am a parent of two children in the 2-11 age group who attend 27j schools and I am asking that you listen to the people. All we want is to be able to choose; nothing more and nothing less!
Requiring a facial covering on my 5 and 7 year olds isn’t going to stop the spread of germs. My daughter, who was masked all year long 2020-2021, was quarantined at home on numerous occasions, all while wearing a mask!
I understand there are those who want their children masked and I respect that. All I ask, is that they return the same respect for those of us who believe it isn’t the best choice for their families.
Give us the freedom to choose!
My daughter is refused her right to her education for not wearing a mask. Do you see how incredibly ridiculous this is? Not to mention illegal! She should NOT be turned away by her teachers over a mask. They should treat each student equal whether or not a mask is on their face. This has become a time of tyranny, and all my daughter wants, is an education. She shouldn’t be put in a place of political-ness. She shouldn’t have to worry about these things. This isn’t her fight. Children are taught they don’t have authority, yet my daughter is now learning at a very early age, that you do not own her. She is hanging to stand up for herself and advocate for herself. These masks are teaching children that the oxygen around them are not safe. This is indoctrination, and will not be tolerated. LET THEM BREATHE! LET THEM CHOOSE!
Please do not take one more choice away from the parents. The decision of whether to mask a child or not should be placed in the hands of the parent not the county. There are way too many articles promoted by Health professionals that oppose masking children for the sake of preventing Covid. Here are just a few:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/masking-children-what-does-the-science-say
https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/mandatory-masking-of-school-children-is-a-bad-idea/
There are plenty more articles that oppose masking children. I realize that even within the medical professional community there are opposing views on this. If they can’t even agree why does the county believe that they can make the best choice for each child?
You must opt out of the mask mandate put in place by Tri-County Health. They have no interest in our children and could care less about Adams County! Give us a choice!
As a mother of 3 and a Pediatric ICU nurse, I am appalled by the blatant disregard that all of you have for the residents you are here to represent. My children do not deserve to be muzzled and their freedoms to be stripped away by a virus that does not affect children in the way that the media portrays!
I have been on the frontlines for the past 18 months, but guess what, we were not busy with children sick with Covid. We were used as an overflow for adult patients! We were even sending nurses home because we didn’t have patients for them to care for! And now, a year and a half later, we are still not busy with sick covid patients! We appear busy because we have lost our staffing! Many are tired and are forced to quit in order to homeschool their children due to crazy mandates like this! Give us back our choice!
Please listen to health experts, both locally and nationally, and enforce the mask mandate for children in schools. This is not only for their physical health but also for their mental health. Without masks, schools will experience shut downs, which will disrupt the lives of children in schools as they will be forced to return to remote learning. Additionally, children who do contract COVID will be forced to isolate/quarantine, which has shown to increase depression and anxiety in children. Masks do not cause bacterial pneumonia, an idea that comes from the 1918 Spanish flu when it was not known that bacterial pneumonia was a side effect of the flu. Masks do not cause developmental delays in children for speech or otherwise, as stated by the American Academy of Pediatrics. The health and safety of children is not something that should be decided by public opinion but rather by the advice and evidence provided by experts.
Please opt of of the recently passed mask mandate for children 2-11 years old, let this be the parents choice. We have a right to freedom of health and mandating masks is taking that right away. As Dr. Linda Fielding and Kim Muramoto mentioned during the Tri-County Health board meeting mandated masks is causing so many health and learning issues for children. Let the parents decide what is right for their children.
I'm a father of 2 Strasburg Elementary School boys, age 4 & 10. I oppose a mandate, the decision should be left to the parents. 1 in 100K kids have been hospitalized by COVID & adults have the choice to get vaccinated. According to CDC & Census data, there are 73 million kids aged 0-17 & roughly 375 have died. This disease does not affect our kids the same as adults & I'd wager they don't transmit it as often too. While there is evidence that vaxxed people can still transmit COVID, non-N95 masks are less than 2% effective in preventing transmission of aerosol particles. While I understand the fears of some, non-N95 masks are simply not effective & we should not be punishing the kids for this. They don't wear the masks properly either. Additionally, the younger aged kids will experience a developmental social delay by not being able to read/see the faces of their classmates & teachers. There are far more disadvantages to masking children than advantages. Please opt out!
I think Adams County should opt out of the Tri-County Health mask mandate for kids 2 to 11. I think the County should leave the decision to mandate masks in the hands of the individual school districts, since different districts have different COVID rates. If a parent wants to send their kid to school wearing a mask, that is their prerogative. If a child is immunocompromised, their parents can choose to keep them out of school. Don't punish all of our kids and their teachers at this point.
Please opt out of mask mandates. As parents, we should have the right to decide what is best for our children (especially preschoolers). Children this young can't be expected to wear a mask for long periods of time or wear them properly without constant parent guidance. They should be free to experience school without the suffocation and restriction of a mask. The parents of the child should be able to asses the risk and rewards of wearing a mask and make the decision that is best for their family.
My son has a processing disorder (among other things) and is struggling with peer relationships and social cues. Being able to read emotions has been extremely difficult due to mask wearing. Yes, I believe Covid is very serious as I am a survivor of a Covid variant that caused extreme health issues that has been ongoing for months. My children have all been positive for Covid with very little to no symptoms. We avoided people, wore our masks and washed our hands, yet still all got sick. Over the last year, my son has progressively gotten worse with peer relationships and I believe it is due to masks. Please allow parents to choose to mask or unmask our kids, because it is more than just a virus we are considering when making that choice. Thank you.
I vote to opt out of the mandate. Adams county has done nothing to support the people of Adams County when the majority of your people don't want this. You "outsource" your public health guidance to a third party (TCHD) with no checks that what they are developing and implementing in your county, for your people, makes sense and is what they want. In addition, your communication on this matter has been poor at best. I have ask you all multiple time what are we doing this for? what metrics are you basing your decision on (beside TCHD telling to to do it)? End this mandate, please, for our kids. I want to raise my boys to be leaders, innovators, and enrich their creativity, because us parents at home, we've seen the effect already of this pandemic. I'm not here to be a father that raises robots, I'm a father that want to raise men....and you're getting in my way.
Please opt out of this idiotic mask mandate for children. Nothing supports the idea that young healthy immune systems are at risk. Putting masks on young children put them at risk for many other things. Children are innately gross and putting a mask over them when the majority of adults don’t wear masks properly is dumb, let alone harmful. I’ve been trained through my healthcare degree in donning and doffing PPE, children are not. Children are not at risk of COVID and pretending they are is only hurting them, socially, physically, and intellectually. No one elected the CDC, and they’ve been wrong this whole pandemic more than a weatherman. Immune systems end pandemics NOT vaccines, let our young healthy immune systems do their job and stop suppressing them. We have entrusted you all with power and to be OUR voice, not our doctors. Children need to socialize, build relationships, see faces, see emotions, see oral movements to learn language. Please, be advocates for our children.
Please opt out of mask mandates. Allow parents to decide what is best for their children.
Please OPT OUT of the mask mandate. The school staff did an amazing job keeping students safe while in person learning through the pandemic. It is the parents choice choice and right to make these decisions for their child(ren).
Adams County Commissioners,
SARS-CoV-2 has affected all of us in one way or another. Sadly, governments and so-called "medical experts" like the CDC, CDPHE, and TCHD have had a far greater negative impact on our lives than the virus itself. Cloth masks do not work at stopping the virus! That is not me saying that, those are Epidemiologists from Oxford University (the top university in the world) saying that!
https://unherd.com/thepost/oxford-epidemiologists-suppression-strategy-is-not-viable/
We have learned by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all people, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion. Do not fall trap to this false "authority".
"We the People" are watching, and I promise you that should you vote to uphold this mask mandate against our children aged 2-11, we will not rest until you are removed from office!
Do not mandate masks! Not now! Not Ever!! Just Opt Out!!
I am requesting that Adams County OPT OUT of the Tri-County Health Department's mandatory mask mandate for children 2-11 years old. As a parent I should have to authority to make the decision. These children will be destroying their immune system and they will be to a point where they will not even be able to fight off the common cold. The mental and social health of our students is important. Kids are constantly touching their masks, taking them on and off as they enter and exit building. They are not protecting them or anyone else, the mask is dirty. The masks become contaminated and then those mask with the germs are be placed back on kids, remaining on their mouth/nose for hours. We have already spoken through a survey regarding this, the majority oppose any mask mandate. If parents want to send their child in a mask to school they have the authority as the parent to make that choice. Allow parents the same authority in making the choice to not send their child to school in a mask.