Democrat schools require students to obey their lawless requirements due to unscientific suggestions
Schools get creative trying to defy state bans on mask mandates
The Washington Examiner points out how Democrat-led schools have defied state mandates to allow parents to decide whether to mask children.
The showdown over mask mandates in America’s schools has prompted officials in some states to find creative ways to skirt the bans put in place by Republican governors .
Of the 100 largest school districts in the country, all are fully reopening within the next few weeks. Fifty-three percent require students to wear masks, a sharp increase as cases of COVID-19 surge and concerns over the hyper-contagious delta variant grow.
Despite the numbers, there are bans against mask mandates in nearly a half dozen states.
In some, governors have threatened to withhold funding from localities that implement mask mandates.
Arizona’s Gov. Doug Ducey ruffled feathers when he announced that districts with school mask mandates wouldn’t be eligible for a $163 million school grant program. In Florida , which leads the nation in coronavirus hospitalizations, Gov. Ron DeSantis floated a similar move. Texas’s Gov. Greg Abbott , who recently contracted the coronavirus himself, also issued a ban on mask mandates — but late last week, the Texas Education Agency said enforcement of the ban had been dropped.
Citing court challenges, the TEA said further guidance would be issued after the court cases are resolved.
One school district in northeast Texas wasn’t taking any chances and found a creative way to get around Abbott’s directive. The Paris Independent School District decided to require masks as part of its updated dress code.
The Paris ISD board of trustees said in a statement that it believes the “dress code can be used to mitigate communicable health issues” and amended it to protect students and employees as cases of COVID-19 continue to slam the Lone Star state.
“The Texas Governor does not have the authority to usurp the Board of Trustees’ exclusive power and duty to govern and oversee the management of the public schools of the district,” the Paris ISD said. “Nothing in the Governor’s Executive Order 38 states he has suspended Chapter 11 of the Texas Education Code, and therefore the Board has elected to amend its dress code consistent with its statutory authority.”
The board made its decision following an emergency meeting with parents, district employees, and local doctors. The changes to the dress code are not permanent and will be revisited monthly.
News of the amended dress code came as Texas hospitals reported a shortage of ICU beds, and health officials said the state is on track to reach its most dangerous phase yet, the Texas Tribune reported.
“We are entering the worst surge in sheer numbers,” said Dr. Mark Casanova, a member of the Texas Medical Association’s COVID-19 Task Force. “This is the fourth round of what should have been a three-round fight. We do have very sincere concerns that the numbers game is going to overwhelm us.”
(Read more on Oklahoma’s, Arizona’s, and Florida’s struggles at the Washington Examiner)
California is still masking children despite proven physical and psychological danger
The California chapter of the Children’s Health Defense tells us of the harm behind putting masks on children.
California remains one of the only states requiring a school mask mandate despite evidence that the long-term use of facemasks is harmful to children.
Supporters of masks claim they save lives and stop the COVID-19 virus. Yet thousands of scientists, medical professionals, and epidemiologists have been accumulating data that masks can be harmful both short-term and long-term.
Many parents are speaking up and writing letters, claiming that their children are suffering from not being able to breathe freely under face masks, headaches, bad acne, cognitive fog, and depression. California parents who reach a school board member have been told, “My hands are tied. We have to follow the CDPH guidelines.”
Parents in California are becoming aware of the studies proving masks are harmful, and therefore feel the government should not mandate that their children wear them, especially since the risk of children suffering from severe COVID-19 are extremely low. As parents continue to follow the rules and mask their children, many wonder if the masking will ever end. It’s fair to ask if a mask that covers the mouth and nose is free from undesirable side effects in everyday use.
According to dozens of studies, including meta-analyses compiled by Children’s Health Defense, masks do have harmful side effects. Los Angeles based PERK group has compiled a comprehensive page of information on the adverse effects of mask wearing in children. Let’s take a closer look at some of the worst side effects of mask-wearing in children.
Psychological harm
California parents are using the word ‘despair’ when describing the mental state of their children. According to Psychiatrist Dr. Stefani Reinold, on the Highwire with Del Bigtree, parents have been complaining their younger children feel like they are full of germs and everyone else is full of germs. Extended mask wearing has shown detrimental psychological harms tied to lack of facial and emotional signaling according to a 1986 study on face recognition in children. Another report found wearing a mask longer than four hours a day decreases cognitive precision, increases headaches and sweating, and encourages dehydration, increasing bacterial infection risk. The same study noted a loss of sound quality from face-shield use and distorted verbal speech from masks.
Physical Harm
Medical masks raise carbon dioxide levels in the blood. California adults are having trouble working with masks all day, and parents are able to empathize with their children. According to a highly-referenced paper by Dr. Jim Meehan, an ophthalmologist and preventive medicine specialist, the main symptoms of carbon dioxide toxicity include headaches and confusion, sweating, increased heart rate and blood pressure, tremors, shortness of breath, reduced hearing, and dimmed sight. Studies found face masks cause carbon dioxide rebreathing and hypercapnia (excessive carbon dioxide in the bloodstream) trapping CO2 rich respiratory exhalations at the mask-mouth interface, forcing rebreathing of CO2 rich exhalations, and raising CO2 levels. This is most pronounced in young children.
Medical masks lower children’s oxygen levels in the blood. Most parents know oxygen is important for their children’s bodies to function properly. When oxygen enters the body and passes through the lungs to the bloodstream, it helps replace cells that wear out and provides energy for our bodies. Among countless other benefits, it supports our children’s immune systems. California parents are feeding their children good food and trying to keep them active, yet the mask wearing seems counterintuitive, because without enough oxygen, their kids are vulnerable to illness. PERK cited seven studies on masks inhibiting air flow, decreasing arterial oxygen, changing blood flow, increasing hypoxia (oxygen deprivation) risk, and creating microbial challenges.
Lowering arterial oxygen suppresses the immune system. Among key factors weakening the immune system, scientists are finding the lower oxygen saturation and reduction in blood oxygenation as the the largest insult to the immune system. Scientists found the hypoxia increases the level of a compound called ‘hypoxia inducible factor-1,’ which inhibits T-lymphocytes and stimulates a powerful immune inhibitor cell called TREG.
Physical activity makes it worse. In California, parents are learning that coaches and teachers have failed to warn children that they should remove their face mask while participating in sports and P.E. One Oregon high school track runner passed out during an 800-meter race. She was required to wear a mask for this race and had never had any issues during previous, unmasked races. Then are the two cases of masked Chinese boys, aged 15 and 14, who died tragically from cardiac arrest during P.E. class and a running exam. We’ve heard reports of young people whose lungs have collapsed, and other avoidable mishaps. One NIH study called exercise with a facemask, “Handling a devil’s sword,” noting the masks “reduce available oxygen and increase air trapping, preventing substantial carbon dioxide exchange, therefore increasing the acidic environment, cardiac overload, anaerobic metabolism and renal overload.” The study found masking during exercise “can aggravate the underlying pathology of established chronic diseases.”
Chemicals found in face masks are toxic to children. California parents are catching on that most masks and face coverings, including cloth printed with cute kittens or SpongeBob SquarePants, are made with toxic and carcinogenic (cancer-causing) chemicals and harmful microplastics. Studies have found fire retardant, fiberglass, lead, phthalates, polyfluorinated chemicals, and formaldehyde are being inhaled into our children’s lungs. Professor Michael Baungart, director of the Hamburg Environmental Institute warns of the toxins in surgical masks in one paper, but added cloth masks have their own problems, “Textile masks do not begin to pass this most basic hazard test for kids,” he said, “for whom the risks of COVID have been categorically demonstrated to be miniscule.” Meanwhile Health Canada’s risk assessment for masks found evidence of potential long-term lung damage from inhalation of microscopic graphene particles in schools and daycares.
Increased Disease Risk
Masks collect and colonize viruses, bacteria, microbes and mold. We’re not talking about coronavirus, here. We’re talking about all those other germs that would normally be allowed to float away, dry out, and die. One group of Florida parents sent their children’s used masks to a university laboratory to be tested and found the masks had trapped 11 different dangerous pathogens. Shepherd Public School in Michigan closed due to a strep throat outbreak that happened despite COVID masking, noting that “not washing masks enough could be helping to spread the bacteria and that putting masks on different surfaces could spread it, too.” Some scientists are pointing to moisture retention as the culprit, and caution the use of cloth masks due to poor filtration and risk of infection. Scientists have found influenza virus on the outer surface of used medical masks, which can result in self-contamination, and surgical masks have been studied to be a repository of bacterial contamination.
Masks increase viral load and increase severity of disease. California parents see their children’s horrible acne from wearing masks, and they may have a hunch that their children are more vulnerable to viral illness by trapping viral particles that should be removed by the airways, but where’s the proof? Retired neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock said early on in the pandemic that masks cannot prevent illness because they trap exhaled viral particles in the mouth/mask interspace. In other words, when the mask becomes contaminated with viruses, the trapping, re-breathing, and increasing pathogen load delivered to the lungs becomes dangerous. Further, masks increase the incidences of dental cavities, inflamed gums, and bad breath, otherwise known as ‘Mask Mouth.’
(Read on, where the Children’s Health Defense asks central questions)
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Biden shows he does not obey the law by thumbing his nose at the Supreme Court ruling
Biden thumbs his nose at Supreme Court with latest CDC eviction ban
The Daily Caller outlines how Biden’s lawless action on the eviction ban should be interpreted.
In the most recent and clearest sign yet that the Biden administration has not the slightest regard for the Constitution or the Supreme Court of the United States, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued another ban on the ability of landlords to evict renters who fail to meet their rental obligations.
Issued on August 3, the CDC’s latest move to void rental contracts for at least two more months is fraught with constitutional error, but such problems are of little importance to this administration because, in the view of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, it “is the right thing to do.”
“The right thing to do” has become the justification for many modern presidents to sweep aside the foundational constitutional principle that the powers of the federal government are, in the words of Founder James Madison, “few and defined” and do not include mass voidance of lawful private contracts.
The zeal with which Biden is taking advantage of the so-called COVID “emergency” to extend the powers of the federal government into areas in which it has no proper responsibility, puts his predecessors to shame. One of this administration’s favored tools, but certainly not its only one, is to issue orders prohibiting landlords from evicting renters. The argument put forward in support of this dictatorial power is that allowing landlords to enforce rental contracts will dramatically exacerbate the spread of COVID.
The government’s argument that evictions will lead to “new spikes in [COVID] transmission” is premised on the self-proclaimed notion that evicted renters necessarily will move into “congregate settings where COVID-19 spreads.” In the further opinion of the CDC director, such a presumed trend would be “very difficult” if not impossible to reverse, therefore justifying swift action by the CDC.
The CDC’s August 3 order broadly covers renters who earn no more than $99,000 per year ($198,000 for joint tax filers) and who, though using their “best efforts” to meet their contractual rent obligation, have failed to do so. The only real limitation on how many such renters are thus protected is that they must reside in a county with a “substantial” or “high” rate of COVID transmission. This limitation, however, means little in light of the fact that according to the manner by which the CDC measures such transmission rates, nearly 88% of all counties in the United States fall into these two categories.
The administration highlights the increased transmissibility of the recent “delta variant,” but the CDC order conveniently fails to mention that this variation of the initial COVID-19 virus has a substantially lower mortality rate than its predecessors. Also ignored are the facts that COVID vaccines now are universally available, and that current medical knowledge about how to treat infected individuals has made this variant far less lethal than earlier variants.
Facts are of little consequence, however, to an administration eager to show its extreme socialist base that it is fully committed to implementing measures wholly at odds with constraints placed on it by the Constitution. To this president, abrogating the right to enforce lawful contracts between landlords and renters is but a means to an end.
(Read more on the downside of this decision at the Daily Caller)
So they can thumb their noses at our governors and our Supreme Court, but we have to obey their laws and edicts?
This seems to open a free-for-all. If the President can pick and choose, what legal precedent separates him from me as far as being subject to the law?
If the President can nationalize rental property, but not give exemptions for mortgaged property, doesn’t that set up a privileged class without having passed a law? Unless we have suddenly become a dictatorship, shouldn’t action be taken?
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Democrats want to pay for their massive government by killing small business
Biden’s new “death tax” threatens family farms and small businesses
The Washington Times reports on some of the details of the Democrat “death tax.”
President Biden’s proposal for a new death tax to help pay for his $3.5 trillion social welfare expansion is hitting resistance from members of Congress, including a top farm state Democrat who warns that the tax will hurt family farms.
The proposal would change the way capital gains are calculated on inherited assets worth more than $1 million, taking a bigger bite out of inherited stocks, real estate, businesses and farms.
Of all the proposed tax increases to help pay for Mr. Biden’s bigger welfare state, this one would have the greatest impact and rake in an estimated $800 billion in revenue.
Mr. Biden has said he would give breaks to “certain” family-owned businesses, possibly farms, but that hasn’t sold the idea for House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, Georgia Democrat.
“I am very concerned that proposals to pay for these investments could partially come on the backs of our food, fiber and fuel producers,” Mr. Scott wrote to Mr. Biden in June.
On the eve of the House’s first planned vote on the $3.5 trillion budget bill, the lawmaker’s worries had not been allayed, a spokesman said.
Proprietors of small businesses also are worried.
Far-left lawmakers such as Sens. Bernard Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have said a repeal of what is known as step-up basis would finally make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share.
The calculation would apply the capital gains tax to the increased value of an asset during the deceased’s lifetime. Inheritance currently is subject to a capital gains tax on the asset’s value at the time of death, or its step-up basis.
Pat McDowell said the tax would spell the end of the McDowell Ranch, which he owns with his two brothers in central Texas.
The brothers want to pass the ranch to their niece to keep it in the family, as it has been for five generations. If the proposed tax is approved, she would have to sell off part of the ranch just to pay the death tax, he said.
Then there might not be enough ranch left to thrive.
(Read more at the Washington Times)
So, to pay for their big-government/pay-the-politicians plan, Biden wants to rob the mom-and-pop stores and family farms
According to the Small Business Administration, small businesses accounted for 47.3% of the workforce. However, true to government standards, this did not include family-owned farms or ranches.
According to the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, “family farms account for almost 96 percent of the 2,204,792 farms in the United States.”
Biden wants to put this out of business while us city dwellers are not looking. While we are looking at our “extended unemployment benefits,” Biden wants to tax this central part of our infrastructure into oblivion.
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Why Doesn’t Anyone Ask Joe Biden Why He’s Dodging Obamacare Taxes?
In a 30 September 2020 article in The Federalist, Christopher Jacobs points out how Joe Biden was able to avoid paying $13.5 million in Obamacare and Medicare taxes between 2017 and 2019.
Chris Wallace ignored Donald Trump’s answer about paying “millions” in taxes during Tuesday night’s debate, repeatedly demanding that the president answer a question he’d already answered. Meanwhile, the person who really should answer for his tax returns is Joe Biden.
A few hours before the first presidential debate of the 2020 general election campaign, and amid a full-blown media kerfuffle over Trump’s taxes, the Democratic nominee released his 2019 tax returns. The timing of the release seemed far from coincidental: ahead of the debate, so Biden could say he made his returns public, but without giving reporters and moderator Chris Wallace time to absorb the returns prior to the debate. It seems Biden was hoping the details of his returns would become old news immediately after Tuesday evening.
Reporters should dig into Biden’s tax returns, however, in the same way they have shown a seemingly unquenchable curiosity regarding Trump’s, for one reason: Biden claims to support Obamacare — but has consistently avoided paying Obamacare taxes.
You read that right. I noted last year that Biden’s 2017 and 2018 returns showed a tax avoidance strategy that allowed him to circumvent over half a million dollars in Medicare and Obamacare taxes. According to their own returns, Biden and his wife Jill did the same thing in 2019.
The Strategy, Explained
Since the vice president left government service in early 2017, the Bidens funneled their income from book royalties and speaking fees through two corporations: CelticCapri Corporation and Giacoppa Corporation. They paid themselves modest salaries through the corporations, on which they paid full Social Security and Medicare taxes.
The Bidens took most of this book and speech income — over $13.5 million — not as wages, however, but as profits from the two corporations. Taking that income as corporate profits allowed them to avoid payroll taxes on the $13.5 million.
Because Social Security taxes only applied to the first $132,900 of income in 2019, the Bidens didn’t avoid paying the taxes that fund that program. But the 2.9 percent Medicare tax applies to all income, and the 0.9 percent “high-income” tax created in Section 9015 of Obamacare applies to all wage income over $200,000 for an individual or $250,000 for a family.
Taking their income as corporate profits allowed the Bidens to avoid paying this combined 3.8 percent payroll tax on the more than $13.5 million in income they received from 2017 through 2019. This chart lays out the details:
The tax avoidance strategy saved them less in 2019 than in prior years. On the other hand, Biden earned much less last year, likely due to curtailing paid speaking appearances once he began his presidential campaign.
To most ordinary Americans, however, the Bidens still circumvented a staggering amount of taxes: $513,540 in total over the three years. Whereas the Bidens avoided $391,912 in Medicare taxes from 2017 through 2019, the Urban Institute found that a couple with average earnings, retiring this year, would pay a combined $161,000 in Medicare taxes their entire working lives.
(Read how this really should matter to Democrats at The Federalist)
Then again, since RINO’s will not repeal it in Congress, maybe 47.3% of business owners should use jury nullification to eliminate Obamacare
Maybe small business owners should band together to agree to follow Joe Biden’s example. That would likely bankrupt Obamacare.
Likewise, since Biden wants to force the ineffective masks and the 42% effective Pfizer jab (once proclaimed to be 94% effective), maybe large numbers of the unvaccinated (or those who have not received the third jab) should resist.
Then, maybe, we might start on our way to a more representative government.
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