there, we re going to see splurges of cases, little outbreaks as a consequence of this labor day weekend. it may be more than that. this delta variant is contagious and of course, the lesson is for our friends, here we are. we have people eager to get a third dose. you have all the friends and neighbors that haven t received the first. come on in. get that first dose. that s the way to start controlling this virus. including kids, by the way, who are under 12. they still can t get the vaccine and even more students will be heading back to school after next week. what will happen in places without the mask mandates and on schools and campuses? well, first of all, we need to get all the adults associated with the school vaccinated and all those children older than 12 and then as the academy of pediatrics says, let s all wear masks in schools. that s sensible and effective.
know that the ban on mask mandates in the governor s executive order not being enforced now, right? so, while it s not going to be enforced while it s tied nupt courts. and once it s resolved they re going to provide further guidance. so, for now it seems like schools can students can wear masks or they can do mask mandates if they will unless there is a further development if they want to, i should say. right. well, that s what the order says, that they will not enforce the governor s ban on local school districts machndates mas. but there was never any public interest any court would hold for upholding the governor s ban. i m just cynical enough to think that the governor himself has told the education agency not to uphold his own order because pediatric hospitals in texas are
so, here s the breaking news we reported a bit at the top of the show and we want to update it. we needed to get clarification before the full report on it. here it is. the supreme court of texas refusing governor greg abbott s request to intervene in the case of mask mandates by several jurisdictions. the lower court ruling allowing school districts to require masks in their schools. that will still stand. i want to bring in medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner to help us out on this. doctor, thank you very much. talk to me about the breaking news about the supreme court refusing to sfintervene by the mask mandates. tonight the texas education agency put out public health guidance to schools letting them
filled with kids. and i think, you know, like the governor of florida, the governor of texas has painted himself into a corner. you know, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, and banning masks has really tied his hands. so, again, it s not impossible that this actually fulfills what the governor needs, which is to protect the kids, help put down the pandemic but save a little bit of face. and if that s the case, i m fine with that. yeah, i think we re being overly complicated. basically what the reporting says is at this point, texas schools can require students to wear masks or mandate masks if they want to, unless there s a further change when this works its way through the courts. president biden has asked governors to get out of the way if they aren t going to help in the fight against covid. do the ban against mask mandates need to end? they never should have started. and again, governors only have a
that s what i m here for. there are i think that biden was right to point out that you do have a government overlord move here because these principles in these local school boards, people are being elected to those and they are making those decisions. i was listening to the dallas school administrator dallas and austin are the schools keeping the mask mandates. she was saying this is what we have decided as best to keep our children safe and to keep our teachers safe. i wanted to bring up because everybody loves hypocrisy so much. governor abbott at the same time he s banning the mask mandates is now clean for out-of-state assistance, they need more staff to get to the hospitals in texas because of the surge in covid cases. but dumping covid positive illegals into texas and then blaming governor abbott. you can get this is not a national problem because of who is streaming across the border,