for hours to be heard, blasted the school board for defying florida s republican governor with a no-opt-out mask mandate and instituting scientifically proven covid mitigation protocols. no one spoke in favor of masking. and some who did speak couldn t contain their anger. you need to step up and [ bleep ]. this is ridiculous. turn off the microphone. watch the language, ma am. reporter: desantis issued an executive order earlier this year blocking mask mandates in schools. that order was upheld in a federal court earlier this month. at least two people were escorted out for disrupting the meeting, including this woman who says the decision of masking students should be left up to parents. do you worry at all that your children might get the virus, not wearing a mask might spread the virus? i feel that from what i can
for hours to be heard, blasted the school board for defying florida s republican governor with a no op tr-out mask mandate and instituting scientifically proven covid mitigation protocols. no one spoke in favor of masking and some who did speak couldn t contain their anger. you need to step up and shine your own [ bleep ] light. this is ridiculous! turn off the microphone. watch the language, ma am. desantis issued an executive order blocking mask mandates in school. that order was upheld in a federal court earlier this month. sir. at least two people were escorted out for disrupting the meeting including this woman who says the decision of masking students should be left up to parents. do you worry at all that your child might get the virus not wearing a mask might spread the virus. i feel that from what i can gather that if they did
thought he might, 2021 was about lockdowns, school not being opened. that was covid but it was not necessarily advantage democrats. 2021 right now is masks and vaccinations. are you for masks? right. that s a clear issue where not only in california, florida, texas, a lot of other states democratic pro mask, pro vaccine position is popular. if you can run against trumpism particularly if it s antimask, antivaccines, it s unlikely to be 2022 exactly on the terrain. running on antitrumpism is a good approach and if republicans are still opposed to basic covid mitigation protocols, that will be helpful to democrats. that s a really great point and something we tried to say before. a year ago you did have these brutal tradeoffs particularly with kids and schooling where, you know, you re telling businesses to shutter down and
is a good approach. and that republicans are still opposed to basic covid mitigation protocols, that will be helpful for democrats. that is a really great, point and something we tried to see before, is that a year ago you really did have these brutal trade-offs. and particularly with kids in schooling, where you re telling businesses to shutter known. and you re telling kids to be on some school. now the trade-offs are, wearing a mask, and getting vaccinated. and the politics of that flipped. and i thought this polling was interesting. this is the recall exit poll from nbc. it says, asking people if the covid-19 policies, are too strict. that s 30%. not strict enough is 18%. and about right is about 47%. so you got about 65, to 30, if you add up not strict enough, and about right. that is a pretty big margin, and it s about the margin of victory in the race. you know, biden is leaning on the idea, that the schools