Displays of power, a hierarchy of who is in charge and who is not. sandra: and showing your smile, we see her smiling. it s lovely to see smiles. those kids cannot see each other smiling and you go back to the statement that she put out about this, pushing back on the claims of hypocrisy that she took off the mask so the students learning remotely could hear her better. classrooms all over the country following mask mandates for the teacher, has to wear the mask in the classroom. therefore, she s making the point for everyone that those kids at home learning remotely can t understand that teacher. it gets you fired up. mollie, it stood out to me when you retweeted a picture of stacey abrams sitting with the school children not masked and they all are, why are democratics still making the forced masking of children one of their signature issues. very simple question.
Making. a couple things. we reported u.s. officials are losing patience with the chinese in negotiations john: questions about masking, obviously, as more states and european countries reduce or remove covid restrictions all together. could we bring back call for number five, bill marr said so well. listen here. apparently it s time to do what a growing list of countries have done and announced we are going back to something more like normal. beginning with recognizing that what we are doing to kids is unnecessary and horrible and i don t even like kids. [applause] john: when you look at the map of all the european nations that have withdrawn covid restrictions and back to life as normal and we are arguing about it.
Coming up, we ll see. tons of studies looking at the effectiveness of forced mask and none show a strong reason to do it, and children thank god at low risk of death or severe injury from getting covid, unlike people who are older or have co-morbidity, that s why a lot of countries never forced masking of children. understanding some people might choose to do it with their parents that might be something you choose to do. but the science really is not there despite what stacey abrams was taking, a clear-cut scientific issue, particularly when you are outside of operation theater in a hospital with very good n59 masking, even the c.d.c. has admitted that cloth masks are not particularly effective at combatting this. and more than anything, we are two years into, so much more we know now and so many down sides to this forced masking of children, particularly when it comes to what they can learn,
But this issue people say that she s a hypocrite for this, because she does support the forced masking of children while she was not wearing a mask, but its something we have seen so much over the last couple of years where people in powerful positions have one set of rules for themselves, and entirely another set of rules for other people. you might remember two years ago, or even close to two years ago, bans on funerals for normal people, but if you were a politically powerful person you could have a massive funeral, or a series of funerals. protests were strictly banned if you were protesting lockdowns, forced masking or other issues, but the right political views welcome and encouraged to engage in protests, even if they were violent or turned into riots, and we have seen so many pictures like this one of stacey abrams, celebrities or other powerful people, politicians. they are not masked but the lower class people around them are masked and i don t think it s so much hypocrisy, b