always going to try to advocate what s best for children. reporter: the mask wore update in texas, a couple with an immunocompromised kid at home went out for dinner, and she came up and basically said, you are going to need to pull your mask down, take it off, because this is a political situation. but the owner here doesn t believe in masks and, you know, there is a strict no-mask policy here. reporter: so they had to leave. i spent my money on this business. i put my blood, sweat and tears in this business. i don t want any masks in here. reporter: in florida the no mask wearing surgeon jen was the man for the job. he wrote that mask wearing has had at best a moderate affect on transmission. not true. studies show the effect is significant. meantime, the nation s average daily death toll just topped
strict no-mask policy here. so they had to leave. i spent my money on this business. i ve put my blood, sweat, and tears in this business. and i don t want any masks in here. in florida, the mask wearing governor just announced his new surgeon general. we feel joe is just the right guy for the job. last week, he wrote that public mask wearing has had, at best, a modest effect on viral transmission. not true. studies show the effect is significant. meantime, the nation s average daily death toll just topped 2,000 lives lost a day, hasn t been that high in more than six months. we are going to be living because of some people s hesitancy to take vaccine, at a plateau. hundreds of people, maybe 1,000, dying on a daily basis for the foreseeable future. new case counts are falling. averaging around 135,000 a day.
natalie, tell me what she said. yeah. so our waitress came up and she basically said you are going to need to pull your mask down, take it off because this is a political situation but the owner here doesn t believe in masks. and, you know, there is a strict no-mask policy here. so then what happened, jose? . well, then we were asked to, you know, either remove our mask or leave. and then we explained the reason we were wearing our mask was for our son who has cystic fibrosis. even after we explained what that was to him and why we were wearing the mask, he didn t seem to care. his political views were more important than a child s health. they told us if we didn t take off our masks, we would
for masks in schools. she s a pediatrician. masks are one way of a layered approach to help us keep kids in school and even if it s unpopular, i m always going to try to advocate what s best for children. reporter: a mask war update from down in texas. a couple with an immuno compromised kid at home went out for dinner and just came up and basically said you are going to need your to pull your mask down because this is a political situation but the owner here doesn t believe in masks, and, you know, there s a strict no-mask policy here. reporter: so they had to leave. i spent my money on this business. i ve put my blood, sweat and tears in this business. and i don t want any masks in here. reporter: in florida, the mask-wearing governor just announced his new surgeon general. we feel that joe is just the right guy for the job. reporter: last week he wrote that public mask wearing has had, at best, a modest effect on
and we will not comply with these mask mandates. what s happening here is the fact that the government is actually asking us to abuse our children, right? the department of social services went to a home in the summer and they saw a child or a teenager with their nose and mouth covered all day long in the heat and then put them in a vehicle, school bus, right, having to ride with their noses and mouths covered. that would be child abuse and they would be removed. well, in effect this is what the government is actually asking parents to do. we will not comply. we will not do it. our children belong to us. not the government. and i encourage every single parent out there to go to the board of education, demand an emergency meeting, demand that a no mask policy be immediately implemented. if enough parents stand up, which i believe they re, we will win this battle. we are not going to comply. it s really that simple. ainsley: dr. siegel, cuomo says the cdc is not going to update its mask