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Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

Yes

22

No

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Yes

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?
9 Comments
Adam Schrader
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Adam Schrader

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210907/masks-limit-covid-spread-study

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Brian Powell
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Brian Powell

Masks limit transmission of Covid. Period.

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Adam Schrader
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Adam Schrader

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-mask/art-20485449

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Jack L
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Jack L

According to the MO Health Department study done recently, masks significantly reduce the spread of COVID https://www.kansascity.com/news/coronavirus/article256266117.html Look at the science, not the politics

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Adam Schrader
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Adam Schrader

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

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Donna Welborn-Dicus
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Donna Welborn-Dicus

How effective was quarantining students, teachers & others in their homes? If you refuse to get the vaccine, a mask should be your only choice. Anything else is irresponsible for those who would, without a thought for anyone else, pass it on to someone with a medical condition, or the elderly.

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Wendi Newman
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Wendi Newman

Masking works when done correctly. Our children deserve a safe learning environment.

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Jack L
Jack L

Correct Wendi. Masks stop a lot of the COVID spread. Nothing stops 100% of the spread, but few things in life are 100%. Football helmets don`t stop 100% of players head injuries, but no player in his right mind would take the field without one.

Sue Evans
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Sue Evans

Yes data shows masking works. If the AG could stop looking at everything through the lens of politics, he might also see it.

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Jack L
Jack L

Correct Sue. Politics has ended the lives of many misguided people unfortunately. These days science often takes a back seat to political opportunists.

Nancy J Bayer- Brink
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Nancy J Bayer- Brink

Data shows it helps to reduce infections along with reducing the flu. This is a public health crisis! Unless our elected officials have a medical degree, they need to sit down. Let the trained professionals lead us out of this nightmare.

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Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

https://www.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/news/your-mask-cuts-own-risk-65-percent I guess these are all fake too...

Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-about-masks-heres-science-behind-how-face-masks-prevent

Jack L
Jack L

You are also 100% right Adam

Jack L
Jack L

You are 100% right Nancy!

Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

Look at the cdc. Oh wait, that's fake too

Max
Max

Who has this fake data? The Fake Dr. Fauci, Puppy Torturer Supreme?

Will Mason
Will Mason

What data? Please show it.

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Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?
9 Comments
Max
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Max

If your mask fogs your glasses, or if your mask still allows you to smell odors, and you still feel it is protecting you from Covid. Then it is not the mask, that is failing. It is your brain, that is failing. Meaning you need two masks and masking tape on top of them.

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Kent Airy
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Kent Airy

The mask is not saving anyone from anything, I ocassionally wear a N95 for work related dust issues, the dust is obviously thicker than a invisible pathogen but gets by anyway to some extent and you can see the dirt spots where it comes through. The mask is a worthless control tactic.

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Max
Max

I sometimes wear a mask when doing woodworking projects. 72 years old and have never caught Covid. Have worked with, mainly Oak and Hickory, but many other types of wood as well. The masks catch large particles like wood dust. But they are mainly for fear tactics from liberals.

Max
Max

But the Question of the Day, is always more fun than any comedy show.

Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

Then please don't wear it. Please get covid. Please be admitted to a hospital. Please be on a ventilator. Please put your love ones through this. And after they watch you die, at least the herd is thinned out a bit more for the smarter, healthier people.

Will Mason
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Will Mason

They obviously do nothing. Why keep doing what has not worked so far?

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Max
Max

I hope they continue with the mask mandate. Then the fines the schools will have pay, can be given to underpaid state employees.

Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

Masks and vaccines DO work. Neither is a guarantee you won't get covid or flu etc.. they greatly reduce the chances of getting it or greatly reduce your symptoms. I'm living proof. I'd be dead had it not been for vaccinations

John Wilson
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John Wilson

mask effectiveness in the school setting has not been shown and there are negative physical and mental effects of masks

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Lisa Gore
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Lisa Gore

It is unconstitutional to allow non legislative CPS elected officials to make decisions for parents. The legislative branch of our government decides these rules not these officials who make up rules. Boone county doesn’t even have a mask order. Over reach has to be checked.

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Debbie Riffle
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Debbie Riffle

Paper and cloth masks are not effective. Is the school system able and willing to supply a fresh N95 mask to students and staff daily? If not, then, they need to let it go.

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Keith Herdzina
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Keith Herdzina

Because being 18 or over living in Boone Co gives you zero public health education/credentials to make health policies. We have real experts in that field, elected, that should be making these decisions. Let's have qualified, accountable, officials making these policies.

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Max
Max

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has made the decision. Any and all mask demands are now illegal, null, and void. It is no longer defensible. Discussion is closed. It is over. There will be no masks required. You may wear one if you want. But you can't make anyone else wear one. ROTFLOL

Max
Max

Yes Harry, science fiction! LOL But you already knew that.

Max
Max

The Science is in, and Fauci is out. He has forfeited his credibility, and so has the CDC. They flip flop daily, and change their fake data, more often than they change their underwear.

Adam Schrader
Adam Schrader

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/09/us/hospital-covid-19-deaths-michigan/index.html

Do you think Gov. Mike Kehoe is leading Missouri in the right direction?

Do you think Gov. Mike Kehoe is leading Missouri in the right direction?

Yes

3

No

11

Yes

3 Comments
Will Mason
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Will Mason

Your question is way too generic. To a degree that that renders it pointless.

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Eric Smith
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Eric Smith

Kehoe is ok, and I mean just ok. Unfortunately, Missouri has now had two weak governors back-to-back.

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Toasty
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Toasty

Is he Tim Waltz level incompetence? No, but with a republican majority, he could do better. Listen to The Eagle every morning and Randy will give you all the details.

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No

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Steve Sargent
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Steve Sargent

He rammed through legislation reversing laws enacted via the ballot box. This LBJ wannabe needs impeached or voted out into obscurity

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Lisa Harter Kerns
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Lisa Harter Kerns

Public schools need funded

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Ed Smith
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Ed Smith

Allowing gambling on sports, while ACL, relocation and retirement occur in that same instance sounds premeditated. Reversing voter decisions is communist! And, have car dealers started getting their commission on the property tax collections, yet?

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Danny Bowling
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Danny Bowling

No income tax doesnt work check all the states that tried it. RESCT THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!

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John Scherer
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John Scherer

Killing the rural public schools. Promoting the St. Louis County private school agenda. Where is the accountability for private schools supported with public money?

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Vancie Brown
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Vancie Brown

Nothing is getting done

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Bruce Russell
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Bruce Russell

Governors tax policies are misguided. Capital Gains and income tax elimination will shift the tax burden to lower and middle income folks. Saying this is to attract new business is a weak argument.

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Tom Maxwell
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Tom Maxwell

He is screwing over the average Missourian to give himself and other rich people a tax break.

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Robert Rasmussen
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Robert Rasmussen

He's continued Missouri's race to the bottom with Texas and Florida when it comes to this culture war bull, his proposition to eliminate income tax is fake populist pandering, in reality it's a rug pull on the poor and a handout for the rich.

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John Shadwick
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John Shadwick

His tax plan is a blatant wealth transfer. A sales tax increase disproportionally harms lower income individuals.

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Madison Haleigh
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Madison Haleigh

Because he hasn't done anything to help people get affordable housing or access to healthcare. He takes money from big companies to build data centers.

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Do you expect violence involving federal agents to continue?

Do you expect violence involving federal agents to continue?

Yes

18

No

0

Yes

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Brenda Freeman
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Brenda Freeman

It is what trump wants

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Max
Max

The violence is from the Left. Trump, and Americans want Law and Order.

Jane Porter
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Jane Porter

Yes it is inevitable, it will continue until ICE is stopped. Honestly I thought would happen sooner.

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Max
Max

Ice will not be stopped, they will just get better tools, and use them sooner.

Jeremy Salas
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Jeremy Salas

Its a bunch of Lil weiner having, trigger happy racists joining ice that couldn't make it in real law enforcement or military.

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Max
Max

That protect you and your children.

Fred
Fred

I am sure many are white supremacists and neo-nazis.

Will Mason
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Will Mason

Unless the" protestors" (In reality they are insurectionists) stop being violent, the violence will continue. .

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Max
Max

600 of those protesters were Pelosi plants.

Fred
Fred

January 6, 2021 was insurrection ... citizens protesting government overreach and invasion of their neighborhoods by unknown masked men in battle fatigues & assault weapons is NOT!

Ruthann Black
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Ruthann Black

As long as violent protesters are blocking federal agents from doing their jobs , it will continue.

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Fred
Fred

It will continue as long as ICE and DHS continue to use excessive force!

Steve Baumann
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Steve Baumann

There is an anti-American movement that's gained momentum over the past few years. And with the discovery of mass corruption, such as in Minneapolis, those profiting from those activities are going to fight back, hard.

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Max
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Max

Terrorists are ramming ICE vehicles, as we speak.

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Nicole McGregor
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Nicole McGregor

The new agents aren't properly trained and they have zero accountability!

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Toasty
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Toasty

While the liberals/socialists/communists/democrats continue the narrative of victimization, they will find useful idiots to carry out their agenda. This poor woman believed the lies and lost her life.

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Fred
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Fred

Masked secret police roaming the streets with no accountability would have never been accepted in America in the past. If they themselves weren't ashamed of there actions, they wouldn't be wearing masks. Our democracy is spiraling the drain!

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James Sowash
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James Sowash

Until politicians in both parties quit making inflammatory statements, it will continue.

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No

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