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Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

Yes

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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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Jack L
Jack L

You are also 100% right Adam

Jack L
Jack L

You are 100% right Nancy!

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

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

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

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.

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

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

Should Columbia city leaders consider tax increases to address projected budget deficits?

Yes

5

No

5

Yes

2 Comments
Zaos Gonzolez
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Zaos Gonzolez

I believe with all my heart that Columbia residents should donate their entire paychecks to the City. If the City had ALL of the money, it would solve ALL of the problems.

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Max DeYoung
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Max DeYoung

That's how blue cities work, tax, tax, tax, and tax some more.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

Tax to the MAX. Tax till you drop, and it still don't stop!

No

5 Comments
Debbie Neate
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Debbie Neate

They want to raise taxes because the “sales taxes are less than expected”. Could this be due to Columbia’s citizens not shopping downtown, etc. as they do not. Want to deal with addicts, vagrants and panhandlers. Lower revenues are due to administrators poor policies and other choices ie..plan fine

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Susanna Johnson Kettlewell
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Susanna Johnson Kettlewell

Get rid of the unnecessary positions created the past 3 years! The answer is to reduce the size of government, NOT raise taxes! Columbia's sales tax rate is already too high. Continue letting crime and homelessness flourish, raise taxes, and people will leave the city,

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Allan German
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Allan German

Why not cut the city official salaries by a few thousand dollars each to help make up some of the money that the city is looking for? But I doubt a single city official would be willing to do that even though most of them live better than the rest of the city.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

The recorder of deeds salary alone is over $96,000!!!!!!!!!!!! TRULY INSANE. Most of us can never even imagine that amount of money.

Will Mason
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Will Mason

Not until after ALL avenues for budget cuts have been explored Taxes are too high already.

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Zaos Gonzolez
Zaos Gonzolez

If you are alive, there is no such thing as too many taxes. EVEN when you are unalive, you are taxed.

Fat Guy Outdoors
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Fat Guy Outdoors

This is what Columbia just voted in. Great job!!!!

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Did you see damage in your area from the Easter Sunday storms?

Did you see damage in your area from the Easter Sunday storms?

Yes

2

No

1

Yes

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Lynda Shaw
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Lynda Shaw

We have major flooding from Black River in Lesterville; Reynolds County, Missouri. We have major damage from the November 2024 flood..,then major wildfires in May 2025, 1 week later we went through another major flood, May 2025, last night (4/20/25) Easter Sunday winds 68-70mph. Photos attached

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Dee Dee Smith
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Dee Dee Smith

Lost two of three vehicles from huge tree falling on them

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No

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Zaos Gonzolez
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Zaos Gonzolez

BLUFFaloe being elected is more damage than any tornado can produce.

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