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Do you like the new Columbia Public Schools coronavirus quarantine rules?

Asked by ABC 17 News

669 Votes

Do you like the new Columbia Public Schools coronavirus quarantine rules?

48%

Yes Yes

52%

No No

48%

Yes

The Columbia Board of Education voted Monday to change quarantine rules. Students who are exposed to coronavirus no longer have to quarantine -- only those who test positive or ... Show More

The Columbia Board of Education voted Monday to change quarantine rules. Students who are exposed to coronavirus no longer have to quarantine -- only those who test positive or have symptoms. Show Less

5 Comments

Lisa Howard Glass

My son has already had Covid...and had NO symptoms at all. We, his parents, have also already had Covid. I think we're subjecting kids to psychological abuse that's going to live with them forever if we keep this fear porn up. And we have the abusive media to thank for that.

Larry Sabulsky

The kids need to be in school. The government has hurt the kids enough.

Will Mason

The current policy makes no sense. Any change has to be an improvement.

Courtney Lucas

My son has been sick nonstop with bacterial infections being caused by that mask according to his 3 drs. Now we can get him healthy and heal his immune system.

Max

I hope your son gets better. My doctor did not recommend the booster for me. The children do not deserve the abuse, that the masks provide.

Lisa Gore

Freedom...and common sense.

52%

No

Some worry that students who have coronavirus but don't have symptoms could spread the virus at school.

Some worry that students who have coronavirus but don't have symptoms could spread the virus at school. Show Less

4 Comments

Jane Halbert

I feel it is making it dangerous for all concerned. There will be little protection against COVID-19.

Charles Schoene

The Board simply caved in to an authoritarian Attorney General running for Senate on a pure Trumpian philosophy. Eric Schmitt's baseless "order" just made it more comfortable for the Board to throw in the towel. It puts the students and teachers at great risk.

Adam Schrader

So much for better safe than sorry

Sue Evans

Asymptomatic will continue to spread covid

Adam Schrader

Amen Sue.

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

Asked by ABC 17 News

1,325 Votes

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

50%

Yes Yes

50%

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50%

Yes

Columbia Public Schools has kept its mask mandate in place for students and staff for the entire school year with school board approval, despite objections from some parents.

Columbia Public Schools has kept its mask mandate in place for students and staff for the entire school year with school board approval, despite objections from some parents. Show Less

9 Comments

Adam Schrader

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

Brian Powell

Masks limit transmission of Covid. Period.

Adam Schrader

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

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

Adam Schrader

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

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.

Wendi Newman

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

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

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

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

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.

Adam Schrader

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

Adam Schrader

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

Jack L

You are also 100% right Adam

Jack L

You are 100% right Nancy!

Adam Schrader

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

Max

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

Will Mason

What data? Please show it.

50%

No

Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued the district and now claims it is violating a court order by requiring masks. He says his office has started an investigation.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued the district and now claims it is violating a court order by requiring masks. He says his office has started an investigation. Show Less

9 Comments

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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Do you support the UM System suspending its coronavirus vaccine mandate?

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529 Votes

Do you support the UM System suspending its coronavirus vaccine mandate?

62%

Yes Yes

38%

No No

62%

Yes

The University of Missouri System said Tuesday it is suspending its coronavirus mandate for employees after a federal judge put a Biden administration requirement for federal co... Show More

The University of Missouri System said Tuesday it is suspending its coronavirus mandate for employees after a federal judge put a Biden administration requirement for federal contractors on hold. Show Less

3 Comments

Lisa Gore

What is sad is people like Lois who think that if I brush my teeth it protects her teeth. Nope. Your vaccine should help you, these are being shown to have more side effects than others, are under EUA, and against Nuremberg code and our Constitution Federal and Missouri.

Max

Liberals believe what suits themselves, regardless of science or facts. If they repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true, in their little world.

Lisa White

Because we have rights as citizens. Our health should be our decision, not Joe Biden.

lois tyler

To be vaccinated protects others not just yourself

38%

No

Many employees support such a vaccine mandate. The Faculty Council approved a resolution urging such a mandate at the Columbia campus.

Many employees support such a vaccine mandate. The Faculty Council approved a resolution urging such a mandate at the Columbia campus. Show Less

7 Comments

Max

Not one single death has been recorded from Omicron, yet it will give everyone who gets it antibodies. Omicron is the beginning of the end, to the Covid-19 Pandemic, and the end to the communist fear Agenda.

lois tyler

Everyone needs to be vaccinated so we can control the spread and the mutation of this virus. Why is it that we willingly are vaccinated for the flu,measles,mumps, ect. but resist a free life saving vaccine? Think of the money and lives saved if we can control the outbreak of more mutations

Niki Goldenstein

It should not be mandated, it should be a choice. We need more information on the vaccine.

Carolyn Youngberg

They have a responsibility to their students, faculty, administrators and university workers to keep them safe. Bowing to political pressure does nothing for the safety and health of these people.

Jack L

I guess students don`t need to be protected from COVID. .... OH WAIT!.....a high percentage of people who are contracting the latest strain of the virus are young people

Max

This is Big Pharma's Current Cash Cow. Protection against Omicron coronavirus variant improves with three vaccine doses, Pfizer says. Pfizer says, Buy my Snake Oil and you will live forever. ROTFLOL

Lisha Lammers

Mask mandates work!

Max

No they don't. Florida has the lowest infection rate in the Nation, and they have used less masking and all other precautions, than all other states.

Adam Schrader

Let's make it even more unsafe to be in Columbia. Good idea.....sigh

Covid-19 SquareOffs

Do you like the new Columbia Public Schools coronavirus quarantine rules?

48% Yes Yes

52% No No

48% Yes

52% No

Should Columbia Public Schools keep requiring masks?

50% Yes Yes

50% No No

50% Yes

50% No

Do you support the UM System suspending its coronavirus vaccine mandate?

62% Yes Yes

38% No No

62% Yes

38% No

About Covid-19

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