When your name is *on* a white paper that advises against masks and social distancing in a full reopening of schools you can’t really distance yourself from the recommendations - but @DonWagnerCA did try today. #OrangeCounty 
The Orange County Board of Education adopted K-12 recommendations against reducing class size, socially distancing and wearing masks.
The recs say social distancing and mask wearing harms children and call arguments that teachers and administrators can catch coronavirus from an asymptomatic child “fallacious,” (even though the WHO and the WH task force say data on transmission by kids is lacking.)
It also erroneously cites an NPR story, touting successes by child care centers operated by YMCA and the NYC Department of Education during NYC’s covid surge, failing to mention the former practiced social distancing and the latter both social distancing and masks.
Here are key passages from the NPR story that these recs omit, completely misrepresenting the practices the day cares used to justify recommendations that all OC kids go back to school without social distancing, masks or reduced class size. npr.org/2020/06/24/882…
