This week saw even some “conservative [Florida] counties that backed … Trump … defying DeSantis and instituting their own [school mask] mandates.” 1/ #FlaPol #DeathSantis @RonDeSantisFL 1/ wionews.com/world/more-flo…
2/ “Earlier this week, populous Brevard County along Florida’s east coast, which went for Trump over President Joe Biden by more than 16 percentage points in November, narrowly voted to approve a 30-day school mask mandate.”
3/ “At the Brevard County meeting on Monday, Misty Belford, the chair of the school board who a month earlier had opposed a mask mandate, switched her vote and gave proponents a 3-2 majority.”
Belford changed her mind … after watching the district’s caseload spike…
Belford changed her mind … after watching the district’s caseload spike…
4/ … including a 49% increase in student cases from one week to the next. One school was closed for two days after most of its students were quarantined.
‘We are at an absolute crisis point,’ Belford said.”
‘We are at an absolute crisis point,’ Belford said.”
5/ “Hernando County, which supported Trump over Biden by almost 30 points, also passed a [school mask] mandate, but one that allows parents to opt out.”
6/ In Lake County, Florida, which “strongly backed Trump, … [t]he board listened to more than 3 hours of public comment on the mask [mandate] proposal then postponed a decision. Some 280 people spoke or sent emails on the issue, & 2/3 of them supported the [mask mandate] idea…”
7/ “A 30-day mask mandate is the minimum that we can do. ... Please protect our [Lake County] students and our teachers who are too scared to speak out because of the ramifications of their opinions…” #FlaPol #DeathSantis orlandosentinel.com/news/lake/os-l…
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