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Why risk children's health or even death? If parents didn't want their children to wear a mask to protect others, they could have kept them home. Crazy.
Because, a dangerous number of folks with a proclivity for believing disinformation/misinformation and/or with (in my opinion) Oppositional Defiant Disorder didn't believe COVID 19 was all that serious and/or refused to be "told what to do". They put our children in danger because they know better than the experts, or because "YOU'Re NOt The BOsS OF mE NOw!", or some combination of both.
True. I wouldn't know if I could live with myself if an unmasked kid got sick and died IF I had went against the medical professionals mandatory mask rule. Wouldn't you always think that you are the reason that child is dead? Who would want that on their conscience.
There are some who would might find they have the ability to self reflect on their poor choices regarding COVID - albeit quite belatedly - as I've seen articles documenting such in my local paper. Overall, I'm afraid the notion that these denier types have a healthy conscience is not a safe bet.
Willing to kill your kids to own the libs.
These fucks love to act like they are "true patriots" and that supposedly family comes first and all the other feel-good imagery that conservatives love to project. Except that their actions, as always, show their true colors.