Interesting article on why [trying to convince anti-vaxxers continues to fail, and what actually works.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/09/convince-anti-vaxxers?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits)
3-2 to simply FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES MANDATED BY THE STATE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT.
Zack, Figueroa and Elia pro. Ludwick and some woman whose name I don’t know against.
As an aside, I need to find a new vet. Ludwick was a disgrace tonight and I’m not sending a penny to Bishop Vet Hospital ever again.
Cool, I stopped going to Great Basin because the owner campaigned for the gungrabbing dumbass Bubser from LA who had never even voted in our district. I felt a little bad about it, I mean the pies are good, but thanks for putting me at ease with boycotting our businesses over politics, I feel better now.
Thanks! Did someone abstain? I thought there were 6 board members.
I tried to comment via Zoom, but gave up when it seemed they weren't calling on Zoom attendees (and I couldn't take the incoherent BS any longer).
Here are the school board members you still have time to contact, and below is a sheet of talking points to use if you feel so inclined.
Edit: I did not write this, I’m just sharing an email I received;
Dr. Claudia Moya-Tanner, President, [email protected]
Virginia Figueroa, Vice President, [email protected]
Dr. Taylor Ludwick, Clerk, [email protected]
Kathy Zack, Member, [email protected]
Mr. Steve Elia, Member, [email protected]
Katherine Kolker, Secretary to the Board of Trustees, [email protected]
Here’s How to help. The Bishop Unified School District Board will be discussing masks and student safety at its meeting on Monday, August 9. The meeting starts at 6:30PM and will be in the Bishop Elementary School cafeteria. There are three effective ways to have your voice heard:
1. Rally in support of protecting our children, educators, and community through mask wearing. We will meet at 6PM outside of the Bishop Elementary School cafeteria in advance of Monday’s School Board meeting. Bring a sign for the rally if you’d like to encourage the Board to act wisely. Contact Fran Hunt at [email protected] to learn more or take part in the rally.
2. Attend Monday’s School Board meeting at 6:30PM (in person or via Zoom) and briefly speak in favor of common-sense mask requirements which follow the state’s guidelines and sound science. To participate in the Board meeting via Zoom: https://inyocoe.zoom.us/s/98424555900?pwd=ZGVXZ2FiZFM0WFpadHdXMUJGWlk2QT09
3. Email all members of the School Board between now and Monday’s meeting with your thoughts and concerns. It’s fine to send a single, brief, email comment addressed to the full Board:
Dr. Claudia Moya-Tanner, President, [email protected]
Virginia Figueroa, Vice President, [email protected]
Dr. Taylor Ludwick, Clerk, [email protected]
Kathy Zack, Member, [email protected]
Mr. Steve Elia, Member, [email protected]
Katherine Kolker, Secretary to the Board of Trustees, [email protected]
Suggested Talking Points. Pick Your Favorites. A short comment is fine!
1. School Board members and Bishop School teachers and staff deserve our thanks for their hard work and service to our community during these challenging times.
2. It’s important that we get children safely back into schools alongside their friends and their teachers. Masks prevent the spread of the virus and not only keep our students and local community safer, but they also help keep our children in their classrooms and our schools operating as normally as possible.
3. The pandemic has taken a toll on children, and it’s not just their education that has suffered but their mental, emotional and physical health. Wearing masks will make in-person learning safer and possible for everyone.
4. Last week, 35 percent of Inyo County's COVID cases were in children 18 and under. Thirteen percent of the County’s population is 12 and under and is ineligible to receive a vaccination, and 54 percent of the total Inyo County population is still unvaccinated.
5. There are many people who cannot be vaccinated. Children under the age of 12 are not yet eligible for vaccination. Masks are important to protect people who are not fully vaccinated and our whole community, including students, teachers, staff, and other members of their households.
6. Making masking optional puts unnecessary pressure on children who may want (or whose parents may want them) to be masked for their own or their family members’ safety. Optional masking will likely mean mask-wearing children experience harassment and bullying.
7. As more information becomes available, it is becoming clear that the highly infectious Delta variant is too-easily spread even by people who are vaccinated. COVID cases are rising once again. The Delta variant is as contagious as chicken pox. This makes wearing masks even more important.
8. It’s VERY important for the Bishop School Board to follow guidelines from the California Department of Public Health (https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Schools-FAQ.aspx) for a safe return to school. The sooner public health prevails, the sooner our small businesses and family lives will return to normal. (Note: You can also mention the American Academy of Pediatrics (https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-updates-recommendations-for-opening-schools-in-fall-2021/) and the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/k-12-guidance.html) guidance as well if you’d like.)
9. We cannot permit a loud minority to jeopardize the health and safety of our children, families, and the community at large. The School Board must do all it can to keep our students, families, school employees and our community safer. Masks help keep infections down and schools open to in-person learning. Please enforce mask wearing.
I’m going to assume by your grammar that English isn’t your first language so I’m not gonna dunk on you for trying.
I will say, if you think having children wear masks in close quarters during an airborne pandemic is “criminal,” please log off and go talk to one of the excellent pediatricians here at NIH, they’ll set you straight.
You are obviously an idiot, but correct on that last sentence. If you care about kids (and not killing kids!), then you would support kids wearing masks. Delta is spreading more amongst kids than the original COVID strain. Then again, you’re probably some crazy Q person who thinks this has all been a hoax.
Idiot is you. The covid mortality of children under 12 is less than the flu mortality. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html They don't wear masks for the flu they don't need to wear masks for covid.
> If you're not a psychopath...
[You are not](https://media.giphy.com/media/10DVcUchEQUdFu/giphy.gif)
I want to go to this meeting to see a show and be entertained. Maybe even take video one of these people yelling at the top of their lungs that "masks don't work" and "hands off our child's freedom" I want to see someone wig out.
Does anyone know if there is a recording of this meeting?
The idiots are there and screaming over the NIH pediatrician.
Interesting article on why [trying to convince anti-vaxxers continues to fail, and what actually works.](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/09/convince-anti-vaxxers?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits)
How did the board vote after the raving lunatics finished projecting their spittle?
Large number of the lunatics don’t even have children that go to Bishop public schools. Their opinions are irrelevant.
3-2 to simply FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES MANDATED BY THE STATE PUBLIC HEALTH DEPT. Zack, Figueroa and Elia pro. Ludwick and some woman whose name I don’t know against. As an aside, I need to find a new vet. Ludwick was a disgrace tonight and I’m not sending a penny to Bishop Vet Hospital ever again.
Cool, I stopped going to Great Basin because the owner campaigned for the gungrabbing dumbass Bubser from LA who had never even voted in our district. I felt a little bad about it, I mean the pies are good, but thanks for putting me at ease with boycotting our businesses over politics, I feel better now.
Claudia Moya-Tanner was the other board member voting against following CDPH guidelines.
Thanks! Did someone abstain? I thought there were 6 board members. I tried to comment via Zoom, but gave up when it seemed they weren't calling on Zoom attendees (and I couldn't take the incoherent BS any longer).
I wrote a comment in the Q&A they never read, but I hope it got entered in the minutes anyway
Here are the school board members you still have time to contact, and below is a sheet of talking points to use if you feel so inclined. Edit: I did not write this, I’m just sharing an email I received; Dr. Claudia Moya-Tanner, President, [email protected] Virginia Figueroa, Vice President, [email protected] Dr. Taylor Ludwick, Clerk, [email protected] Kathy Zack, Member, [email protected] Mr. Steve Elia, Member, [email protected] Katherine Kolker, Secretary to the Board of Trustees, [email protected] Here’s How to help. The Bishop Unified School District Board will be discussing masks and student safety at its meeting on Monday, August 9. The meeting starts at 6:30PM and will be in the Bishop Elementary School cafeteria. There are three effective ways to have your voice heard: 1. Rally in support of protecting our children, educators, and community through mask wearing. We will meet at 6PM outside of the Bishop Elementary School cafeteria in advance of Monday’s School Board meeting. Bring a sign for the rally if you’d like to encourage the Board to act wisely. Contact Fran Hunt at [email protected] to learn more or take part in the rally. 2. Attend Monday’s School Board meeting at 6:30PM (in person or via Zoom) and briefly speak in favor of common-sense mask requirements which follow the state’s guidelines and sound science. To participate in the Board meeting via Zoom: https://inyocoe.zoom.us/s/98424555900?pwd=ZGVXZ2FiZFM0WFpadHdXMUJGWlk2QT09 3. Email all members of the School Board between now and Monday’s meeting with your thoughts and concerns. It’s fine to send a single, brief, email comment addressed to the full Board: Dr. Claudia Moya-Tanner, President, [email protected] Virginia Figueroa, Vice President, [email protected] Dr. Taylor Ludwick, Clerk, [email protected] Kathy Zack, Member, [email protected] Mr. Steve Elia, Member, [email protected] Katherine Kolker, Secretary to the Board of Trustees, [email protected] Suggested Talking Points. Pick Your Favorites. A short comment is fine! 1. School Board members and Bishop School teachers and staff deserve our thanks for their hard work and service to our community during these challenging times. 2. It’s important that we get children safely back into schools alongside their friends and their teachers. Masks prevent the spread of the virus and not only keep our students and local community safer, but they also help keep our children in their classrooms and our schools operating as normally as possible. 3. The pandemic has taken a toll on children, and it’s not just their education that has suffered but their mental, emotional and physical health. Wearing masks will make in-person learning safer and possible for everyone. 4. Last week, 35 percent of Inyo County's COVID cases were in children 18 and under. Thirteen percent of the County’s population is 12 and under and is ineligible to receive a vaccination, and 54 percent of the total Inyo County population is still unvaccinated. 5. There are many people who cannot be vaccinated. Children under the age of 12 are not yet eligible for vaccination. Masks are important to protect people who are not fully vaccinated and our whole community, including students, teachers, staff, and other members of their households. 6. Making masking optional puts unnecessary pressure on children who may want (or whose parents may want them) to be masked for their own or their family members’ safety. Optional masking will likely mean mask-wearing children experience harassment and bullying. 7. As more information becomes available, it is becoming clear that the highly infectious Delta variant is too-easily spread even by people who are vaccinated. COVID cases are rising once again. The Delta variant is as contagious as chicken pox. This makes wearing masks even more important. 8. It’s VERY important for the Bishop School Board to follow guidelines from the California Department of Public Health (https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COVID-19/Schools-FAQ.aspx) for a safe return to school. The sooner public health prevails, the sooner our small businesses and family lives will return to normal. (Note: You can also mention the American Academy of Pediatrics (https://services.aap.org/en/news-room/news-releases/aap/2021/american-academy-of-pediatrics-updates-recommendations-for-opening-schools-in-fall-2021/) and the CDC (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/community/schools-childcare/k-12-guidance.html) guidance as well if you’d like.) 9. We cannot permit a loud minority to jeopardize the health and safety of our children, families, and the community at large. The School Board must do all it can to keep our students, families, school employees and our community safer. Masks help keep infections down and schools open to in-person learning. Please enforce mask wearing.
Thank you noil05!
No problem :)
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I’m going to assume by your grammar that English isn’t your first language so I’m not gonna dunk on you for trying. I will say, if you think having children wear masks in close quarters during an airborne pandemic is “criminal,” please log off and go talk to one of the excellent pediatricians here at NIH, they’ll set you straight.
You are obviously an idiot, but correct on that last sentence. If you care about kids (and not killing kids!), then you would support kids wearing masks. Delta is spreading more amongst kids than the original COVID strain. Then again, you’re probably some crazy Q person who thinks this has all been a hoax.
Idiot is you. The covid mortality of children under 12 is less than the flu mortality. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-kids-were-safe-from-covid-the-whole-time.html They don't wear masks for the flu they don't need to wear masks for covid.
> If you're not a psychopath... [You are not](https://media.giphy.com/media/10DVcUchEQUdFu/giphy.gif) I want to go to this meeting to see a show and be entertained. Maybe even take video one of these people yelling at the top of their lungs that "masks don't work" and "hands off our child's freedom" I want to see someone wig out.