Missouri’s Attorney General, Eric Schmitt, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, against school districts forcing students to wear masks.
The Lawsuit
The lawsuit explained why kids should not have to wear masks and gave statistics on COVID-19. The lawsuit stated that zero children under the age of 10 have died from COVID-19, [1] and that children make up less than 1 out of every 100,000 people who are hospitalized in Missouri. Later in the lawsuit, it was said that “Mask use by the general population shows, at best, a marginal impact on the spread of COID-19.” [2]
Let Parents Decide
Attorney General Schmitt said that parents should be able to decide, by themselves, whether they want their child to wear a mask for around seven hours a day.
We filed this suit today because we fundamentally don’t believe in forced masking, rather that parents and families should have the power to make decisions on masks… Americans are free people, not subjects. [3]
Local Schools
In a Alton School Board Meeting, the board voted to have a mask mandate until it be repealed. AltonMo.com reached out to Superintendent Eric Allen on the lawsuit. He said,
We will be following the progress of this legal proceeding as it plays out in the coming days and weeks.
Notes:
- ^https://www.oann.com/mo-attorney-general-sues-school-districts-for-imposing-mask-mandates-on-children/ (go back ↩)
- ^https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1430209490381574147/photo/1 (go back ↩)
- ^https://twitter.com/Eric_Schmitt/status/1430209490381574147/photo/1 (go back ↩)
