In front of an elementary school in the USA, opponents of mask attacks attack several supporters. A doctor reports “shocking” scenes.
Franklin / Tennessee – While the number of new infections with the coronavirus continues to rise in the USA, people continue to have heated arguments about wearing mouth and nose protection. The country is as deeply divided on this issue as it is on vaccinations, as an incident in a parking lot in front of an elementary school in Franklin showed.
In a video that CNN published, among other things, people can be seen leaving a primary school in Tennessee on Tuesday evening (August 10th, 2021) and being attacked and molested by more than 100 demonstrators – for wearing masks. The school commission had previously decided that primary school students, visitors and staff must wear a mask in all buildings and buses. It should end on September 21, reports CNN.
Masks in schools in the US: Opponents attack supporters
The angry crowd prevents the mask advocates: inside, who are sitting in a car, from driving away. People scream, “Take off your mask! No more masks! ”And threaten:“ We know who you are! We will find you! “
According to CNN, there had already been heated arguments between supporters and opponents of the mask during the meeting of the school commission. Pediatric intensive care doctor Jennifer King said, according to CNN, she is seeing more and more younger, previously healthy children in intensive care units admitted with shortness of breath. “This trend will get worse if we don’t act now.”
Corona in the USA: The topic of mask requirements in schools divides the population
Daniel Jordan, a former US Marine, was of a different opinion. According to CNN, he threatened the board of the commission: “Actions have consequences. You used to deal with sheep; prepare now to deal with lions ”.
Internal medicine specialist Britt Maxwell, who was on site Tuesday night, told CNN the events were shocking. When he left school with his wife, he said to her, “No matter what you say, remember, these are lives we’re trying to save,” Maxwell said. When they were outside, someone grabbed his face and called him a traitor.
US President Joe Biden reprimands Florida and Texas governors
The political controversy surrounding wearing masks in schools in the US state of Florida shows, among other things, how deeply divided the population in the USA is. Governor Ron DeSantis says there is no need for masks in class. The Republican recently threatened school principals to cut funding if they insist on mouth and nose protection. Just recently, US President Joe Biden severely reprimanded the governors in Florida and Texas and urged them to do more to combat the corona pandemic.
Due to the sharp increase in the number of new corona infections due to the highly contagious Delta variant, virologist Anthony Fauci, adviser to President Biden, warned of a new, even more dangerous variant of the corona virus on Wednesday (August 11, 2021). “If you allow the virus to circulate freely and don’t try to stop it, then sooner or later there is a chance that you will get another variant (…) that could be even more problematic than Delta,” said Fauci across from NBC. (uf)
