Dear School Board Members and Superintendent Kizner:
Please stop the ineffective and dangerous policy of requiring children to wear face masks in school. Wearing masks creates an environment of moist warm air conducive to the incubation of pathogens. The breathing of those pathogens introduces them into the mouth and lungs and on the skin of the children causing infections of the skin, tooth decay, and other illnesses. Some of those pathogens have been found to be resistant to antibiotics.
For example, laboratory analysis of six face masks worn by children at a Florida school found that “five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria.”
The laboratory analysis detected the following 11 dangerous pathogens on the masks:
Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumonia)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis (tuberculosis)
Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis, sepsis)
Acanthamoeba polyphaga (keratitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis)
Acinetobacter baumanni (pneumonia, blood stream infections, meningitis, UTIs—resistant to antibiotics)
Escherichia coli (food poisoning)
Borrelia burgdorferi (causes Lyme disease)
Corynebacterium diphtheriae (diphtheria)
Legionella pneumophila (Legionnaires’ disease)
Staphylococcus pyogenes serotype M3 (severe infections—high morbidity rates)
Staphylococcus aureus (meningitis, sepsis)
One-third (33%) of the pathogens found in the masks were determined to be antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
Edward Hendrie