CLAY: I want to give some credit here to all of the kids in Northern Virginia who are standing up against the absurd decisions being made regarding masks in schools. Even USA Today, which is probably the least threatening entirely of all the media sources out there — USA Today, least controversial, least threatening — they’ve got an article on their editorial page today saying it’s time to end masks in schools.

But the people in Northern Virginia — and maybe it’s because Buck’s point on this — they’re so unwilling to acknowledge that they might be wrong and that all those awful right wingers who are actually looking at the data and making the argument against masks are correct, they’re doubling and tripling down in the face of all of the science pointing out that masks don’t make sense. Here’s the Loudoun County assistant principal Janet Davidson. She’s informing parents, children who come back to school maskless will be charged with the crime of trespassing. Listen:

DAVIDSON: Until you arrive, your children will be held in an in-school restriction situation here at school. Uhh, it is important that I point out to you stated in what you’ll receive — it’s important that I point out to you — that they are not allowed on campus or on Loudoun County public school property. Starting tomorrow, it will be considered trespassing. So it’s important that I make that statement to you. The guidelines that we’re receiving from the county is student suspensions will end as soon as they are fully following mitigation policies.

BUCK: Can I say, Clay, first of all, these people, there’s something wrong with them. They’re mandating child abuse — and now beyond this, they’re acting in a way that makes people who are paying attention say, “Maybe we should just, like, tear the public school system down to the studs and start from scratch.”

There’s people that are watching this and listening to this and gotta be saying to themselves, “This is just outrageous beyond anyone’s expectations of how crazy they’ll be.” I mean, trespassing? Really? You’re gonna go there with kids who won’t wear masks? Keep in mind these are all adults who are going into restaurants without masks on. Children are interacting with each other without masks on all the time outside of school.

And yet here we are — and this is in Virginia, it’s not even in D.C. which is even loonier. They’re acting like they’re the good people here. And as I’ve said, the data and as we know the data is very clear that masks do not do a damn thing in schools. And you mentioned all the countries in Europe that are getting rid of all of covid restrictions.

And they’re sounding, by the way, not like they’re… You know, Fauci always says “relax restrictions.” Whenever they say that, that’s a tell. It means, “Okay, we’ll give you back a little freedom now but just know that we may take that away from you whenever we say so.” I think there are some other places that realize, “This just was all idiocy. This was all wrong.” And to the point how they don’t want to admit we were right about the masking? Yeah, I mean, the audience at MSNBC and CNN, they think the anchors they’re watching are smarter than you and me and they’re wrong. So this is the reality we’re dealing with.

CLAY: And very often — and let’s keep in mind here the Loudoun County vice principal there is directly contradicting the order from the governor of Virginia, which did not say you couldn’t wear a mask. It just said you got to choose. So all he did was end the mandate. If you still are convinced that masks work — despite the fact that there’s no evidence they do, by the way — you have the right to put your kid in a mask.

You have the right to wear a mask. And, by the way, I want to give a shout-out here to Washington State, where a student leader is addressing an organized maskless school protest. We need more kids looking at the science and standing up to. Listen to this.

🇺🇸 Washougal High School in Washington State

A hundred students were kicked out for refusing to wear a mask pic.twitter.com/vCE0V4JKOO

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WASHOUGAL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: Our hope is we can get this statewide. Now, I might get in trouble for this, but the plan still stands for Wednesday — for tomorrow, I mean. Everybody is gonna meet at the back row of the senior parking lot and we’re all walking into the school with no mask on. You can get me in trouble. They can suspend me. I don’t care. We’re done with this — and obviously all of you are too.

Obviously all you are done with the masks too. Now, again we’re doing this peacefully and respectfully. If a staff member asks you to put a mask on, you say, “No, thank you” and keep walked — and if they kick you out, then go home. And if people need rides home, then some of the seniors, I’m sure we could start giving people rides home.

BUCK: I want to find out who this kid is, Clay, so we can give him… First of all, he’s a senior so I think he’s probably 18. But just listening to him, I want to put on a helmet and shoulder pads and start tackling some libs. Like, I’m fired up.

CLAY: Well, this is what true teenage rebellion (chuckles) should be! What has been so frustrating to me is so many of these college kids are demanding more substantial regulation. They’re having protests to make the school require them to wear a mask, require them to get the covid shot — and it, to me, is the very antithesis of what teenage rebellion should be. I expected statements like this from kids long before now.

They’ve been wearing masks now in school for two years. And just now are kids saying, “Hey, you know what…?” I mean, I hope they’re looking at the data and recognizing it. But just now are they finally saying, “Hey, you know what? We’re gonna stand up against this?”