More on that new kiddy-vaccine mandate

another check-the-box merit appointee

Sure, there’s no evidence that the vaccine will work — in fact, it won’t — so the kids will have to stay masked — another bit of impotent theater — “out of an abundance of caution”, says CDC Flack Rochelle Walensky.

She makes no reference to the harm to children caused by mask mandates, nor the worldwide findings that children aren’t getting or transmitting the dreaded bug, nor the fact that the masks themselves are useless.

She doesn’t mention those issues because this is about showing parents who’s in control; it has nothing to do with disease prevention, just as unleashing the FBI against protesting parents has nothing to do with preventing actual harm to the agents of the state who sit on school boards.

Or, for that matter, and for the first time in history, locking healthy people in their homes during a pandemic,