A group of anti-vaccine/anti-vaccine mandate activists protested at Walk to School Day ...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Maybe b/c my kids is sensitive to loud sounds, I'm taking this worse than others but... WTF?

Do people really think that yelling while parents are walking little kids to school is a good thing?

Yell at me all you want.
Yell at my kid? You'll regret it.

A group of anti-vaccine/anti-vaccine mandate activists protested at Walk to School Day in Beverly Hills today. Protesters followed Mayor Bob Wunderlich from the civic center to Hawthorne Elementary School, engaging in heated exchanges with parents.
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In the morning around 8:15, the group confronted Mayor Robert Wunderlich. He proposed that three members of the group meet him in the afternoon to allow him to walk to school with parents and kids.

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As the group crosses from the Civic Center, they merge with a large group of parents and children. The protesters yell at them that masks are “child abuse.”

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While most parents expressed support or indifference for masking and vaccines, a few sided with the protesters, including this man.

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[Walleye]

1. So they are traumatizing children to protect them?

[Scrivener7]

2. "Most" support the mandate, but of course they highlight the one who doesn't.

[The Magistrate]

4. It Is Ridiculous, Ma'am

The most benign take is that it is a sort of corollary to 'man bites dog' being newsworthy where 'dog bites man' is not. I expect it is more a 'click-bait' sort of thing, in which coverage of an event is judged by how many people become agitated by the headline and stick through the whole story. This kind of presentation will draw attention from both opponents and supporters of the 'lets spread the covid' crowd, as well as people who just like a freakshow.

Factual reporting would state the overwhelming majority approve of the school's policy, with barely any hold-outs making themselves evident, as much by their bizarre behavior as their poor understanding of the circumstances facing staff and students.

[Scrivener7]

5. It is. And it is becoming the way EVERYTHING is reported. Those controlling our media

seem to be trying to keep us all in a state of constant fear and agitation.

And I am as guilty as anyone else of clicking on click bait without thinking. You don't realize it's click bait till you have been caught.

I don't even know how to stop being their patsy.

[Jilly_in_VA]

3. 99% of the kids are fine with masks

They just want to go to school. There are a few who can't tolerate them for medical reasons---severe autism, or like one little boy I just read about, Cornelia de Lange syndrome---and generally exceptions are being made for them. It's these supposed adults who are the problem. They should be herded away into a "protest zone" far from school entrances, kind of like they've done with abortion clinics in some places. Charge them with endangering the children if they're unmasked.