Jomsky, Mark
From: Thomas Bolger
Sent: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 10:27 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End the Mandates
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Re: End the Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
It is difficult to quantify the damage perpetrated on our children by the state and local governments as a result of online learning, mask wearing, testing and living in a state of fear and uncertainty. The current environment where kids must test, quarantine and endlessly mask on a massive scale cannot continue and is not viable.
The never-ending state of emergency, by which unelected officials maintain power and mandate policies, and the lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Pasadena residents, and most especially parents, are tired of being governed by unelected health officials in violation of our constitutional rights to transparency, public participation, and due process. We as parents would like to decide what is best for our children's health and safety.
The Emergency Services Act states that an emergency can be declared when there exists "extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state." The act also states that the government must terminate the state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. A state of emergency cannot be indefinite.
Mayor Gordo and City Council, you are the officials elected by the people and we ask that you start to question this state of emergency and the decisions being made by the leaders that hold the powers under this order. You are the voice for We the People and we are questioning orders that defy science and facts and logic and do more harm than good. This is the first time in history where we have used children to protect adults. It is time for us as adults to now let go of the fear and look at the truth and start standing up for and protecting our children. Not from the sniffles, but from policies that keep them out of school, derail their development and learning and damage their mental health.
WE CALL FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. No more mandatory masking, no more testing, let them lead normal lives. The time of them carrying the burden for adults is over.
3 - We urge the removal of mandates for the majority of COVID policies in public including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL. You want to wear a mask - great.
You want a booster - go for it. Feb 15 the state mandate lapses - the mandate must end 1 4 - We urge PPHD to refocus its efforts where they will do the most good - protecting the vulnerable, and offering therapeutics for people who contract symptomatic COVID.
Sincerely,
Thomas Bolger
Pasadena, CA 91103 Constituent
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2 Jomsky, Mark
From: Christina Baker
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 5:36 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End the Mandates
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Re: End the Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
It is difficult to quantify the damage perpetrated on our children by the state and local governments as a result of online learning, mask wearing, testing and living in a state of fear and uncertainty. The current environment where kids must test, quarantine and endlessly mask on a massive scale cannot continue and is not viable.
The never-ending state of emergency, by which unelected officials maintain power and mandate policies, and the lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Pasadena residents, and most especially parents, are tired of being governed by unelected health officials in violation of our constitutional rights to transparency, public participation, and due process. We as parents would like to decide what is best for our children's health and safety.
The Emergency Services Act states that an emergency can be declared when there exists "extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state." The act also states that the government must terminate the state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. A state of emergency cannot be indefinite.
Mayor Gordo and City Council, you are the officials elected by the people and we ask that you start to question this state of emergency and the decisions being made by the leaders that hold the powers under this order. You are the voice for We the People and we are questioning orders that defy science and facts and logic and do more harm than good. This is the first time in history where we have used children to protect adults. It is time for us as adults to now let go of the fear and look at the truth and start standing up for and protecting our children. Not from the sniffles, but from policies that keep them out of school, derail their development and learning and damage their mental health.
WE CALL FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. No more mandatory masking, no more testing, let them lead normal lives. The time of them carrying the burden for adults is over.
3 - We urge the removal of mandates for the majority of COVID policies in public including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL. You want to wear a mask - great.
You want a booster - go for it. Feb 15 the state mandate lapses - the mandate must end. 1 4 - We urge PPHD to refocus its efforts where they will do the most good - protecting the vulnerable, and offering therapeutics for people who contract symptomatic COVID.
Sincerely,
Christina Baker
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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2 Jomsky, Mark
From: Berne evans
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 6:45 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subiect: Stop Depriving Kids of Normalcy
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Re: Stop Depriving Kids of Normalcy
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
In recent days, governments across the US and around the world have rolled back their restrictive Covid 19 mandates. They have done this for a variety of reasons - covid numbers are rapidly declining, scientists are openly questioning the lack of science supporting the efficacy of the mandates - as well as the real-world realization that they just aren't working, and citizens are expressing frustration over the mixed messaging and outrage after witnessing the toll mandates have taken on our communities and especially our children.
On Monday, Governor Newsom announced the end of indoor mask mandates in California as of February 15th.
That is, of course, except for children, who must continue to wear masks in school and day care, all day, every day, likely indefinitely. School children and masking are not even part of the discussion when it comes to ending these harmful mandates. This is outrageous for so many reasons but mainly because the LEAST at risk population are being forced to protect anxious adults and they are suffering immeasurably for it. The United States is uniquely aggressive in masking children as young as 2 years old, against the recommendation of the WHO. According to Vinay Prasad, oncologist at UCSF, Jonathan Darrow of Harvard University and Ian Liu of the University of Colorado, "We are well past the emergency phase of this pandemic, and it should be well- known by now that wearing cloth face coverings or surgical masks, universal or otherwise, has a very minor role to play in preventing person-to-person transmission. It is time to stop overselling their efficacy and unrealistic expectations about their ability to end the pandemic." The argument that students must wear masks all day at school seems to be that they must protect teachers and vulnerable people in their homes. With vaccinations available to teachers and those vulnerable relatives, why do students need to wear masks? We have made this unforgivable decision to shift the anxieties of adults onto the youngest members of society that count on us to defend their interests before our own. Kids don't protect adults! Vaccines and masks protect the individual that chooses to take and wear them. We can no longer place the burden of protecting the vulnerable on our children. They have suffered enough. NO one needs "normal" more than children. We have deprived kids so much already these last two years, and it is time to stop restricting their ability to achieve normalcy when COVID is now on par with the flu in terms of risk to kids.
Sincerely,
Berne evans
-
Pasadena, CA 91105 Constituent
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1 Jomsky, Mark
From: Kristin Harrison
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 7:02 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End the Mandates
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Re: End the Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
It is difficult to quantify the damage perpetrated on our children by the state and local governments as a result of online learning, mask wearing, testing and living in a state of fear and uncertainty. The current environment where kids must test, quarantine and endlessly mask on a massive scale cannot continue and is not viable.
The never-ending state of emergency, by which unelected officials maintain power and mandate policies, and the lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Pasadena residents, and most especially parents, are tired of being governed by unelected health officials in violation of our constitutional rights to transparency, public participation, and due process. We as parents would like to decide what is best for our children's health and safety.
The Emergency Services Act states that an emergency can be declared when there exists "extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state." The act also states that the government must terminate the state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. A state of emergency cannot be indefinite.
Mayor Gordo and City Council, you are the officials elected by the people and we ask that you start to question this state of emergency and the decisions being made by the leaders that hold the powers under this order. You are the voice for We the People and we are questioning orders that defy science and facts and logic and do more harm than good. This is the first time in history where we have used children to protect adults. It is time for us as adults to now let go of the fear and look at the truth and start standing up for and protecting our children. Not from the sniffles, but from policies that keep them out of school, derail their development and learning and damage their mental health.
WE CALL FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. No more mandatory masking, no more testing, let them lead normal lives. The time of them carrying the burden for adults is over.
3 - We urge the removal of mandates for the majority of COVID policies in public including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL. You want to wear a mask - great.
You want a booster - go for it. Feb 15 the state mandate lapses - the mandate must end. 1 4 - We urge PPHD to refocus its efforts where they will do the most good - protecting the vulnerable, and offering therapeutics for people who contract symptomatic COVID.
Sincerely,
Kristin Harrison
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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2 Jomsky, Mark
From: Kirsten Clougherty
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 7:56 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End the State of Emergency in Pasadena
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Re: End the State of Emergency in Pasadena
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
Pasadena and Los Angeles County children are the most masked and mandated children in America, yet we now know kids are the least affected from COVID-19. It is concerning that we have data showing COVID-19 is not impacting children, yet our children statistically have paid the highest price, and still do. So far, our track record of keeping kids less impacted from strict measures is nowhere near stellar here in California. After almost two years of COVID taking over our lives, we now know children still have not regained their learning loss from previous school closures, cases of mental health problems are skyrockting, suicide attempts have risen by 51% according to the CDC, and sadly, many schools still have not returned to normal. It is time to end the never-ending state of emergency.
The newest post surge masking requirements do not get our kids closer to what we all consider a normal return to school like we all remember; running, playing, learning and eating without concern for the latest variant or the newest mandated mask variety. The lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Masking kids needs to end on February 15th when the state order expires.
We are not distributing the risks of mandates and protocols fairly by having kids in stifling surgical masks, quarantining at home for close contacts for days on end, and going beyond CDC recommendations for COVID protocols like masking during outdoor playtime. Even more concerning is that we will soon have the Super Bowl here in LA while kids face even stricter protocols than any child in the nation. If LA County can hold the Super Bowl, there is no state of emergency. Period.
It is time to return to the normal we all once knew and take kids into consideration and start treating them as growing human beings with the ability to reach appropriate developmental milestones without having to overcome more unnecessary obstacles. There are many kids around this country, and the entire world, who do not face the type of archaic policies of masks and quarantine in which our children continue to be entrenched.
Let's move beyond the COVID cases in our dashboard and begin treating our kids who remain in crisis by recognizing their needs first and foremost by getting them back to normal. Public health does not let one group fail to support another.
Sincerely,
Kirsten Clougherty
Pasadena, CA 91107 Constituent
1 Jomsky, Mark
From: Trevessa Terrile
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 8:16 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subiect: Emergency Services Act and Kids
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Re: Emergency Services Act and Kids
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
It is difficult to quantify the damage perpetrated on our children by the state and local governments as a result of online learning, mask wearing, testing and living in a state of fear and uncertainty. The current environment where kids must test, quarantine and endlessly mask on a massive scale cannot continue and is not viable.
The never-ending state of emergency, by which unelected officials maintain power and mandate policies, and the lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Pasadena residents, and most especially parents, are tired of being governed by unelected health officials in violation of our constitutional rights to transparency, public participation, and due process. We as parents would like to decide what is best for our children's health and safety.
The Emergency Services Act states that an emergency can be declared when there exists extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state." The act also states that the government must terminate the state of emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. A state of emergency cannot be indefinite.
Mayor Gordo and City Council, you are the officials elected by the people and we ask that you start to question this state of emergency and the decisions being made by the leaders that hold the powers under this order. You are the voice for We the People and we are questioning orders that defy science and facts and logic and do more harm than good. This is the first time in history where we have used children to protect adults. It is time for us as adults to now let go of the fear and look at the truth and start standing up for and protecting our children. Not from the sniffles, but from policies that keep them out of school, derail their development and learning and damage their mental health.
WE CALL FOR THE FOLLOWING:
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. No more mandatory masking, no more testing, let them lead normal lives. The time of them carrying the burden for adults is over.
3 - We urge the removal of mandates for the majority of COVID policies in public including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL. You want to wear a mask - great.
You want a booster - go for it. Feb 15 the state mandate lapses - the mandate must end. 1 4 - We urge PPHD to refocus its efforts where they will do the most good - protecting the vulnerable, and offering therapeutics for people who contract symptomatic COVID.
Sincerely,
Trevessa Terrile
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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Jomsky, Mark
From: Tanya Pitre
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:26 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End Mask Mandates, Asymptomatic Testing and Close-Contact Quarantining for all Pasadena Schools
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Re: End Mask Mandates, Asymptomatic Testing and Close-Contact Quarantining for all Pasadena Schools Dear Mr. Jomsky,
I am writing on behalf of my child to ask that the Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) follow recent and accurate scientific data and allow our students to return to normalcy without harmful and unnecessary policies like mandatory masking indoors and out, excessive quarantining, and ineffective routine asymptomatic testing. All of these policies have kept thousands of Pasadena students from attending and fully participating in classroom instruction for two years.
The PPHD must stop looking at public health from the singular lens of eliminating COVID-19 cases and weigh the consequences of public health restrictions on healthy innocent children who have suffered immensely as a result of harmful school closures, masking and other needless restrictions.
There is significant evidence that children do not need to wear masks. In fact, the science for masking is underwhelming, inconclusive and unreliable and especially counterproductive when not worn properly. Kids are plainly the least likely to be struck ill by COVID-19 and probably are the least likely to spread it. At the same time, our city has ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical COVID-19 fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.
With teachers, staff and kids all having had the opportunity to be fully vaccinated, the perceived risk of death, hospitalization and severe illness to school communities has been alleviated. There is now no public health justification for forcing children to wear masks in school. When balanced against the physical, mental and emotional harm that is now becoming evident, it is clear that masks do more harm than good. Studies have found that masks cause anxiety and depressive feelings, and impair a child's social development and ability to communicate. Masks should never be considered the new normal for our children.
PPHD must start following the latest scientific data that shows current requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving and proper education.
I am calling on my local elected representative and health agency to discontinue these harmful policies on February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires and finally act in the best interest of our children. If we can host the Super Bowl in California, we are no longer in a state of emergency. Please let my child return to normalcy.
1 Sincerely,
Tanya Pitre
Pasadena, CA 91105
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Jomsky, Mark
From: Kelley Forgatch
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:36 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: No More Mandates
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Re: No More Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
Dear Honorable Victor Gordo,
K-12 student mask mandates, asymptomatic testing and close-contact quarantines are now ineffective, unnecessary and damaging to children. These policies must end February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires.
The virus is becoming endemic - we have all the tools we need to live with it, and it's clear our local health agency has never understood the significant mental health concerns and loss of learning their over cautious policies have caused-
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. 3 - We urge the removal of mandates including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL.
Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) must start following the current scientific data that shows that its requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving education.
Pasadena parents are calling on our local elected representatives and health department to discontinue these harmful policies and act in the interest of what is best for our children.
Sincerely,
Kelley Forgatch
Sincerely,
Kelley Forgatch
Pasadena, CA 91107 Constituent
1 Jomsky, Mark
From: James Banta sm>
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:49 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: Updates to K-12 Mask Mandates
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Re: Updates to K-12 Mask Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
K-12 student mask mandates, asymptomatic testing and close-contact quarantines are now ineffective, unnecessary and damaging to children. These policies must end February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires.
The virus is becoming endemic - we have all the tools we need to live with it, and it's clear our local health agency has never understood the significant mental health concerns and loss of learning their over cautious policies have caused-
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. 3 - We urge the removal of mandates including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL.
Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) must start following the current scientific data that shows that its requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving education.
Pasadena parents are calling on our local elected representatives and health department to discontinue these harmful policies and act in the interest of what is best for our children.
Sincerely,
James Banta
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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1 Jomsky, Mark
From: Harper burge
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 9:58 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: No More Mandates
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Re: No More Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
K-12 student mask mandates, asymptomatic testing and close-contact quarantines are now ineffective, unnecessary and damaging to children. These policies must end February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires.
The virus is becoming endemic - we have all the tools we need to live with it, and it's clear our local health agency has never understood the significant mental health concerns and loss of learning their over cautious policies have caused-
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. 3 - We urge the removal of mandates including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL.
Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) must start following the current scientific data that shows that its requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving education.
Pasadena parents are calling on our local elected representatives and health department to discontinue these harmful policies and act in the interest of what is best for our children.
Sincerely,
Harper burge
Pasadena, CA 91105 Constituent
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1 Jomsky, Mark
From: Dana Banta
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 11:42 AM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subiect: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH; MY CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY,
PHYSICALLY
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Re: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH; MY CHILDREN ARE SUFFERING MENTALLY, EMOTIONALLY,
PHYSICALLY
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
I am writing on behalf of my children to ask that the Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) follow recent and accurate scientific data and allow our students to return to normalcy without harmful and unnecessary policies like mandatory masking indoors and out, excessive quarantining, and ineffective routine asymptomatic testing.
I can tell you first hand that my four and six year old children are suffering mentally, emotionally and physically due to Covid restrictions set forth by PPHD, LA County and the state of California. They have fear in their eyes about having to wear a mask for seven plus hours a day or "what if they aren't wearing a mask".
They are being taught to think logically and the mask mandate is not logical. It instills confusion in them.
Emotionally they panic about wearing a mask. Physically, we are now enrolled in speech therapy for both of them due to masks. They cannot properly see how to annunciate words. They are falling behind in their learning.
I am dumbfounded that you would want children to suffer such harsh, grave consequences. What are the repercussions of this in five years, 10 years, when they are applying for colleges outside of California and must compete with other students who have been learning without masks and having a normal childhood education? In good conscience, can you tell me that the increase in depression, anxiety, suicide, drug use and additional costs of mental health and speech therapy to families in your city is not due to your mandates? That these feelings and actions are better than Covid positive cases? It saddens me to live in a city, which I have grown up in and loved so much, would value their own priorities and not stand up for what is right and the science affirms.
All of your policies have kept thousands of Pasadena students from attending and fully participating in classroom instruction for two years. They have primarily targeted Latino and Black students, giving them an unfair disadvantage.
The PPHD must stop looking at public health from the singular lens of eliminating COVID-19 cases and weigh the consequences of public health restrictions on healthy innocent children who have suffered immensely as a result of harmful school closures, masking and other needless restrictions. 1 There is significant evidence that children do not need to wear masks. In fact, the science for masking is underwhelming, inconclusive and unreliable and especially counterproductive when not worn properly. Kids are plainly the least likely to be struck ill by COVID-19 and probably are the least likely to spread it.
At the same time, our city has ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical COVID-19 fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.
With teachers, staff and kids all having had the opportunity to be fully vaccinated, the perceived risk of death, hospitalization and severe illness to school communities has been alleviated. There is now no public health justification for forcing children to wear masks in school.
When balanced against the physical, mental and emotional harm that is now becoming evident, it is clear that masks do more harm than good. Studies have found that masks cause anxiety and depressive feelings, and impair a child's social development and ability to communicate. Masks should never be considered the new normal for our children.
PPHD must start following the latest scientific data that shows current requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving and proper education.
I am calling on my local elected representative and health agency to discontinue these harmful policies on February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires and finally act in the best interest of our children.
If we can host the Super Bowl in California, a "mega event", we are no longer in a state of emergency. Please let my child return to normalcy.
Sincerely,
Dana Banta
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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2 Jomsky, Mark
From: Jennifer Hyll
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:16 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: It's Time to free our children from Masks
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Re: It's Time to free our children from Masks
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
In recent days, governments across the US and around the world have rolled back their restrictive Covid 19 mandates. They have done this for a variety of reasons - covid numbers are rapidly declining, scientists are openly questioning the lack of science supporting the efficacy of the mandates - as well as the real-world realization that they just aren't working, and citizens are expressing frustration over the mixed messaging and outrage after witnessing the toll mandates have taken on our communities and especially our children.
On Monday, Governor Newsom announced the end of indoor mask mandates in California as of February 15th.
That is, of course, except for children, who must continue to wear masks in school and day care, all day, every day, likely indefinitely. School children and masking are not even part of the discussion when it comes to ending these harmful mandates. This is outrageous for so many reasons but mainly because the LEAST at risk population are being forced to protect anxious adults and they are suffering immeasurably for it. The United States is uniquely aggressive in masking children as young as 2 years old, against the recommendation of the WHO. According to Vinay Prasad, oncologist at UCSF, Jonathan Darrow of Harvard University and lan Liu of the University of Colorado, "We are well past the emergency phase of this pandemic, and it should be well- known by now that wearing cloth face coverings or surgical masks, universal or otherwise, has a very minor role to play in preventing person-to-person transmission. It is time to stop overselling their efficacy and unrealistic expectations about their ability to end the pandemic." The argument that students must wear masks all day at school seems to be that they must protect teachers and vulnerable people in their homes. With vaccinations available to teachers and those vulnerable relatives, why do students need to wear masks? We have made this unforgivable decision to shift the anxieties of adults onto the youngest members of society that count on us to defend their interests before our own. Kids don't protect adults! Vaccines and masks protect the individual that chooses to take and wear them. We can no longer place the burden of protecting the vulnerable on our children. They have suffered enough. NO one needs "normal" more than children.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Hyll
[email protected]
1374 Edgehill Place Pasadena, CA 91103 Constituent
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1 Jomsky, Mark
From: Denise Botsford
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 1:45 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subiect: Public Health, COVID-19, and Pasadena Students CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. Learn more....
Re: Public Health, COVID-19, and Pasadena Students
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
Pasadena and Los Angeles County children are the most masked and mandated children in America, yet we now know kids are the least affected from COVID-19. It is concerning that we have data showing COVID-19 is not impacting children, yet our children statistically have paid the highest price, and still do. So far, our track record of keeping kids less impacted from strict measures is nowhere near stellar here in California. After almost two years of COVID taking over our lives, we now know children still have not regained their learning loss from previous school closures, cases of mental health problems are skyrockting, suicide attempts have risen by 51% according to the CDC, and sadly, many schools still have not returned to normal. It is time to end the never-ending state of emergency.
The newest post surge masking requirements do not get our kids closer to what we all consider a normal return to school like we all remember; running, playing, learning and eating without concern for the latest variant or the newest mandated mask variety. The lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Masking kids needs to end on February 15th when the state order expires.
We are not distributing the risks of mandates and protocols fairly by having kids in stifling surgical masks, quarantining at home for close contacts for days on end, and going beyond CDC recommendations for COVID protocols like masking during outdoor playtime. Even more concerning is that we will soon have the Super Bowl here in LA while kids face even stricter protocols than any child in the nation. If LA County can hold the Super Bowl, there is no state of emergency. Period.
It is time to return to the normal we all once knew and take kids into consideration and start treating them as growing human beings with the ability to reach appropriate developmental milestones without having to overcome more unnecessary obstacles. There are many kids around this country, and the entire world, who do not face the type of archaic policies of masks and quarantine in which our children continue to be entrenched.
Let's move beyond the COVID cases in our dashboard and begin treating our kids who remain in crisis by recognizing their needs first and foremost by getting them back to normal. Public health does not let one group fail to support another.
Sincerely,
Denise Botsford
-. Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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From: Victoria Waite
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 2:21 PM
To:
Juic Heath, COVID-19, and Pasadena Students
Subiect:
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Re: Public Health, COVID-19, and Pasadena Students
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
Pasadena and Los Angeles County children are the most masked and mandated children in America, yet we now know kids are the least affected from COVID-19. It is concerning that we have data showing COVID-19 is not impacting children, yet our children statistically have paid the highest price, and still do. So far, our track record of keeping kids less impacted from strict measures is nowhere near stellar here in California. After almost two years of COVID taking over our lives, we now know children still have not regained their learning loss from previous school closures, cases of mental health problems are skyrockting, suicide attempts have risen by 51% according to the CDC, and sadly, many schools still have not returned to normal. It is time to end the never-ending state of emergency.
The newest post surge masking requirements do not get our kids closer to what we all consider a normal return to school like we all remember; running, playing, learning and eating without concern for the latest variant or the newest mandated mask variety. The lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Masking kids needs to end on February 15th when the state order expires.
We are not distributing the risks of mandates and protocols fairly by having kids in stifling surgical masks, quarantining at home for close contacts for days on end, and going beyond CDC recommendations for COVID protocols like masking during outdoor playtime. Even more concerning is that we will soon have the Super Bowl here in LA while kids face even stricter protocols than any child in the nation. If LA County can hold the Super Bowl, there is no state of emergency. Period.
It is time to return to the normal we all once knew and take kids into consideration and start treating them as growing human beings with the ability to reach appropriate developmental milestones without having to overcome more unnecessary obstacles. There are many kids around this country, and the entire world, who do not face the type of archaic policies of masks and quarantine in which our children continue to be entrenched.
Let's move beyond the COVID cases in our dashboard and begin treating our kids who remain in crisis by recognizing their needs first and foremost by getting them back to normal. Public health does not let one group fail to support another.
Sincerely,
Victoria Waite
: Pasadena, CA 91105 Constituent
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From: Frances Morrison
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 3:09 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: Stop Depriving Kids of Normalcy
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Re: Stop Depriving Kids of Normalcy
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
In recent days, governments across the US and around the world have rolled back their restrictive Covid 19 mandates. They have done this for a variety of reasons - covid numbers are rapidly declining, scientists are openly questioning the lack of science supporting the efficacy of the mandates - as well as the real-world realization that they just aren't working, and citizens are expressing frustration over the mixed messaging and outrage after witnessing the toll mandates have taken on our communities and especially our children.
On Monday, Governor Newsom announced the end of indoor mask mandates in California as of February 15th.
That is, of course, except for children, who must continue to wear masks in school and day care, all day, every day, likely indefinitely. School children and masking are not even part of the discussion when it comes to ending these harmful mandates. This is outrageous for so many reasons but mainly because the LEAST at risk population are being forced to protect anxious adults and they are suffering immeasurably for it. The United States is uniquely aggressive in masking children as young as 2 years old, against the recommendation of the WHO. According to Vinay Prasad, oncologist at UCSF, Jonathan Darrow of Harvard University and lan Liu of the University of Colorado, "We are well past the emergency phase of this pandemic, and it should be well- known by now that wearing cloth face coverings or surgical masks, universal or otherwise, has a very minor role to play in preventing person-to-person transmission. It is time to stop overselling their efficacy and unrealistic expectations about their ability to end the pandemic." The argument that students must wear masks all day at school seems to be that they must protect teachers and vulnerable people in their homes. With vaccinations available to teachers and those vulnerable relatives, why do students need to wear masks? We have made this unforgivable decision to shift the anxieties of adults onto the youngest members of society that count on us to defend their interests before our own. Kids don't protect adults! Vaccines and masks protect the individual that chooses to take and wear them. We can no longer place the burden of protecting the vulnerable on our children. They have suffered enough. NO one needs "normal" more than children. We have deprived kids so much already these last two years, and it is time to stop restricting their ability to achieve normalcy when COVID is now on par with the flu in terms of risk to kids.
Sincerely,
Frances Morrison
Pasadena, CA 91106 Constituent
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From: Katherine Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 3:52 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: End the Mandates on February 15
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Re: End the Mandates on February 15
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
K-12 student mask mandates, asymptomatic testing and close-contact quarantines are now ineffective, unnecessary and damaging to children. These policies must end February 15th when the state indoor mask mandate expires.
The virus is becoming endemic - we have all the tools we need to live with it, and it's clear our local health agency has never understood the significant mental health concerns and loss of learning their over cautious policies have caused-
1 - We urge an immediate end to this perpetual state of emergency. 2 - We urge that children, our least vulnerable group, have all restrictions removed for them. 3 - We urge the removal of mandates including masking, mandatory vaccines and boosters. THEY SHOULD ALL BE OPTIONAL.
Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) must start following the current scientific data that shows that its requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving education.
Pasadena parents are calling on our local elected representatives and health department to discontinue these harmful policies and act in the interest of what is best for our children.
Sincerely,
Katherine Johnson
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•Pasadena, CA 91105 Constituent
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From: Matt Forgatch
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 3:58 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subiect: End the State of Emergency in Pasadena
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Re: End the State of Emergency in Pasadena
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
Dear, Honorable Victor Gordo,
Pasadena and Los Angeles County children are the most masked and mandated children in America, yet we now know kids are the least affected from COVID-19. It is concerning that we have data showing COVID-19 is not impacting children, yet our children statistically have paid the highest price, and still do. So far, our track record of keeping kids less impacted from strict measures is nowhere near stellar here in California. After almost two years of COVID taking over our lives, we now know children still have not regained their learning loss from previous school closures, cases of mental health problems are skyrockting, suicide attempts have risen by 51% according to the CDC, and sadly, many schools still have not returned to normal. It is time to end the never-ending state of emergency.
The newest post surge masking requirements do not get our kids closer to what we all consider a normal return to school like we all remember; running, playing, learning and eating without concern for the latest variant or the newest mandated mask variety. The lack of transparency on science and data on which these policies have been based, have resulted in a massive disruption to our children's lives and education. Masking kids needs to end on February 15th when the state order expires.
We are not distributing the risks of mandates and protocols fairly by having kids in stifling surgical masks, quarantining at home for close contacts for days on end, and going beyond CDC recommendations for COVID protocols like masking during outdoor playtime. Even more concerning is that we will soon have the Super Bowl here in LA while kids face even stricter protocols than any child in the nation. If LA County can hold the Super Bowl, there is no state of emergency. Period.
It is time to return to the normal we all once knew and take kids into consideration and start treating them as growing human beings with the ability to reach appropriate developmental milestones without having to overcome more unnecessary obstacles. There are many kids around this country, and the entire world, who do not face the type of archaic policies of masks and quarantine in which our children continue to be entrenched.
Let's move beyond the COVID cases in our dashboard and begin treating our kids who remain in crisis by recognizing their needs first and foremost by getting them back to normal. Public health does not let one group fail to support another.
Sincerely,
Matt Forgatch
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Matt Forgatch
.. Pasadena, CA 91107 Constituent
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From: Tracy Grohs
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 4:17 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: We Are Going on Two Years- End the Mandates
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Re: We Are Going on Two Years- End the Mandates
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
I am writing on behalf of my child to ask that the Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) follow recent and accurate scientific data and allow our students to return to normalcy without harmful and unnecessary policies like mandatory masking indoors and out, excessive quarantining, and ineffective routine asymptomatic testing. All of these policies have kept thousands of Pasadena students from attending and fully participating in classroom instruction for two years.
The PPHD must stop looking at public health from the singular lens of eliminating COVID-19 cases and weigh the consequences of public health restrictions on healthy innocent children who have suffered immensely as a result of harmful school closures, masking and other needless restrictions.
There is significant evidence that children do not need to wear masks. Kids are plainly the least likely to be struck ill by COVID-19 and probably are the least likely to spread it. Studies have shown masks provide little to no benefit in stopping the spread of viruses and can obviously be counterproductive when not worn properly. At the same time, our city has ignored that children living in mask-mandate states have had essentially identical COVID-19 fatality rates as kids living in mask-free states.
With teachers, staff and kids all having had the opportunity to be fully vaccinated, the perceived risk of death, hospitalization and severe illness to school communities has been alleviated. There is now no public health justification for forcing children to wear masks in school. When balanced against the physical, mental and emotional harm that is now becoming evident, it is clear that masks do more harm than good. Studies have found that masks cause anxiety and depressive feelings, and impair a child's social development and ability to communicate. Masks should never be considered the new normal for our children.
PPHD must start following the current scientific data that shows that current requirements for masks, quarantines and testing are outdated and overcautious. PPHD must also weigh the physical, mental and academic harm to students from these policies that unnecessarily deny students their fundamental right to a thriving and proper education.
I am calling on my local elected representative and health agency to discontinue these harmful policies and act in the best interest of our children. If we can host the Super Bowl in California, we are not in a state of emergency. Please let my child finally return to normalcy.
Sincerely,
Tracy Grohs
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From: Courtney Hotchkis
Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 4:34 PM
To: Jomsky, Mark
Subject: Let Kids Be Normal Again
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Re: Let Kids Be Normal Again
Dear Mr. Jomsky,
In recent days, governments across the US and around the world have rolled back their restrictive Covid 19 mandates. They have done this for a variety of reasons - covid numbers are rapidly declining, scientists are openly questioning the lack of science supporting the efficacy of the mandates - as well as the real-world realization that they just aren't working, and citizens are expressing frustration over the mixed messaging and outrage after witnessing the toll mandates have taken on our communities and especially our children.
On Monday, Governor Newsom announced the end of indoor mask mandates in California as of February 15th.
That is, of course, except for children, who must continue to wear masks in school and day care, all day, every day, likely indefinitely. School children and masking are not even part of the discussion when it comes to ending these harmful mandates. This is outrageous for so many reasons but mainly because the LEAST at risk population are being forced to protect anxious adults and they are suffering immeasurably for it. The United States is uniquely aggressive in masking children as young as 2 years old, against the recommendation of the WHO. According to Vinay Prasad, oncologist at UCSF, Jonathan Darrow of Harvard University and lan Liu of the University of Colorado, "We are well past the emergency phase of this pandemic, and it should be well- known by now that wearing cloth face coverings or surgical masks, universal or otherwise, has a very minor role to play in preventing person-to-person transmission. It is time to stop overselling their efficacy and unrealistic expectations about their ability to end the pandemic." The argument that students must wear masks all day at school seems to be that they must protect teachers and vulnerable people in their homes. With vaccinations available to teachers and those vulnerable relatives, why do students need to wear masks? We have made this unforgivable decision to shift the anxieties of adults onto the youngest members of society that count on us to defend their interests before our own. Kids don't protect adults! Vaccines and masks protect the individual that chooses to take and wear them. We can no longer place the burden of protecting the vulnerable on our children. They have suffered enough. NO one needs "normal" more than children.
Sincerely,
Courtney Hotchkis
Pasadena, CA 91105 Constituent
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