A newly elected Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee says she and her colleagues are receiving hate mail over a planned motion to instate a new mask mandate and those letters may persuade some of them to vote against it. ottnews
A newly elected Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustee says she and her colleagues are receiving hate mail over a planned motion to instate a new mask mandate and those letters may persuade some of them to vote against it.
Kaplan-Myrth says the letters include comments referring to children as "political pawns" or comments saying a mask mandate is "criminal" or a "human rights violation." She says she has forwarded at least one threatening email to Ottawa police. OCDSB staff reached out to some principals to get a sense on masking of students and staff ahead of an emergency school board meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when trustees are set to debate Dr. Kaplan-Myrth's motion to make masks mandatory for all students, teachers and staff in schools.
In the motion, Dr. Kaplan-Myrth notes there has been a "significant increase" in COVID-19, influenza and RSV cases across the city of Ottawa. "This is time for everyone to do what we know works to help stop the spread of all these viruses and to keep our kids' health," said CHEO Chief of Staff Dr. Lindy Samson when asked on Friday about mandatory masking in schools.
"Children who are ending up in the emergency departments and sadly who are ending up in the ICU requiring resuscitation because of respiratory viruses that we could have prevented with such simple measures as wearing a mask," she told CTV News on Monday.
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