Viral Video: Georgia Mother Demands School Board Lift Mask Mandates

Courtney Ann Taylor, the mother of a 6 year old girl in Georgia, demands that her child’s school board lift mask mandates for children.

Video Transcript

“Every month, I come here and I hear the same thing – social and emotional health. If you truly mean that you would end the mask requirement tonight.”

“This is not March 2020 anymore. We have three vaccines, every adult in the state of Georgia that wants that vaccine is eligible to get it right now, and every one of us knows that young children are not affected by this virus. Their not, and that’s a blessing.”

“But as the adults what have we done with that blessing? We’ve shoved it to the side and we’ve said, ‘we don’t care. You’re still going to wear a mask on your face every day, 5 and six year old’s. You still can’t play together on the playground like normal children, 7 and 8 year old’s. We don’t care. We’re still going to force you to carry a burden that was never yours to carry.’ Shame on us.”

My 6 year old looks at me every month before I come here and she says, ‘are you going to tell them tonight. Tell them I don’t want to wear this any more. And I say, baby its not time to fight that battle yet. I try to explain there’s so many things, but it’s April 15, 2021, and it’s time. Take these masks off of my child.”

And I know what I’m going to be met with. But Miss Taylor, the CDC. We did not vote for the people at the CDC. We did elect leaders who do create policy. We elected the 5 of you. We chose you to make difficult decisions for our children. We chose you to make decisions that would be in our children’s best interest. Enforcing five, six, seven, eight, and nine-year-old little children to cover their noses and their mouths, where they breathe, for seven hours a day, every day for the last nine months for a virus that you know doesn’t affect them.” That is not in their best interest, and this has to stop.”

“Defend our children. My six-year-old can’t come up here and say this. It has to stop. Take these off of our children.”