Libertarian: Youngkin-Defiers Ignore Science

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin “declared an end to mask mandates in the state’s public schools,” letting parents “decide whether their children should wear masks” — but some “school districts vow to defy” the new gov, with “encouragement from White House press secretary Jen Psaki,” fumes Reason’s Robby Soave. Yet the “science isn’t actually on school districts’ side”: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research they cite has been thoroughly “debunked.” And “Omicron has managed to evade mitigation efforts almost entirely.” Fortunately, the variant is mild. “Healthy young people” have “little to fear, rare exceptions aside.” But no “faces are more concealed than young people’s,” with school mask mandates in place even in cities that have relaxed general mask mandates.