Acting Secretary of Health Alison Beam, Pennsylvania’s top health official, said a statewide universal masking mandate remains off the table due to concerns that blowback may interfere with the Wolf administrations other COVID-19 response efforts.
By Christen Smith
Beth Ann Rosica: Masks while playing sports – students say it feels like being waterboarded
Local school districts have adopted policies requiring student athletes to wear masks while playing sports. But neither the science nor common sense explain why it’s helpful and mounting evidence shows why it’s harmful, bordering on barbaric.
By Beth Ann Rosica, Ph.D.
George Hofmann: How our masks may change us
It takes centuries to make a culture, and to understand that culture, a person must study with diligence the deepest thought of the centuries that formed it. To destroy it might be a much easier task.
By George Hofmann