Editor:
Re: I skipped my New Westminster classes because I don’t feel safe, Record Letters
Dear Emma Sullivan-Collins: though I appreciate your right to protest while we still have that freedom, many parents disagree with your notions.
Myself, along with many parents whose children attend school with mine, would pull our children from school the minute masks were made mandatory.
My children are in primary school, where masks are optional for all students in all areas of the school. Interestingly, there have not been any transmissions of the virus. I view masks on small children as a form of child abuse.
To continuously deprive a developing brain from proper adequate flow of oxygen for hours on end is unacceptable and unnecessary. An immediate family member recently overdosed. In our last conversation before her passing she said, "I don't want to live in a world where I am not allowed to breathe fresh air, and my only other alternative is to be bullied. I cry every time I have to put it on."
As I am making her funeral arrangements, I asked the funeral director if the virus or suicide/overdoses have been the larger number of deaths and he confirmed that suicide/overdose deaths under his care hold the larger numbers overall. While you may have skipped school on Dec. 1st, our school was full and I would say attendance was average, so you were definitely the vocal minority.
Gabriella Kriss, New Westminster
