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A significant number of Americans have decided that mandatory mask-wearing is tyranny. They refuse to be afraid, and they accept that getting ill once in a while is a fact of life. The trouble is that this debate is screwing up plans to reopen schools.

No governor wants hospitals filling up with sick children, and so in some states, they’ll just close the schools for everybody! And since both sides are dug in, it’s time to give people the choice to segregate themselves. Not racial segregation – but rather facial segregation, with separate schools for covered faces and naked faces.

In the covered-face school system, masks are mandatory – no mask, no school. In the naked-face school system, masks are optional. Both types of schools would stream classes online so no one’s left out, and parents and teachers alike get to choose which system they want to live under.

If no certified teachers sign up for the mask-optional schools, we refund those parents their school taxes, and they can home-school, or set up private naked-face academies; whatever they want. This is not intended to punish anyone, it’s just a way to open the schools and keep us from killing each other in the process.

America tends to lose all feeling in its extremities during an election year. So, let’s stop trying to change each other’s minds and just give people a choice.

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