WEST CHESTER — Residents of Chester County decried the ongoing mask mandate of children in school on Wednesday during public comment at the commissioners’ meeting.

At the opening of the meeting, the Chester County commissioners were served with a tort complaint from Shannon Grady of West Pikeland Township.

Chester County Commissioners Marian Moskowitz and Josh Maxwell listen to a public speaker on Wednesday in West Chester. (JEN SAMUEL — MEDIA NEWSGROUP)

She is seeking punitive damages and equitable relief from the Chester County Health Department for recommending that masks be worn in school by children.

During public comment, a dozen Chester County residents demanded that the commissioners take action to end the ongoing mask mandates of children at school and while on the bus.

The masking requirement has been in place, except for last summer, since the spring of 2020.
Grady also addressed the commissioners during public comment.

“The main points from my public comments today were that the county’s public officials are not upholding their oaths of office and are perpetuating the implementation of policies to the community and schools that are harmful to their health,” she said on Wednesday afternoon.

“I performed a forensic analysis of carbon dioxide and oxygen concentrations of indoor air with facial coverings and gave it to the commissioners since our Department of Health has never bothered to see if this human experiment of masking kids all day long is harmful,” Grady said.

“They are committing crimes against humanity on our most vulnerable population, our children,” she said.

None of the commissioners were wearing masks at the meeting on Wednesday. Most of the audience was also maskless.

Teenager Grady Magrogan also spoke at the meeting. As a student, he decried the mask mandate of students in Downingtown Area School District and elsewhere.

Easttown resident Zahin Maneckshaw is the father of two sons.

During public comment, he said, “I’m here to speak on behalf of my two young boys that have to be subjected to sitting in a classroom with a mask on from 8 a.m. in the morning until school is dismissed.”

And the children also must wear masks while riding the school bus home.

“What I’m looking at today in front of me are individuals who’ve opted to not wear a mask. Why? Because it’s uncomfortable. It doesn’t feel good. It hinders,” Maneckshaw said. “And it doesn’t allow you and I to have an in-person, personable interaction.”

He said education isn’t just sitting in a classroom and “data dumping.”

Rather, Maneckshaw said, “Education is students being able to interact with their teachers, being able to approach their teachers and be able to look at facial expressions and to be able to understand those nuances.”

He added students need to interact with others, and collaborate, the way they once did.

Maneckshaw then listed examples in which “the science” called for different restrictions since 2020 including for people to walk one-way down the grocery aisle, to which the audience laughed.

He said all the restrictions have all been proven to be wrong.

“This should no longer be a recommendation,” said Maneckshaw regarding schoolchildren. “It should now be up to the parents to decide what to do.”

Mark Metic said no child died from COVID in Pennsylvania in 2020 during the height of the pandemic.

“Why are we putting masks on our kids?” asked Metic. “This has got to end. This is insanity. It has to end.”

He said politicians across the nation aren’t wearing masks.

“What happened to freedom of choice and parents taking care of their kids’ health?” he asked.

Metic encouraged parents who want their kids to be masked to do the research.

He added, “Other governors are lifting the mandates. What are we waiting for? Who’s in charge? Can somebody answer me? Is it left up to the school boards — and who are they to make that decision? It’s time for choice — back to America — the Constitution.”

Someone in the audience then said: “Amen.”

“Why are you recommending masks when you know they do not work?” asked Richard Kessler. “They are harmful to the children.”

He asked for reports on the impact of mask wearing upon children.

Ada Nestor of West Goshen said the restrictions on school children are against Pennsylvania law. She spoke virtually as her children are now homeschooled.

Nestor said the temporary approval of cloth masks constitute to an experimentation of children, which is unlawful in the Commonwealth, as parents have not been informed on the potential harm this causes, two years later.

“Parents have the right to have their children excluded from research studies,” Nestor said. “You are conducting research studies and experiments on our children while you sit there with smug looks on your faces — without masks covering your own faces.”

Nestor continued, “Our children are suffering in school because you are remaining silent. And playing games, saying ‘No, we don’t make recommendations – our health department isn’t getting involved — we’re not advising anyone.’ When we know for a fact, based on a Right To Know request, that that is a lie.”

She added, “You are elected to serve us — the people. You are not above us. You are not better than us. And you are supposed to do what we tell you to do. When you have a whole room of people demanding that you stop abusing our children it is time to listen.”

Kaitlin Barry, who spoke virtually, told the commissioners, “You in your position of power have choice.”

Barry said it was difficult to see the three commissioners sitting at the meeting sans masks while having to tell her children they must wear masks in order to attend school.

Masking is not morality, she said, adding that the Chester County Health Department holds all the cards because this agency is still recommending that children wear masks at school, which school boards are citing as their reasoning for their ongoing masking mandates.

“It is your words keeping our children in masks,” Barry said.

“When are you going to make a statement on these masks,” asked Melanie virtually to the commissioners.

The county did not provide her last name to the Daily Local.

“I’m waiting. We’re all waiting,” she said.

“I would also like to take a moment of silence for the children who have committed suicide due to masking.”

For nearly a minute, there was silence in the room.

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