CT Court Denies Suit Against Schools On Mask Wearing

HARTFORD, CT — A Hartford judge denied an injunction filed by the Freedom Alliance to issue an emergency block on mandatory mask wearing in schools, WTNH reported. The Freedom Alliance claimed that the state Department of Education has illegally made students wear masks in schools during the pandemic and that the order threatens physical and emotional harm to school children.

The court wrote in a memorandum: "Nothing the Connecticut government has done about school mask wearing has been shown as irrational and dangerous rather than, like all human action, in some ways imperfect. Indeed, it aligns with ordinary expectations."

The memorandum noted that the Alliance tried to prove the urgent danger by presenting two witnesses as experts on the perils of mask wearing. One was a psychiatrist whose expertise the court did not recognize because his views were deemed too radical.

The court also noted that the Alliance presented the psychiatrist as an expert in fields beyond psychiatry.

"There is no emergency danger to children from wearing masks in schools," the court wrote. "Indeed, there is very little evidence of harm at all and a wide ranging medical consensus that it is safe."