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The Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees held a public meeting today at 2:00 p.m. at their offices in Warrensburg. The agenda included a discussion of a health advisory based on recently released CDC guidelines and the rising number of cases in the county.

A somewhat organized anti-mask group, numbering around thirty individuals, attended the meeting. Several took the opportunity to offer public comment.

Anti-mask

Darlene Buckstead, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Opening

The board allocates thirty minutes at the beginning of their meetings for public comment. Just go ahead and listen:

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Public Comment

“…I’m gonna state straight out, there’s no, nobody got a right to tell me to put a mask on. Nobody. Or anybody else. You just don’t have the right…. I do not accept the premise that any of these vaccines work. I do not accept the premise that the masks work. I do not accept it…”

Megan Jaeger, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees


Meanwhile, in Johnson County, Missouri (July 12, 2021)

Donna Stewart, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees

Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Meeting

I spent about ninety minutes at the meeting in a closed room with several unmasked members of the board and the approximately thirty or so anti-maskers (and, some, by their comments, anti-vaccine). I wore an N95 mask with a good seal, covered by a cloth mask. I don’t know what upset me more – that I was, in all probability, at risk for exposure to COVID-19 or that my IQ probably dropped forty points after listening to their tiresome luddite anti-science drivel.