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Our local paper this morning featured an article from the Concord Monitor reporting that a group of parents from Merrimack NH are suing because their children are being forced to wear a mask. Maybe I’m not thinking clearly or logically… but… it strikes me that parents whose children are required to wear masks to prevent the spread of Covid are no different that the parents whose children were required to avoid packing PB and J sandwiches because on the students in a classroom or— ins some cases a school— are allergic to peanuts. Such mandates often elicit compassionate reactions and, to the best of my knowledge, have never elicited lawsuits. It seems to me that the right to the good health and well-being of all children and adults in a school and in a neighborhood, region, state or nation override concerns about wearing a mask for a short term. .