Father mounts one-man protest to ‘Unmask the kids’

A father has mounted a one-man battle against masks in schools – sending his children in without them on Tuesday and encouraging fellow parents to sign an ‘Unmask the Kids’ poster at the school gate on Wednesday.

Daniele Baraggioli is fed up with what he says are the double standards around COVID-19 health measures that see children having to mask up all day in school while unmasked crowds mingled closely at the counting hall, during election rallies last weekend and in Paceville nightclubs.

His crusade at the gates of San Ġwann primary school on Wednesday morning also involved handing out surgical masks – to demonstrate that the type of masks many children are wearing do not even meet public health guidelines.

“At least, if they have to wear masks, they should be the proper ones,” he insisted. Baraggioli took his children to school in surgical masks on Wednesday, pledging to remove these if he saw a single child without a “proper” mask.

On Tuesday, his children were provided with masks by the school, which said it was supporting his cause.

Health guidelines say only medical masks protect the wearer from being infected. Image: Shutterstock

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