About.This website was created by a concerned mom living in Utah. I'm frustrated by the mix of information I'm finding on the mainstream media, and I'm increasingly concerned about the government mandates that are encroaching upon my life and that of my children and husband.
I designed this site to create a hub of information for other families. If you'd like to help me, please reach out. I'm only one person, but I know there are others out there who have the same concerns I do. The most recent mandate from Utah's Governor Herbert states that all high school students in the state that want to participate in ANY school supported extracurricular activities are now required to submit to bi-weekly testing for COVID-19. (begining November 30th 2020) This was the line for me. I didn’t anticipate the governor going after the one part of school that makes it worth attending for all the students. The extracurricular activities. By going after the activities, all students will be more willing to submit to this invasion of their medical privacy. Requiring my asymptomatic child to be tested for a disease that will do them very little harm is an invasion of their medical privacy. Using their results against them to then trace and track who they have associated with and where they have been violates their constitutional freedom of movement, and freedom of assembly. In August, the CDC stated that asymptomatic people do not need to be tested. This statement, of course was quickly swept under the rug. In October, the CDC declared that mandatory involuntary testing was unethical and illegal. (go to their site directly from the "Covid Information" tab) At the beginning of the school year, we were told: "it's just a mask” and it is for the greater good of the community. Most of us accepted that because we wanted our children to attend in-person school. Since that time, many of our school families have even submitted to allowing perfectly healthy children to miss 2 weeks of school to “quarantine” because they sat next to someone that tested positive. Learning has suffered, grades have gone down, scholarship opportunities are being lost, sports teams are being missed. At what point does this stop? At what point do we say no? My rights are important. At the beginning of the school year it was "just a mask." Now it is "just getting tested." I am concerned for what comes next, and what our children are being conditioned to. |
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
- C.S. Lewis