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COVID-19: Anti-mask protest outside Kelowna, B.C. school board office draws small crowd
COVID-19 protest held outside the Central Okanagan school district office in Kelowna, B.C., drew a small crowd on Wednesday.Protesters held signs that read “unmask our children,” “mandatory masks have no place in schools,” “children not politics” and “I can’t breathe.”Parent Zoe Plarowski said her son is in kindergarten and claims B.C.’s expanded mask mandate in the K-12 school system is unnecessary.“I don’t support the new mask mandate for young children, because, from the research I’ve seen, there is no asymptomatic spread of COVID, so there is no need for the masking, it doesn’t make sense,” she said. New COVID-19 concerns after pair of B.C.