Day 726: Above the Law

It's a big day for thinking oneself above the law. The FDA has decided that, because it hired reviewers who can't read, it won't be meeting the court-ordered FOIA deadline for the next 55,000 pages of Pfizer vaccine data.

A school system in Riverside, NY is refusing to abide by the state supreme court order overturning mask requirements in schools. For their part, angry post-COVID parents refused to take back their unmasked children yesterday.

A similar standoff took place in Virginia:

Fairfax County Public Schools made a show of defying Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s order that schools respect parental rights on masking on Tuesday, with an assistant principal standing in front of the school to suspend students without masks, and a public relations staffer who said the media was not allowed to watch the conflict between state and local governments play out.

P.S. Massachusetts cases were up five ninths of a percentage point again today.