Late last week, Oklahoma City Public Schools followed the lead of a few other school districts around the state and announced mask mandates for students and staff.
The move was in defiance of an intentionally weak, toothless and loophole-filled law that Oklahoma GOP lawmakers and Governor Kevin Stitt passed earlier this year that banned mask mandates in public schools, because you know, pandering to quack, science-denying, reality-averse voters is way more important than the health and safety of public school students and teachers.
For the most part, the mask mandate has been welcomed by just about everyone who lives in reality and treats the pandemic seriously, but some district staff members who probably think they're brave patriots standing up to a totalitarian government refused to comply.