Tina Descovich

News reporters showing up.

I'd never seen anything like it.

We started having to have security bring us to and from and in our school board meetings because of it.

Because I was speaking truth.

I was sharing knowledge that I had gained.

And then 2020 happened.

I'm up for re-election in August of 2020.

The height of COVID fear.

It's like two to three weeks before my election, and we get to vote on mandatory masking for children.

We have a break before our vote.

I go out to my car, call my political consultant.

What should I do?

He says, Tina, masking is polling at 85%, even in our red county right now.

If you vote against mandating masks for children, you will lose your election.

Thank you, political consultant.

I had spent weeks, our entire school board spent weeks, talking to epidemiologists, talking to doctors, reading research papers on mask effectiveness from 10 years ago and five years ago.

We followed the data of every child that was hospitalized in our county due to COVID.

We have a county of a half a million people.

Do you know how many kids were hospitalized?

Zero.