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A security official for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia directed principals to obtain a warrant from a magistrate if students attempted to enter the school without wearing a mask, the latest escalation in the commonwealth's mask wars.

The fight over masking Virginia’s school children will go on for at least a while longer. On Friday a judge in Virginia sided with pro-mask mandate school boards, and halted temporarily an executive order issued by new Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that makes masks optional in schools.

Police in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) expect crowd sizes for the “Convoy to Canberra” to peak on Feb. 8 when federal parliament resumes, with protestors expected to gather outside Parliament House.

'Mask hypocrisy is practically a status symbol now,' National Review's Rich Lowry tweeted

Democrats still run the Senate but have lost their ability to muscle bills and nominations through the chamber by themselves.

Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, faced protests on Saturday against vaccine mandates which spread from the capital of Ottawa.

Local parents file claims against the surety bonds of Scottsdale, Arizona school board members, asking them to make substantial changes or risk hefty fines.

Virginia’s governor, attorney general, and the superintendent of public instruction have asked to join a lawsuit on behalf of parents fighting to opt their children out of mask mandates at school.

Eric Garcetti told reporters he was holding his breath to take his mask off at the Rams-49ers game last Sunday.

The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the covid-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist  portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public enemy.