A school nurse in New Jersey who claimed masks were not effective in protecting against the coronavirus and suggested requiring children to wear them is inhumane has been suspended.
Erin Pein, who refused to wear a mask herself while on the job at the school, said she was suspended by the Stafford Township school district, NJ.com reported.
In the video, Pein said forcing a child to wear a mask amounts to “child abuse” and can cause “anxiety and depression” due to what she described as the altering of how young children “learn how to be adults by recognizing faces and facial expressions.”
“Making these kids wear them for six or seven hours a day is awful,” she said.
Stephanie Silvera, an expert on epidemiology at Montclair State University, told NJ.com Pein’s claims are false and are a prime example of misinformation entering the mainstream of public life during the pandemic.