November 24, 2020, 12:20 pm
A Georgia mom threw her kid a 250-person homecoming dance in her house after the local high school canceled the event due to the pandemic, and after she posted anti-mask content on Facebook including calling making kids wear masks “child abuse.” According to a report by The Daily Beast, the woman who threw the event, Beth Knight, called the event “terrific” and said the kids who attended, out of 300 who bought tickets, had fun.
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She did not appear to mention how much she charged for those tickets.
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Photos from the event reportedly show zero attendees wearing masks, and Knight was unwilling to share any information on safety protocols she and her 250 guests may have followed, if any.
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In addition to being an anti-masker, Knight seems to think that the entire pandemic is a hoax created to encourage mail-in voting so that Democrats could steal the election from Trump.
“It seems the liberals and the Democrats want to keep the virus agenda front and center,” she said. “The conservatives, on the other hand, are ready to embrace freedom again. This whole virus plandemic scamdemic has totally ruined 2020. The media [is] paralyzing people with fear so they will do mail-in ballots to rig an election. They succeeded in election fraud. The election is over. People need to stop bowing down to the virus. Forcing people to wear masks is a crime.”
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She further claimed that none of the dance attendees had tested positive for COVID-19 nine days after the event, as far as she’d heard. However, as The Daily Beast points out, a similar dance held in Rolla, Missouri for 200 teens resulted in an outbreak that forced the school to return to go back to remote-only classes after the parents attempted to cover it up.
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Georgia currently sits near the top of the list in terms of total COVID-19 cases by state after Republican Governor Brian Kemp fought to keep restrictions loose in the state all year long. There were nearly 2,000 new cases recorded on Monday alone. One recent new positive case is embattled Senator Kelly Loeffler, who tested positive on Friday after continuing to campaign in her tight runoff race against Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff.
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Meanwhile, spokesperson for Georgia’s District 4 Public Health Hayla Folden is practically begging area students and parents to please stop.
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“It is frustrating when our staff are working around the clock to contact-trace and test,” she said. “We know it doesn’t just affect older people. It can affect everyone. It’s a pretty personal illness. Having had it myself, it attacks everyone just a little bit different.”
“There’s no way to know if one healthy teenager is going to be OK and one healthy teenager is going to end up in the hospital.”
h/t The Daily Beast
*First Published: November 24, 2020, 12:20 pm
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