GOV. RON DESANTIS: He is obsessed with having the government force kindergarteners to wear masks all day in school. In Florida, we believe that that’s the parents’ decision. Joe Biden thinks the federal government should come in and overrule the parents and force these young kids to wear these masks. You gotta wonder: Where are your priorities that you’re so obsessed with this issue and so obsessed with taking away parents’ rights, and you’re letting Afghanistan burn, our border burn, and so many other things.

BUCK: Welcome back to the Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. That was governor Ron DeSantis of Florida on Sean Hannity’s show last night on Fox, just pointing out what I think is obvious to anyone who’s paying attention, which is that the Democrats, the Biden administration have decided that masking up children…

This is like the Alamo for them. This is the last stand of the covid resistance. They’re completely dug in on this. When all that… The Biden administration line on this, Clay, for the last… Well, the last time he spoke about it — which was yesterday or the day before — the lie was that there are mask bans in schools. There are no mask bans.

CLAY: Yeah, that’s right.

BUCK: There are governors who are saying, “Parents should make the choice.” So essentially there are no mandates. But banning mandates, they pretend, is the same as banning masks because it gets them into their safetyism place of “Oh, my gosh! They want all the children to die.” These people are completely nuts. The data doesn’t support what they want to do.

But you can tell that they’re very invested in this, Clay. And I believe at some level it’s because if a state like Florida has kids unmasked, when they look at data after the first six months of the school year, it’ll be clear that in New York, where they’re gonna mask kids up…

They might as well put Saran Wrap over their head, on top of the mask. It’s crazy what they’re doing. They’re gonna see the data, and they’re gonna say, “Oh, the mandates don’t do anything.” I think they’re terrified of that ’cause they’re gonna look stupid because they are stupid.

CLAY: That’s right, and I say this. You guys know last week I went and spoke at my own school board. We’ve won that battle in the short term in my home state of Tennessee. I think it’s a couple of different factors here, Buck. One, if you want your kids to be in person for schooling, starting off without them wearing masks is important because it shifts the battleground.

Instead of the battleground being, “Hey, are schools going to be open or not?” you can fight on masks, which is a level beyond, “Are schools going to be open or not?” I think that’s significant. I also think there are lots of reasonable people out there — parents like me who care about our kids more than anything, that would do anything to keep them safe — that look at the data, know that there is nothing in any away that suggests that masking is making anybody safer.

And if you doubt that, look at what’s going on in Oregon, look at what’s going on in Hawaii, look as the number of cases is going to spread into many of these blue states which have been masking like crazy. And they are afraid — to your point as well, Buck — that if you have a control group, right? If everybody does the same thing, there’s no control group to prove that masks don’t work.

If you have a control group — and that’s in Florida and it’s in Texas and it’s in Tennessee and it’s in many other states with strong Republican governors who are standing up for parental choice — that is a significant attack upon the hegemony of global fear porn insanity which is being driven by the Biden White House.

BUCK: Can I also tell everybody there’s more and more of these stories now that are coming out for people who say, “Oh, I’ll just find a way around some of these vaccine mandates.” We’re talking about masks. They’re arresting people!

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: You could say this is deterrence prosecution, but they’ve arrested people for either trying to sell or even now use those little CDC paper cards. So this is gonna become another real battleground. They’re arresting… This is crazy, folks. They’re arresting people based on stupid interpretations of data that aren’t even… They’re arresting people that have covid antibodies because they won’t get the shot, but they don’t want to bend the knee to the vax. The whole thing’s nuts, Clay.