In Luxembourg: The return of the compulsory mask in schools and high schools demanded
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LUXEMBOURG – A request open for signatures since Friday calls for the return of the mandatory mask and testing for students and teachers in Luxembourg.
The schools of Luxembourg have dropped the mask, and stopped the regular tests. A situation that does not reassure this Luxembourg petitioner. “Wearing a mask was one of the measures that made it possible to protect oneself and others from infection,” he notes. The testing, on the other hand, “made it possible to identify infected students and teachers and to isolate them in order to protect the health of all those involved”. And all this stops while “the future course of the pandemic remains unpredictable”, develop the petitioner, Yves Berna. “It would be better to remain vigilant” and keep these measures until the incidence rate is really low.
According to him, “the number of infected students increased significantly after the abolition of the compulsory mask”. He therefore published a petition to reintroduce this obligation in schools, high schools and other educational structures in Luxembourg. At the same time, the text calls for the return of regular testing of students. His petition is open for signatures from this Friday until June 9th. If it collects at least 4,500 signatures, it will be the subject of a public debate.
Luxembourg like Bhutan?
In all, 17 petitions were opened for signatures on Friday. They relate to various subjects, such as the overtaxation of goods and services imported from Russia and Belarus, the freezing of the revision of construction prices or the indexation of study grants. A ban on smoking (tobacco) while driving is also proposed, as well as the reimbursement of consultations with the psychologist or a cancellation of VAT for consultations… with the veterinarian. A referendum on the index, corrected time amplitudes for private bus drivers and the end of summer time are also on the menu of some of the day’s requests.
Finally, a petitioner proposes to “protect our forests and our nature forever”. With “the real estate crisis, it is not impossible to imagine that a simple solution would be to raze the forests to build buildings there. Let’s protect ourselves against this scenario, ”writes Léo Benkel, who signs the text. He says he is inspired by Bhutan, another small country (larger than Belgium, however), which prefers to calculate the happiness index rather than the growth rate. “In the Constitution of this country, it is written that its territory must be covered by 60% of forests, forever. It would be interesting to consider a similar position for our country”.
(jw)