TONIGHT: Is it time to rollback school mask mandates?
PLUS: We’ll discuss local and statewide efforts to regulate the manufacture and sale of ghost guns, untraceable firearms that are bought online and assembled in the home.
AND: We’ll hear from artist Eric Staller, creator of the Bubbleboat, a mobile dome of lights that you may have seen cruising around the Bay.
Guests:
Segment A
Dr. Jeanne Noble, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine; Director of COVID-19 Response for the UCSF Parnassus Emergency Department; co-founder of "Children, COVID and the Urgency of Normal” advocacy toolkit and webinar
Segment B
Abené Clayton, reporter with The Guardian’s Guns and Lies in America project
David Pucino, senior staff attorney at Giffords Law Center To Prevent Gun Violence
Segment C
Eric Staller, creator of the Bubbleboat
Hosts: Ethan Elkind and Joseph Pace
Producers: Kendra Klang and Wendy Holcombe
Resources:
Segment A
Letter and Petition:Post-Omicron Pivot for California Public Schools
The Atlantic opinion piece:The Case Against Masks at School
Advocacy Toolkit and Webinar:Children, COVID, and the Urgency of Normal
Mother Jones: These Doctors Wanted to Get Schools Back to Normal. Their Botched Effort May Backfire.
Segment B
Giffords: California Gun Laws
The Guardian: Ordered online, assembled at home: the deadly toll of California’s ‘ghost guns’
The Guardian: California scrambles to ban ‘ghost guns’ as untraceable weapons’ popularity soars
The Mercury News: Oakland joins growing list of California cities to ban ghost guns
The Oaklandside: 2021 is Oakland’s deadliest year since 2006
The San Francisco Chronicle: Newsom’s push to use Texas abortion law tactics on firearms faces hurdle with ‘ghost guns’