An Idaho lawmaker denounced the public health officials who are making policy decisions in his community regarding the coronavirus and suggested that listening to them is an “elitist approach” to the pandemic.

Republican state Sen. Steven Thayn, a member of the state legislature’s Education Working Group, supports a bill that would strip the public health districts of their power when it comes to determining restrictions in schools meant to stop the spread of the virus, according to the local NPR affiliate. Instead, they want local school boards to take up this responsibility.