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ugh so now they are painting sending kids back to school as evil because trump admin wants it. yet so did liberal europe!
ugh so now they are painting sending kids back to school as evil because trump admin wants it. yet so did liberal europe!
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In “liberal” Europe, countries got infection rates down before they reopened schools. Eventually, infection rates went up again after reopening (which was expected). In the US, conservative government(s) prevented all measures to curb infections and want to reopen anyway.
When the conservatives pushing schools to open are also the people who downplay the seriousness of the virus, it's easy to see how "open schools" became associated with anti masking, covid-denying, etc. Especially when people are angry at teachers who seem to be legitimately scared after what they witnessed last spring. If any of them die, the conservatives will say, "Well did they have pre-existing conditions/comorbidities?"
I personally don't think teachers suddenly just don't care about teaching kids for absolutely no reason at all or because they're selfish jerks. And when the White House goes against what the CDC says, yeah, you start to say, "the only person looking after me is me." I mean, that's why most people say they're not going to take the vaccine if Trump says it's ok, lol. Would any of you? Always consider the source.
It is crazy that opening schools has been associated as a "conservative" thing. What happened to prioritizing kids and education? How can you get more progressive than that?
This article in the progressive New Yorker magazine is very clear that the teachers did not want to do anything that the White House was advocating, regardless of the effect on students.
The Students Left Behind by Remote Learning | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2020/10/0
Oct 5, 2020 - This article is a collaboration between The New Yorker and ProPublica. Shemar, a twelve-year-old from East Baltimore, is good at math, and ...
I think that's your spin. The facts are that the Trump campaign pressured the CDC about school reopenings. Outside pressure is evil. The fact that some schools are in areas that are ready to safely reopen and some are not is not empirically political.
Who is "they"?