Hong Kong closed its entire school system yesterday, after 38 of the 66 new cases of COVID-19 were identified among students and parents.
Yesterday we reported 59,880 new cases, yet the White House and any impotently raging, scientifically illiterate buffoons who still take their word as anything other than deliberate perversity are still pushing for schools to open in the fall.
Don't let anyone tell you this is about education.
American scores consistently ranks among the lowest in the developed world for math and science.
American scores consistently ranks among the lowest in the developed world for math and science.
Nor is it about a concern for the emotional or social welfare of those children; if it were we'd give them healthcare.
We'd make sure they were fed.
We'd invest in programs that help them develop into healthy, happy adults.
We'd make sure they were fed.
We'd invest in programs that help them develop into healthy, happy adults.
It is pure, perhaps-uniquely American stupidity.
It is stubbornness for the sake of itself.
It is a grand protest against nothing.
And it will cost lives.
It is stubbornness for the sake of itself.
It is a grand protest against nothing.
And it will cost lives.
BUT HEY, look at it this way: WE'LL WIN! BECAUSE FREEDOM. THEY CAN'T DEFEAT US WITH THEIR...epidemiology and reason. Nope. Because we are AMERICANS.
So what if your child's English teacher lives with his immunocompromised mother? WE ARE AMERICANS.
So what if your child's English teacher lives with his immunocompromised mother? WE ARE AMERICANS.
So what if 64 million of us live in multi-generational households? WE ARE AMERICANS.
So what if everything from theoretical models to the evidence before our fucking eyes points to this being an utterly catastrophic idea? WE Are Americans.
And we will die for the privilege. 🇺🇸
So what if everything from theoretical models to the evidence before our fucking eyes points to this being an utterly catastrophic idea? WE Are Americans.
And we will die for the privilege. 🇺🇸
