Forcing Schools to Open in A Pandemic is Child Abuse

[Nevilledog]

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/07/08/forcing-schools-to-open-in-a-pandemic-is-child-abuse/


The President wants schools open in the Fall and he’s threatening to withhold funding to those that refuse—this while several states are seeing record numbers of new cases.

This is medically irresponsible.
It’s partisan politics of the most heinous variety.
It’s extortion leveraging the most vulnerable among us.

It’s also child abuse.

Willfully endangering the welfare of a child is almost universally agreed upon as the greatest of human transgressions, and yet this is the certain crime of an Administration who want to forcefully send millions of children, teachers, administrators, and support staff into close proximity to one another, in the throes of a pandemic that has as of this date killed 132,000 people—and for which there is no treatment and no vaccine.

The United States has been the victim of a woefully underprepared Federal response, a rushed reopening by Republican governors, a rudderless Administration, and the wild mood swings of a President who has spent more time planning vanity rallies and publicly criticizing his own medical experts—than he has formulating any kind of coherent plan to prevent more sickness and death.

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. "Forcing Schools to Open in A Pandemic is Child Abuse....."

or MURDER!

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. Plus teacher and staff abuse.

[2naSalit]

3. It is too!

[Initech]

4. This could go horribly wrong, very quickly.

And once that beast has been let out of the cage, there may be no putting it back in.

[Bayard]

5. If he wanted to kill off the rest of the population,

That's a good way to do it. Whole families infected, and everyone they interact with.

So now, who would benefit from that? I'm reminded of the Independence Day movie, where the aliens go from planet to planet, exterminating the populace, then consuming their resources.

Over-populated China, or greedy Russia? Or aliens?