Matt
Vespa @mvespa1 | Posted: Jan 25, 2021 5:05 PM
What about the kids? I
know the media has been burning the midnight oil with COVID, masks, and other
points not based on science to generate total hysteria. The medical expert
community has more often acted as a mouthpiece for the Democratic National
Committee. We locked down the country. We shuttered the schools. And the virus
ravages the states that have kept the most draconian measures in place. Maybe
that’s because COVID spreads most in households. Keeping us locked up inside is
what’s killing us. It’s not bars, restaurants, or gyms. In retrospect, the mask
fiasco from Dr. Anthony Fauci and others was the first sign that nobody knew
what they were talking about. And when that’s the case, you can destroy
people’s livelihoods for nothing.
Right now, Fauci is
saying we need to double mask. For me, I won’t do it. I already had COVID. No
one is getting it from me. Yet, the one area where the experts were right
centered with schools and how it was safe to reopen them months ago.
The media propped up
stories of these crybaby teachers saying how this would result in mass deaths.
Schools will be sources of super spread, right? Nope. Overall, kids don’t get
it and they don’t spread it. Let's say the vaccine was approved for kids under
the age of 16. These kids would be in the first wave, right? Probably not.
School teachers were not included if that gives any indication. In Fairfax
County, Virginia, teachers complained so much that they were able to jump the
line only to refuse to go back to in-class learning.
Overall, schools that
have reopened have not been sources of major
spikes. The 2020 election also had a lot to do with exaggerating the
risk. Also, teachers’ unions wanted an opportunity to knock the Trump
administration, along with extending their summer vacation. Sorry, teachers who
don’t want to go back and lean on the ‘it’s racist’ crutch should be fired. You
only work nine months out of the year. I’ll just say it: teachers are lazy,
their unions are evil, and this power structure must be demolished in its
entirety.
In Las Vegas, they’re
rushing to re-open schools as the COVID lockdowns have led to a spike in suicides.
These are the COVID deaths the media won’t talk about because it makes all
their allies in the Democratic Party look bad. We have kids as young as nine
years old committing suicide. The New York Times is usually a
target for scrutiny here, but they did good work with this lengthy piece on
Clark County setting things in motion as quickly as possible for students to
return due to the mental health issues that have arisen (via NYT):
Since schools shut their
doors in March, an early-warning system that monitors students’ mental health
episodes has sent more than 3,100 alerts to district officials, raising alarms
about suicidal thoughts, possible self-harm or cries for care. By December, 18
students had taken their own lives.
The spate of student
suicides in and around Las Vegas has pushed the Clark County district, the
nation’s fifth largest, toward bringing students back as quickly as possible.
This month, the school board gave the green light to phase in the return of
some elementary school grades and groups of struggling students even as greater
Las Vegas continues to post huge numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths.
[…]
“When we started to see
the uptick in children taking their lives, we knew it wasn’t just the Covid
numbers we need to look at anymore,” said Jesus Jara, the Clark County
superintendent.
[…]
One student left a note
saying he had nothing to look forward to. The youngest student Dr. Jara has
lost to suicide was 9.
“I feel responsible,” Dr.
Jara said. “They’re all my kids.”
[…]
Over the summer, as
President Donald J. Trump was trying to strong-arm schools into
reopening, Dr. Robert R. Redfield, then the
C.D.C. director, warned that a rise in adolescent suicides would be
one of the “substantial public health negative consequences” of school
closings. Mental health groups and researchers released reports and resources to help schools,
which provide counseling and other intervention services, reach students
virtually. Mental health advocacy groups warned that the student demographics
at the most risk for mental health declines before the pandemic — such as Black children and L.G.B.T.Q. students —
were among those most marginalized by the school closures.
But given the politically
charged atmosphere this summer, many of those warnings were dismissed as scare
tactics. Parents of students who have taken their lives say connecting suicide
to school closings became almost taboo.
A video that Brad Hunstable made in
April, two days after he buried his 12-year-old son, Hayden, in their hometown Aledo,
Texas, went viral after he proclaimed, “My son died from the coronavirus.” But,
he added, “not in the way you think.”
In a recent interview,
Mr. Hunstable spoke of the challenges his son faced during the lockdown — he
missed friends and football, and had become consumed by the video game
Fortnite. He hanged himself four days before his 13th birthday.
“Strong-arm” is a
ridiculous word to use, however. It was safe to reopen schools, but the
political actors in this tale—teachers’ unions—were milking the crisis for all
its worth. More disruption and more pain only increased the odds of Joe Biden
beating Trump. And who do teachers’ unions support nonstop: Democrats.
Now, with Trump gone and
Biden serving as president, the war cry of ‘elect me and I’ll get this virus
under control’ has morphed into ‘we can’t do anything for several
months.’
It’s just another stark
reminder that the Biden COVID agenda is pretty much a carbon copy of Donald
Trump’s plan. In the meantime, the lockdowns continue to dole out tragic
stories like these, pointing to the fact that the lockdown has hurt Americans
more than COVID ever could.
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