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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsForcing Schools to Open in A Pandemic is Child Abuse
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 hes threatening to withhold funding to those that refusethis while several states are seeing record numbers of new cases.
This is medically irresponsible.
Its partisan politics of the most heinous variety.
Its extortion leveraging the most vulnerable among us.
Its 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 peopleand 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 expertsthan he has formulating any kind of coherent plan to prevent more sickness and death.
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Forcing Schools to Open in A Pandemic is Child Abuse (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Jul 2020
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MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)1. "Forcing Schools to Open in A Pandemic is Child Abuse....."
or MURDER!
fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)2. Plus teacher and staff abuse.
2naSalit
(86,897 posts)3. It is too!
Initech
(100,129 posts)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
(22,204 posts)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?