"Back To School" - Powerful Ad!

[kpete]

“My father died today, and it was me who killed him.” 😢 This trauma is coming.

Link to tweet

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[Laelth]

1. Yikes! That's a serious gut-punch.

Who’s responsible for that?



-Laelth

[JHB]

20. "The Protest Films"

Not seen here, but visible on Twitter

[aggiesal]

22. The Protest Films ...

If you hover your mouse pointer over "The Protest" black circle in the upper left hand corner, a subscription link appears.

[JHB]

47. A link for a YouTube subscription to the channel, to be specific

Not everybody reading threads here will know what was being referred to.

[crickets]

26. Gut punch, indeed. Every scenario in the ad was all too realistic and likely to happen.

COVID will spread through schools. There's no way around it,no matter how 'careful' people are. Teachers will get the virus and die, as will children, as will members of their families. It's madness.

[Laelth]

31. Schools are germ factories.

I can not comprehend how any person could think that it’s a good idea to reopen them in the middle of a pandemic.



-Laelth

[leftieNanner]

39. Says every parent in history

who has had to deal with head lice.

Damn, but I never did so much laundry in one day!

[tblue37]

53. I did home daycare for 18 years while my kids were still kids. Helped raise 37 children.

I never had a case of head lice. I never understood how I managed to escape that scourge!

[leftieNanner]

55. My older daughter was doing her homework at the kitchen table

Scratched her head - "Ooh Mommy! There's a bug on my paper!"

AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

You are very fortunate.

Katie didn't mind so much. She sat in front of the TV and watched Disney movies all day while I combed her hair with a nit comb dunked in vinegar.
Younger daughter didn't catch it.

[Wounded Bear]

2. Hard to watch...powerful...

if only Trump and his minions had the capacity to feel empathy.

[Nature Man]

3. I thought peanut butter sandwiches

were verboten in schools?

[lunasun]

5. Yeah they kept mentioning that and I was like huh? Where is that happening ?

[StarfishSaver]

6. Seriously? That's your first reaction to this ad?

[Nature Man]

7. It's possible to have more than one reaction

just because I mentioned one doesn't mean I didn't have others.

Why would you assume that was my FIRST reaction?

[StarfishSaver]

8. You may have had more than one reaction, but that's only the reaction you decided to share

[Nature Man]

9. What makes you think I owe you anything?

[StarfishSaver]

14. Oooh - is somebody having a bad day?

Or is this just business as usual?

[StarryNite]

29. My grandson has a peanut allergy

yet I wasn't phased by the mention of peanut butter in this powerful ad.

[StarfishSaver]

35. I don't think the poster was really concerned about it either

There was a different purpose

[onethatcares]

10. good thing

they haven't banned pizza on this site. How do you like yours?

[Nature Man]

12. Give it a rest

[treestar]

64. Now someone should be banned for

merely noticing what looks like a mistake in this ad? Why so sensitive?

[tblue37]

54. I bet a lot of us who have had kids in school had a reflexive "Whoah! Wait!" reaction to that. nt

[Cha]

57. I didn't know they had banned peanut butter sands at

schools.

I guess because some kids can be deathly allergic and they don't want to take chances.

[tblue37]

61. 31 years ago a kindergartener died in school here because she was accidentally exposed to peanut

butter. It does happen.

[Cha]

62. Poor thing

[treestar]

63. Always attacking the poster and not the issue

And this poster never had a chance. I do not know why you get away with it.

[Niagara]

17. I have worked both in the cafeterias and kitchens of a public school.

It used to be when the student was in the negative for school lunch payment, they were served peanut butter sandwiches. Now with awareness of peanut allergies, they are served with cheese slices sandwiches (along with veggie, fruit, milk), which they are still charged for.



In the school system that I worked at, the elementary children with peanut allergies sat at the peanut-free table. We had to use separate cleaning towels, buckets of soap, and buckets of sanitizer to clean the peanut-free tables. The other students who brought peanut butter sandwiches from home had their own tables to sit at.


I can't speak for all schools, but only the one that I worked at.

[Nature Man]

18. Thank you for the insight

My experience with schools was decades ago. But I still love me a good peanut butter sandwich.

[Niagara]

19. You're very welcome.

Things change over the years and every school system is different.

[StarryNite]

30. I practically grew up on peanut butter.

My grandson has a peanut allergy. I haven't touched the stuff since we found out. And truthfully, it's not very healthy for anyone.

[Niagara]

48. I grew up on peanut butter as well.

I'm well behaved with my daily diet intake, with the exception of chocolate and peanut butter. I have no shame when it comes down to these two items. I haven't bought peanut butter in a long time because I have no self-control.

[StarryNite]

59. I gave up peanut butter and replaced it with eating twice as much chocolate.

[Alliepoo]

27. My grandkids school

Has a table designated for kiddos to sit that have pb in their lunch bags. That way they can stay separate from the kiddos that have allergies.

[Bettie]

46. Our schools allow them

but we can also still take in homemade stuff too. I hear that's forbidden in some schools too.

[H2O Man]

4. Recommended.

[Niagara]

11. This powerful ad needs to aired relentlessly.

K&R

[NurseJackie]

13. Honestly... it was too long. It would have been better as a series of three or four ads.

Honestly... it was too long. It would have been better as a series of three or four ads. Each one with a new (but shorter) letter to "Mr. President".

[Nature Man]

15. You aren't displaying the requisite piety

/sarcasm

PEANUT BUTTER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS!!!!!1111

[jaxexpat]

23. It's not about the peanut butter.

It's about those thin slices of peppermint candy placed neatly on the peanut butter that they CALLED jelly. What kind of world do we live in? It's not jelly. That little girl was delusional. Probably from grief.....or peppermint poisoning.

[JustBidenOurTime]

34. Your post #12 with time stamp 9:59 AM says: "Give it a rest."

Apparently to you that means 4 minutes is all that's required to "give it a rest".

[Mossfern]

42. Really?

Please get over it.
I was perplexed by the peanut butter sandwich too. I considered mentioning it and I have no agenda.
Maybe the ad was aimed at us older folk who grew up on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch.

[smirkymonkey]

60. There are a lot more children these days, like my niece, who will have a life threatening

anaphylactic reaction if she gets even the tiniest bit of peanuts or peanut butter in her system. If she isn't given her EpiPen and medical attention soon enough she could die from it. I don't remember anyone with peanut allergies when I was growing up, but it's much more common now.

She also has asthma, so if she were to come down with the virus she would also be at very high risk. I worry about her, and all my nieces and nephews. And my siblings and parents, even though my parents live hours away from them all, the holidays are going to be nerve-wracking.

[BlueJac]

21. K&R

Powerful message

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

24. I just wish they wouldn't call this the Plague.

It's not the Plague.

And in all honesty, it feels overwrought.

Yeah, I'll probably get flamed, but that's my response. Although I'll admit I didn't tune into the peanut butter issue. You need to infer that the reason she's bringing a sandwich to school every day is that the food services have shut down, possibly because the cafeteria ladies are either refusing to go in, or they've all gotten sick themselves.

[RainCaster]

28. It's the Trump Plague

By January of '21, his incompetence will have killed over 300,000 Americans. He needs to own this, along with the rest of the GOP.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

44. Nonetheless, it's very, very misleading to call it Plague.

Even the Trump Plague. As badly as Trump is screwing this up, we are hardly the only country battling Covid-19. And even though at this point we have the highest raw numbers of deaths, we are only in 9th place when it comes to deaths per million. Yes, I know that will go up, but Trump didn't cause this virus.

In short, it's a virus, not a plague. Two very, very different things.

[RainCaster]

51. Perhaps mildly misleading I will conceed

A quick look at online dictionaries shows:
American Heritage Dictionary: A highly infectious, usually fatal, epidemic disease; a pestilence.
Dictionary.com: Plague definition, an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
Cambridge English Dictionary: to cause worry, pain, or difficulty to someone or something over a period of time
Those are rather generic descriptions, certainly not what you are intimating.

To more pertinent dictionaries:
Medical Dictionary: is a serious, potentially life-threatening infectious disease that is usually transmitted to humans by the bites of rodent fleas. It was one of the scourges of early human history. There are three major forms of the disease: bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic.
I suspect this is the one you focusing on. Commonly known as the "Black Plague", the common name being "The Plague". Yeah, I can see that being correct.

Bible Dictionary: is applied, like pestilence, to such sudden outbursts of disease as are regarded in the light of divine visitations.
Posted here to show another viewpoint.

[treestar]

66. Agree; it's also not as deadly

as the plague.

[cwydro]

33. No, she mentions that her dad makes the sandwiches like her mom used to - implying mom has died.

My mom always made my lunches because I hated cafeteria food.

The sandwich thing is kind of a symbol for the whole story.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

45. Yes, I did get that.

And it definitely is a symbol for the whole story.

[treestar]

65. I agree it was overwrought

Though such things could occur, but would it really be on a massive scale where one student would suffer that many losses - it did come out that it is rare for those without symptoms to spread the disease, and for younger people to die of it.

Not that I'm in favor of school opening or that Dotard is doing anything right. But exaggeration don't help a claim.

[gibraltar72]

25. Summbitch.

[cwydro]

32. Wow.

Hard to watch.

[bobbieinok]

36. Incredibly powerful ad! Will the people who need to see it actually see it?

[world wide wally]

37. A tear jerker...and rightfully so

[flying_wahini]

38. Seems a little too maudlin and sappy.

[nevergiveup]

40. I totally agree.

Also too long.

[peggysue2]

41. Wow!

That's a killer ad. Enough to make me tear up.

Dear Mr. President: Follow your niece's suggestion:

Resign.

You're in over your head. And you're killing us.

[ashredux]

43. This is the most powerful, emotional ad I have seen so far

It needs to come with a warning label. If you are emotionally fragile at this time do not watch

[Talitha]

49. Using the voice of a child - VERY powerful!

[malaise]

50. Wow

That's powerful - he is going to pay

[tblue37]

52. Wow! K&R for visibility. nt

[Cha]

56. Someone has a clear vision of how

it could go.. if schools followed the Treasonous asshole's urgings.

[Heartstrings]

58. Chilling....I have goosebumps.

😢