MO-GOV: 'They're going to get over it': Parson insists kids must go back to school despite CV19

[RandySF]

WASHINGTON – Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, downplayed the risk for children who may contract the coronavirus from classrooms during school reopenings, insisting “they’re going to get over it.”

“These kids have got to get back to school,” Parson said in an interview Friday with radio host Marc Cox on KFTK. “They’re at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will — and they will when they go to school — they’re not going to the hospitals. They’re not going to have to sit in doctor’s offices. They’re going to go home and they’re going to get over it.”

“We gotta move on,” he continued. “We can’t just let this thing stop us in our tracks.”

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His comments come during a nationwide debate over school reopenings as the pandemic continues to rage across the United States.



https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/20/missouri-gov-mike-parson-says-kids-get-over-covid-19/5474557002/

[Volaris]

1. If so much as one kid in his state ends up in a coffin from covid, I want him PROSECUTED.

Because he KNOWS this is bullshit.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. If they catch it, it may not be so easy to get over it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Well, okay. Maybe the kids will get over it,

but their parents and grandparents might not.

How are you going to deal with the Covid orphans?

[secondwind]

4. I understand that Covid leaves life-long health issues

that may never go away. Who wants their children having life-long health problems?

[Withywindle]

5. They're going to go home and pass the virus to everyone they come in contact with

Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, etc.

Some of THOSE people will die. Of the seven people who died in that cluster linked to the wedding in Maine, NONE of the dead even went to the wedding. They were infected by people who did.

[dawg day]

6. And teachers and school staff...

and their families.

[struggle4progress]

8. "Those people really don't make enough money to matter!"

[Cracklin Charlie]

10. This is the comment!

Parson’s words reveal his callous indifference to the health and safety of Missourians.

[struggle4progress]

7. "Just tell the kids they're helping Granny die for the sake of the economy!"

[DFW]

9. It's not just the schoolkids

It's also their parents, their siblings, and anyone with whom those people come in contact.

Parson should be made PERSONALLY liable for the medical expenses of anyone who gets Covid-19 as a result of his action, and charged with murder for EVERY death that results. He should be made aware of the certainty of these charges NOW, and then see if he hasn't changed his mind any.