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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMO-GOV: 'They're going to get over it': Parson insists kids must go back to school despite CV19
WASHINGTON Missouri Governor Mike Parson, a Republican, downplayed the risk for children who may contract the coronavirus from classrooms during school reopenings, insisting theyre 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. Theyre at the lowest risk possible. And if they do get COVID-19, which they will and they will when they go to school theyre not going to the hospitals. Theyre not going to have to sit in doctors offices. Theyre going to go home and theyre going to get over it.
We gotta move on, he continued. We cant just let this thing stop us in our tracks.
More:'Science should not stand in the way' of schools reopening, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says
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
(10,266 posts)Because he KNOWS this is bullshit.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)but their parents and grandparents might not.
How are you going to deal with the Covid orphans?
secondwind
(16,903 posts)that may never go away. Who wants their children having life-long health problems?
Withywindle
(9,988 posts)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
(7,947 posts)and their families.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Parsons words reveal his callous indifference to the health and safety of Missourians.
struggle4progress
(118,214 posts)DFW
(54,268 posts)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.