A thing I haven't seen mentioned about Cruz's trip

[Proud liberal 80]

Even if we took him at his word, why is his school age daughters going to Mexico during a pandemic and were they planning on attending school on Monday?

[question everything]

1. And.. how many of their friends enjoy the luxury of leaving the cold and misery behind?

[cwydro]

2. Yup.

Good questions.

[TwilightZone]

3. There have been several threads on a similar topic.

People take their kids out of school for vacation. It's a thing. Countless schools were either closed all week or on remote learning or some of each, and many won't be open by Monday.

That's not the issue. The issue is that he ran off in the middle of a crisis because his wife was cold.

[underpants]

5. Yeah persons of means live differently. He and his wife are both throwing the kids

Under the bus.

[Skraxx]

6. Uhh, During A Pandemic? Unnecessary Travel? Uhh, No, Not Ok, and it IS an Issue, Among Others

[Laelth]

7. Of course, you're right.

But Cruz acts like the vacation didn’t affect his children’s schooling. It did. According to the kids’ school, his kids will have to quarantine all next week or get a negative COVID test, the results of which could take a week or more to arrive.

It galls me that he’s using his children as an excuse for his own selfishness and his utter disregard for the people that he allegedly represents.

-Laelth

[Laelth]

4. They will have to be tested upon their return.

That’s school policy (or so I read earlier today). They’re missing school all next week no matter what.

-Laelth