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Showing Original Post only (View all)GOP candidate wants kids back in school just like in the 'pre vaccine era' [View all]
By Dan Desai Martin -May 13, 2020 5:33 PM
Former Rep. Claudia Tenney is demanding that schools reopen in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Republican congressional candidate has suggested that children go back to school during the coronavirus pandemic based on the fact that children attended school before vaccines were invented.
"Children have a greater ability to develop immunities to this virus based on the evidence we have so far," Claudia Tenney, a former member of Congress who is running for the seat she held in New York's 22nd Congressional District, tweeted on Tuesday. "A cautious approach to returning to school is essential. Children attended school in the pre vaccine era for over a century."
Tenney's suggestion ignores data on mortality rates prior to the invention of vaccines and on the effectiveness of vaccines, as well as warnings from the nation's top infectious disease expert.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notes, with regard to the incidence of various infectious diseases before vaccines were available, that hundreds died from measles every year; 15,000 Americans died of diphtheria in 1921 alone; and in 1964-1965, 2,000 babies died of rubella during an epidemic that infected 12.5 million people in the United States.
https://americanindependent.com/claudia-tenney-coronavirus-children-schools-vaccines-gop-congress-covid-19/
Some in the media should be demanding and asking if this .......... ( fill in the blank) has any medical records that show she did not get vaccines when she had to go into public school or private one for that matter.............to be able to protect the other children that she was running around with.................
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GOP candidate wants kids back in school just like in the 'pre vaccine era' [View all]
turbinetree
May 2020
OP
Thank you! I work in a school. Schools are not made for physical distancing.
OrlandoDem2
May 2020
#2
Besides, kids get cv-19, too, and can suffer terrible consequences & even death.
tblue37
May 2020
#11
Yes. Please contact your school board, state legislators, and governor about safety for ALL.
OrlandoDem2
May 2020
#14
There's a about a 4% chance of death if you are in the older population,
Zing Zing Zingbah
May 2020
#27
"Children attended school in the pre vaccine era for over a century."
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#3
If one of those dead kids was yours, would you still be OK with the fact
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#22
You can't make decisions for large amounts of people in such a personal way
Zing Zing Zingbah
May 2020
#33
Tell that to the parents of a child who died of covid-19 or Kawasaki's syndrome
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#36
My mother was a nurse in those days. She told us about the iron lungs
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#29
And I'm betting he considers himself in the "Right To Life" crowd. n/t
Liberal In Texas
May 2020
#24
Sure, so the kids should just go without an education indefinitely then.
Zing Zing Zingbah
May 2020
#19
The odds might be good that they won't die, but the odds aren't so good
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#28
Most families? In many, many families, especially immigrants and low-income people,
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#35
Now that's a pose straight from some Volk und Vaterland propaganda poster
struggle4progress
May 2020
#12
For those who feel that way, I'd ask them whether they'd sacrifice their own kid
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#32
So why are we even bothering with doctors or hospitals or medicines at all?
The Velveteen Ocelot
May 2020
#46
This vile monster needs to spend some time working at Boston Children's Hospital.
GoCubsGo
May 2020
#30