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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Uh no. teachers are—to put it simply—scared to die.

There’s a pandemic and if schools hadn’t closed in march, the death toll would have been much higher.

The political part of this is how terribly Trump has handled it for months and months, calling it a hoax, never wearing a mask, pitting states against each other for proper equipment, firing the pandemic team long before this happened, refusing to listen to top health experts.

If teachers had proper PPE and schools could have soap and paper towels, maybe they wouldn’t be so scared, but my kids in McPs —a wealthy county —often don’t even have soap in the bathrooms. How the hell can they keep the virus at bay without the proper equipment? [/quote]

Fear does not equate to facts. The long term negative impact on children is a fact. Teachers were screaming for shutdowns for the fall before schools were provided the opportunity to demonstrate their plan.

Either step up and do the job or find another profession. (See all other open businesses and their employees.) [/quote]

False confidence isn’t a fact anymore than fear is. The fact is, all of the facts are still coming in. Another fact, is that we have someone that is looking at this problem through solely an economic and self-rewarding lens. Which leads to fact number 3, the information we could have been acting on and receiving was delayed because Trump literally dismantled a pandemic response team and took our CDC liaison in China off of her detail, and refused to work with the WHO in the earlier stages. So the fact is that this fear is based on risky and irresponsible actions of a leader that had a clear inability to identify *timely*  solutions through a broader public safety lens. That is partially why many could predict that this administration would be incapable of getting their stuff together in time for school. People would have more confidence if we didn’t feel everyone were operating solely in one interest. Instead, we have to assign the fact that GOP senators married to NYSE heads can short the market in a post corona brief as something that lends confidence or doubt to the facts being presented at hand.

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