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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's weird to see a contingent of people who is so often going off on personal responsibility when it comes to benefits and brown people suddenly be all up in arms about the free public benefits the government owes them even in the face of a nationwide epidemic -- in part because of their perception that their families in redder states had it better than they did.  I guess bootstraps only take you so far when you need to keep up with your cousins in Texas, but ymmv.

Speaking about cousins in Texas, Texas schools did open but Texas also had a much higher rate of transmission and death than Virginia did -- 177 deaths per 10,000 people vs. Virginia's rate of 130 deaths per 10,000 people.  [url]https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/us-coronavirus-deaths-by-state-july-1.html[/url].  Sure it's not just schools that contributed to that but per that non partisan study the schools opening did contribute to it.  The earlier poster who said she didn't see many people dying of covid around here obviously has not been to South Arlington where families have been forced to continue working during the pandemic and thus have had a greater exposure rate than many of the North Arlington families with white collar jobs who are primarily working from home or working with higher levels of safety protections than many people with lower wage jobs (and/or have larger families where single member exposure can affect a much larger familial group).  It's weird that you guys can compare Arlington unfavorably to other areas re school openings but not see the other grim outcomes to the more [i]laissez faire[/i] practices that are going on in some of those states in terms of mortality.  Not that weird I guess, since you guys are looking just at your own bubble of concerns, and not at the Arlington families less fortunate than you who have lost parents during this epidemic.

In short, I really think you guys are kind of the worst:  a mix of sanctimony and hypocrisy that can't seem to make the obvious connections between the effects that what you are asking for would have on other people in our area.  Nobody in my family died, you say, as a reason why increasing Arlington's mortality rate would be okay by you.  You are saying that your kid's education is more important than a less fortunate kid's parents.  Oh, north arlington, my home, what a huge collection of douchebags we all are, I hope we can all agree on that.[/quote]

Hard agree on all of this, including the important douchebag issue. [/quote]

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