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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
 I was responding to a post about schools in RED districts!

Lax covid mitigation measures in  schools in those areas likely is contributing to spread  unvaxed, high risk adults the kids and staff interact with out of school. [/quote]

I'm the PP who brought this up, and I was comparing our experience in DC (very blue area, lots of Covid restrictions) with friends who live in a Southern red state. We literally just had dinner with the friends, who are themselves very liberal, pro-mask, pro-science (they are in fact scientists). When the pandemic started, they were terrified of living where they lived because people were very anti-mask and skeptical of Covid. They barely left their house for a year, and did not even do take out or similar things because they were so concerned. Their kids did virtual school from home.

But the second year of the pandemic was very different and they were both actually required to go to work in-person, and their kids schools ended virtual. They were the people yelling about this. And then... nothing. Many people in their community actually did get vaccinated, and their overall vaccination rating is actually pretty close to DCs. Schools opened there full time in person, without issues. Especially at the elementary level, it just does not appear that Covid is a concern there. Teachers who wanted to be vaxed could vaccinate. For a time they even weren't allowed to wear masks because their GOP governor wouldn't allow it (now they are back in masks but likely to drop them before school is out this year). But they just haven't seen the crisis that was predicted. Not in the schools and not in the surrounding areas. There is just no indication that school was a dangerous place for kids OR that kids in school was leading others to get it. I have to assume masks and vaccines helped but it was 100% use either.

It's just very hard to justify the burden on kids and families in blue states when you see these experiences elsewhere. Is Covid still killing people? Yes, it is. But not kids. And not their vaccinated teacher or parents either.

You need to start being wiling to accept some counter evidence against some of your assumptions. Again, I'm liberal. I think Republicans are mostly either cynical or deluded. But increasingly a lot fo the liberals I know are similar, just on different issues. We can't "win" Covid as an issue. It's an apolitical virus. [b]Forcing children to mask in schools indefinitely doesn't sound like a liberal position to me. It sounds like an anti-Trump position.[/b] I think we need to start separating these things out.[/quote]

+1. This, plus it is simply a power play. [/quote]

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