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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

He's desperately trying to differentiate himself from Bowser with this stuff, and it's going to backfire badly.

Did you read the proposed bill and not just what the OP stated? I’m missing where it says he wants to close schools?

Bowser is going to hammer him with this.

Considering a majority of the council has already come out in public supporting the bill, maybe it’s more popular that the DCUM crowd thinks

Four co-sponsors is not an majority. Emergency bills need nine votes to pass. It's an election year. No one is going to risk their jobs by shutting down schools.

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Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

+1 - I can't wait to vote against him in the primary

Interesting. I can't wait to vote for him.

+1 I can’t wait to vote for him either!

He isn’t presenting this bill for school closures…he’s presenting for more transparency and accountability from DCPS and he’s a DCPS parent. I can’t wait until the staff shortage boils over and forcing all you to be home and to take some accountability for your own kids that you decided to have!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

He's desperately trying to differentiate himself from Bowser with this stuff, and it's going to backfire badly.

Bowser is going to hammer him with this.

Considering a majority of the council has already come out in public supporting the bill, maybe it’s more popular that the DCUM crowd thinks

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

+1 - I can't wait to vote against him in the primary

Interesting. I can't wait to vote for him.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

He's desperately trying to differentiate himself from Bowser with this stuff, and it's going to backfire badly.

Bowser is going to hammer him with this.

Considering a majority of the council has already come out in public supporting the bill, maybe it’s more popular that the DCUM crowd thinks

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I support that bill. Finally, some common sense to release pressure off our hospitals - where you could end up TODAY, by slipping on the ice. Surely you want adequate care for your broken hip? Lots of people get heart attacks when shoveling out - surely you don't want them to die because the EMS services are slow getting them into hospital? There were waits of several hours last week from pick-up to hospital bed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

+1 - I can't wait to vote against him in the primary

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

He's desperately trying to differentiate himself from Bowser with this stuff, and it's going to backfire badly.

Bowser is going to hammer him with this.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Couldn’t agree more. People supporting this bill try to present closures as virtuous when really it just makes everything worse. Also, for all the R. White boosters that assured people on this forum that he is not an advocate for closing schools, it didn’t take long at all to see how eager he is to do so.

Anonymous wrote:It makes no sense that closing schools would ease the burden on hospital admissions.

The staff and teachers are vaccinated. Since vaccination became available only like 2.8% of hospitalizations in DC have been vaccinated individuals.

Kids are already at a low risk for hospitalizations.

Closing schools has not been shown to reduce spread anyway.

Closing schools, if anything, will INCREASE the burden on hospitals as hospital staff can't report because they have to stay home with their kids.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I support that bill. Finally, some common sense to release pressure off our hospitals - where you could end up TODAY, by slipping on the ice. Surely you want adequate care for your broken hip? Lots of people get heart attacks when shoveling out - surely you don't want them to die because the EMS services are slow getting them into hospital? There were waits of several hours last week from pick-up to hospital bed.

Okay, then let's close all restaurants, bars, gyms, and other non-essential businesses, rather than SCHOOLS.

YES. The fact that we're having this conversation is stone-cold stupid when schools should have been the last thing to close. It makes absolutely no sense that I can go to Orange Theory in person, sit at a bar, and stand among the sweaty masses at Starbucks but my kid can't go to school. Obviously we should be looking for as many workable solutions as possible, but having the most correct decision off the table entirely is peak idiocy.

I'm the first poster you quoted. I agree, but if elected officials aren't doing their job with closures, then something else needs to give to keep hospitals functioning. The priority is not kids in school, even though it would be so great if it was. The priority at this point is getting standards of care in hospitals to some degree of decent. I fully concur that this is unfair on the kids and parents. But we need healthcare more than anything else. And if you want to go scream at the Mayor, Governors and others for not shutting down bars and restaurants and other businesses when the time was right, then be my guest - they entirely deserve it! They're all think they can weasel out of difficult choices and no one will see through their little plans. Infuriating.

NP. The fundamental problem with your argument is that there is no data to suggest that closing schools helps the hospital situation in any way. NONE. School closures have never shown to make a positive difference in hospital admission numbers.

The second problem is that next to hospitals and grocery stores, nothing in our society is more essential than schools. So we shouldn't even be talking about closing schools at all. We can talk about closing other things, but not the venues where the people who are least at risk from Covid and most vulnerable in so many other ways get their education, which will affect their future and long-term life expectancy. It is pure lunacy and unethical.

Anonymous wrote:They could close everything but schools. ...

Also why close schools but not daycare? Or day off camps? And why close public but not private schools? If it's public health then all should be examined.