WATCH: Biden Chief Of Staff Sides With Teachers’ Unions Over CDC Guidelines Regarding Reopening Schools
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Why are many schools still closed when The Science™ says that it’s safe to reopen them?
The answer to that is, of course, teachers’ unions and other leftwing bullcrap reasons.
Public schools just need more money, apparently. They can’t be expected to educate children unless the ventilation is upgraded, they add more unionized workers to sanitize every surface regularly, and more teachers are hired to handle itty-bitty class sizes.
President* Biden himself said yesterday that reopening schools is “complicated” (no surprise for the husband of a teacher) despite campaigning on reopening schools safely while castigating President Trump’s administration.
Biden said school districts needed to make sure classrooms are “safe and secure for the students, for the teachers, and for the help that is in these schools maintaining the facilities.”
“We need ventilation systems in the schools,” he said. “We need testing for people coming in and out of the classes. We need testing for teachers as well as students, and we need the capacity … to know that … the school is safe and secure for everyone.” That includes ensuring that every school is “thoroughly sanitized, from the lavatories to the hallways,” he said.
He also said that he knows of no school district that has “insisted all those pieces be in place,” though he conceded there could be some.
“The teachers I know want to work,” he said. “They just want to work in a safe environment and as safely as we can make it, and we should be able to open up every school, kindergarten through eighth grade, if we administer these [coronavirus] tests.
Source: Washington Post
In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett on Tuesday, the new White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain, said that public schools can’t reopen until they get more of that sweet, sweet Biden stimulus to fix the problems with public schools. He cites a CDC study of rural Wisconsin schools insisting that class sizes should be reduced significantly and investments into replacing ventilation should be made before reopening schools — but that isn’t the only study that the CDC conducted.
The Wisconsin study wasn’t the only report the CDC published on Tuesday. Another study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of the American Medical Association analyzed data from schools in Mississippi, North Carolina, and Wisconsin found that “the preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring insofar as the type of rapid spread that was frequently observed in congregate living facilities or high-density worksites has not been reported in education settings in schools.”
“As many schools have reopened for in-person instruction in some parts of the US as well as internationally, school-related cases of COVID-19 have been reported, but there has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission,” the report read.
Source: Washington Examiner
Watch as Burnett asks Klain why so many private schools are open while public schools remain closed.
https://youtu.be/igPOTf2HG9s
See that? It’s all about more money going to the schools and not about “The Science™” at all.
How in the hell are you going to have those massive urban schools limit the students to a dozen or fewer per classroom?! That’s just not feasible.
This is in line with the insane demands of teachers’ unions that seem to be more concerned with keeping their members out of the physical classroom than getting them back to work as usual. They don’t seem to give a damn about the students who are suffering from mental health issues related to lockdowns and the ones that are not learning much in the virtual classrooms.
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The CDC guidelines for reopening schools make no mention of reducing class sizes, but only talks about the risk of spread and insists that schools should reopen for in-person learning as soon as possible.
Check it out:
Look, I’m no public health expert here, but it seems to me that study after study showing that schools are safe and that children aren’t a significant vector of spread means that we should
But hey, let’s check in with someone who does know a thing or two about public health…
Pradheep Shankar posted an epic thread on Twitter all about this very video. Shankar’s Twitter bio reads, “Radiologist and Public Health Policy, CEO of the Neoavatara Foundation, Occasional contributor to National Review, Ricochet, and American Spectator.”
Again, don’t tell me @WHCOS is science based.
He isn’t. This is all about partisanship. Not science. https://t.co/mB0gJHBIlP
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
Lets get into the science of this, using…Biden’s own CDC, shall we?
Is ANYTHING that @WHCOS said science based?https://t.co/Q2DS15meGf
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
@NYGovCuomo, @GavinNewsom and @GovPritzker all are opening restaurants in a couple weeks…
…and schools are still mostly closed.
And has Biden called them out? NOPE.
So, strike one for Dems.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
“The incidence of infection was lower in schools than in the community at large, the scientists found. During 13 weeks in the fall of 2020, there were 191 infections among staff and students; only seven resulted from in-school transmission, according to the study.”
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
No instances of child-to adult transmission of SARS-CoV-2 were reported within schools.
CONCLUSIONS: In the first 9 weeks of in-person instruction in NC schools, we found
extremely limited within-school secondary transmission of SARS-CoV-2, as determined by
contact tracing.— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
Where have we seen outbreaks with schools?
1. Israel, where they didnt use masks or tracing.
2. Wrestling tournament in Florida (I kid you not, insane).That…is about it.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
This study examined a bunch of rural Wisconsin schools during that states higher levels of infection. So there was active community Spread.
What special protection did the schools use?
Masks.
That’s it.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
Now remember, this study WAS PUBLISHED UNDER BIDEN’S OWN CDC.
It was federally funded, and the scientists are all well renown.
And as far as I can tell, the studies were well done.
— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
So, when people tell you the following, you know they are lying to you:
1. Schools cannot be opened in high infected areas.
2. Schools cannot be safely opened without massive spending.
3. Schools cannot safely protect teachers without special protections.— Pradheep J. Shanker (@Neoavatara) January 27, 2021
See that? It’s all B.S. to kowtow to teachers’ unions.
Great Job, everyone. Great job.
