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Personally, I consider that politicians should be overt about this. For example "The science is telling us that schools are a principle path of transmission fo
by pbhjpbhj 6y ago
Personally, I consider that politicians should be overt about this.
For example "The science is telling us that schools are a principle path of transmission for flu-like diseases, but we want to keep schools open to keep people in work and maintain our economic system". Rather than pretending that it was a big surprise that schools were a principle route of transmission, as one example.
Of course people will vote for politicians who do insane things as long as those politicians don't tell people about it, or manipulate the news cycle to hide their idiocy, so ...
- monksy 6y agoSomething to note: Before the CDC said that kids were a concern about spread earlier this year. The Chicago Mayor (Lightfoot) was trying to force kids back into school again. She tried fighting with the Chicago Teachers Union to do this. (Lied about mitigations in schools, the city doctor "magically announced it's safe in schools", etc) There was the Chicago Public Schools head literally posting a thing that "a kid in the school said baseball games are much better in person than on the tv" and she used it for justification to support inschool teaching. Tweet: https://twitter.com/janicejackson/status/1350222205553156100?lang=de https://twitter.com/janicejackson/status/1350222205553156100... This is the elected officials.