GOP-controlled states are taking a carrot-and-stick approach in the face of school districts and local authorities defying Republican governors’ ban on mask mandates.
Meanwhile, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) is offering a carrot to schools that haven’t issued a mask mandate by announcing he’d grant them $163 million in funding from the federal COVID-19 relief package Congress passed earlier this year for playing along.
The Biden administration should nip this in the bud and declare he’ll send funding to schools denied in the program (similar to Florida).
Arizona gov: a kinder, gentler asshole.
Many states, with Republican governors, apparently feel it is perfectly OK to use young children at risk for covid-19 as what can only be described as political hostage shields to further their own professional careers as Republicans. Don’t they realize that a larger subset of these vulnerable children will die as a consequence of their decisions and actions than might do if best medical practice is followed? How do they live with themselves, and why is the press giving them a free ride? Ask them directly why they are holding fast to policies that will lead to unnecessary deaths among what should be this Nation’s most prized members, that is, the young and future citizens. Do they hold life so cheap? How can anyone claim to be a Republican Party member under these circumstances?
I saw elsewhere that it would cause them to lose the funds entirely. Trying to find it.
We should have known all along that the party of so-called “limited government” really meant that the power is limited to the Republican authoritarian in control.
Spending money to cause Covid probably does not meet the criteria for spending the federal grant money.
Shameful mother fucker. He sees the data, he knows the death curve is going up and still is willing to sacrifice children for political expediency.
I hope local school boards tell Ducey to blow it out his porthole.
AZ has so far not contributed to the dramatic 30% rise in the admission of the nation’s children in hospitals, but lets not attribute this to a lack of effort on Ducey’s part. This latest move can only be seen as entrenching his commitment to sicken as many children as he can.
Shorter Dumb Ducey: We’ll bribe you to let kids catch Covid. Won’t matter to them if they lose a parent or two.
Monsters all of them.
Our Pro-Pandemic Governor (PPG) Ducey (wannabe President of the USA) is also doing this:
Meanwhile school districts all over the state are stepping up to defy PPG Ducey whose plan includes: awarding parents $7,000 for each student if their public school required isolating or quarantining due to COVID-19 exposure, or if it mandated masks or gave preferential treatment to vaccinated children. The $7,000 can go for stuff like on line tutoring and private school tuition.
Aha. Provided by campaign contributors?
Possibly off topic.
The more things change the more they change again…
“This disdain for science and scholarship baffled Muslim commentators, who had great respect for Ptolemy and Euclid, for Homer and Aristotle. Some had little doubt what was to blame. Once, wrote the historian al-Masʿūdī, the ancient Greeks and the Romans had allowed the sciences to flourish; then they adopted Christianity. When they did so, they “effaced the signs of [learning], eliminated its traces and destroyed its paths.” Science was defeated by faith. It is almost the precise opposite of the world as we see it today: the fundamentalists were not the Muslims, but the Christians; those whose minds were open, curious and generous were based in the east—and certainly not in Europe. As one author put it, when it came to writing about non-Islamic lands, “we did not enter them [in our book] because we see no use whatsoever in describing them.””
From Peter Frankopan, “The Silk Roads, A new History of the World.”
Welcome back!!! Your wit and insight have been sorely missed!!
I’m not quite dead yet, but I continue to endeavour.
Good to see (and hear from) you again, Ralph!
I don’t care how off topic. You could say anything, and I’d be 
'ing your comment!
You’ve been missed.
I first read that as “From Peter Frampton”…
Apparently, some people really are thinking of the children! (And the teachers and staff, of course.) Not the GQP, however…
