Well, to be honest I’d have rather picked one of the many factual, documented instances of ongoing irrational behavior we’re prone to. But they’re so antagonistic about it, as if acknowledging the virus is deeply offensive to them, like insulting Muhammad is for a Muslim.
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“Hooray for Christian Social Darwinists! Yeah, that’s what I was taught after Critical Race Theory was banned.” These are some serious f-ed up fascist policies if there ever was one. “You die if you were meant to die!” as policy is basically complete abrogation of protecting students and their families, an utter abandonment of what good leadership used to mean, and morally and ethically bankrupt in the most anti-intellectual way imaginable. That these fools want to force anyone to infect their kids is a testament to how little the actually care about anything else than forcing others to kowtow to their lack of ideals or caring. “It’s better for the kids to socialize!” doesn’t ring true for sexually transmitted disease… so why is it suddenly okay for a virus that kills 1-3% of the populace outright?
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You’re right. I’ll qualify.
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I just don’t understand this at all. What kind of parent knowingly exposes their child to the possibility of longterm damage to their lungs or brain damage? All to own the libs?
I don’t have children, but I report on my local school district. I believe kids can and should go back to school, but it can be done safely.
In my area they had hybrid learning all year - cases were low because masks were mandatory. And even the small kids had no problem wearing masks. This stupidity is criminal.
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They are selling these t-shirts with “Moron” on them to show the “Socialist Left”.
OPPOSE THE MORONIC MASK MANDATE
WITH THIS EXCLUSIVE T-SHIRT!
Nancy Pelosi JUST CALLED Kevin McCarthy a “moron” for opposing the mask mandate. You’re a top patriot and HE NEEDS YOU to get this t-shirt to oppose HER & the Radical Socialist Left.
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They are like toddlers that are in the middle of a screaming tantrum.
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If they want to self-identify as morons I have no problem with that.
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This piece underscores why I am so thankful that the crazy constituency in my own community is small and rightfully slapped down by our decision makers and health authorities. I cannot even imagine how I would respond if the school my kids go to was this reckless with respect to mitigation measures (and my kids are all old enough to have the benefit of being vaccinated).
What kind of education are these kids getting? Are they learning anything about scientific principles? How empirical research is always superior to anecdotal testimony?
I can understand that the schools have no control over parental behaviours/beliefs. But how vacuous does a school principal’s sense of integrity have to be to not stand firm and demand that science inform any decision about school openings.
I just want to scream at each and every one of them “You have one fucking job, keep the kids safe! And yet you are welcoming a mass murderer into your halls. May you rot in Hell.”
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Biden just started presser. He opened with school masking
Now he’s pivoting to pharmacy costs. @kelaine
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“People are going to get sick. Some people are going to have to go to the hospital. Some people might tragically pass, but the best way through it is to literally allow it to take its course.”
This kind of thinking pisses me off to no end. The “some people” they’re referring to are people they don’t know and don’t care about because they can’t fathom that they or their loved ones might be “some people.” Their cruelty knows no bounds, but I guess that’s because “the cruelty is the point.”
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There are so many red flags in the article that say “if you send your kids to our school, they will get COVID”
The same day I sent my email to the district, screengrabs of a message to parents at Cobb County’s King Springs Elementary School, near my daughters’ now-former school, began circulating on social media and in my parent text groups. The message concerned the school’s open house three days earlier. Up top it said in bold red: “Covid-19 Low Risk Letter.”
“Good Evening Everyone,” it read. “We are super excited to get this school year started! Following our wonderful Sneak A Peek on Thursday, we’ve been notified that several families have positive cases of Covid and attended our event. Since this was a fluid event with people mingling throughout the building, we thought it best to send a low risk letter to all families.”
This one is particularly insane. This is not a “low risk” situation, its a potential superspreader event. Everyone who attended that event should quarantine and get tested.
On Aug. 6, an alert popped up. A mom wanted us to know that her kindergartner, whose sibling is in the classroom where my second-grader would have been, tested positive. She said she doubted the school would notify us.
The next morning, another mother confirmed that she herself had tested positive; her kids were negative so far.
The day after, another family’s three-year-old tested positive. Their school-aged child remained negative.
That night, a fourth mother’s friend was rounding out a 24-hour hospital stay with her kindergartner who’d tested positive. So had multiple classmates.
“If you have a little one in that class,” she wrote, “I suggest you get them tested.”
This is clear evidence that COVID is spreading more or less uncontrolled in the school.
GA and this school in particular are de facto implementing an “everyone gets infected” policy.
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It is unclear whether the berserker warriors wore bear and wolf skins into battle or fought bare-chested ( i.e. , without byrnies or mail shirts; tapestries and other sources represent both possibilities.
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My kids have pulled their grade schoolers out. We figure it will take about 3 weeks for the change to happen. Our county average infection rate has doubled in the last week and yesterday was about 3 times higher.
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Apologies in advance for the length of this rant, but you all are part of my safe space, so here goes:
I have a Facebook acquaintance who is super-religious. She home schools all her kids for a variety of reasons, most of which seem to revolve around her desire to be free enough to do whatever. Her kids are truly good kids, and hard workers on their year-old equestrian facility. She generally tries to keep politics out of her feed, despite her support for Trump and all things right-wing.
I, on the other hand, consider myself to be a spiritual person (but, tongue-in-cheek, call myself a Flaming Socialist Pagan, which also happens to be pretty true). I, too, try to keep my feed free of politics, and confine it to a couple of groups of like-minded souls. However, I am f’ing sick and tired of anti-vax/anti-mask folks continuing to choose to be variant vectors, and the hell with the rest of humanity, including the medically vulnerable and children. I am particularly incensed by the self-righteous smugness of the “religious” and their willingness to let others suffer and die, so they can maintain their smug self-righteousness. So, I posted a couple of well-written, authoritative articles to my main feed.
This morning, she posted this: “…Wearing a mask or not wearing a mask, being vaccinated or not being vaccinated does not make you morally superior…you do not love Jesus more or less by your approach to Covid. Christians are obligated to love one another as Jesus loved. He did not wear a face mask or refuse to wear one. He did not get vaccinated or refuse to get vaccinated.”
To me, this willful stupidity encompasses everything about the religious right that I now despise with every fiber of my being. Just presuming that Jesus existed, he wouldn’t have worn a mask or been vaccinated, because the science did not exist in His day to provide them as options. The admonition to “Love others as yourself” presumes that you want the best for yourself. You want protection for yourself. Therefore, you “should” want the best/protection for others. Love, and the Golden Rule, presume that you will give to others what you hope they would provide to you, particularly in an hour of need.
Of course, I have blocked her. I won’t unfriend her, because my daughter works for her part-time (for reasons that override my personal disgust). This woman is not the only one; just the least self-aware. But Heaven will certainly need to help her if she exposes my daughter and two year old granddaughter to COVID. 
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AGAIN. Why would you put your children at risk if others are just ‘guessing’???
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Hey! Great idea - manage the response to this new wave by basically saying -
"Let’s pretend we’re playing THE HUNGER GAMES !!" - It’ll be fun! and foster that competitive spirit!
“You have another group in this county and in this country that fundamentally believe that this virus has to run its course. And they’re not saying it out loud, but what I’m hearing between the lines is: ‘People are going to get sick. Some people are going to have to go to the hospital. Some people might tragically pass, but the best way through it is to literally allow it to take its course.’”
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It is maddening and sickening.
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“You die if you were meant to die!”
That is Pre-destination. For christians, it is heresy.
But then the self-identified morons wouldn’t understand what that means.
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Cognitive dissonance theory explains most of what we’re seeing. They have made a deep investment in TFG and in a tribal identity centered on aggressive, even violent anti-expertise ignorance and the populist fallacy of equality of opinion. A deep investment, of time, money, energy, identity, and even their own lives. When confronted with disconfirmatory information, they cannot reverse their position without, in a very real sense, unmaking themselves and detaching from their social web, particularly given the centrality of hatred of us to their group identity and the severing of all possible social paths back into the society of the more or less sane.
And, of course, all of this is shot through with the deep racism that has always been at the core of American conservativism.
So their response to information that disconfirms their beliefs is to redouble the intensity of their beliefs and become aggressive in demanding that others adhere to it. Even in the face of death, of dead and dying children of people who look and act just like them. The more dire the disconfirmatory information, the brighter the pathological intensity of their beliefs burn.
They’re all just like the cultists in the classic 1950’s study of cognitive dissonance, “When Prophecy Fails.” but no one ever expected to see it on such a massive scale.
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Yeah, because the dude who ran around healing the sick would’ve totally been against minor inconveniences to keep people from getting sick in the first place. What a fool!
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