Beginning in the summer of 2020, the news media, Democrats, and teachers unions all got together and started spreading the lie that sending children back to school would kill teachers in huge numbers. This was always false and cruel, yet today, some people think it was a good argument.
There’s been a lot of revisionist history about school closures and COVID. The truth is that before we had vaccines, school closures were necessary to protect the adults working in schools and the adults the kids lived with (particularly grandparents and vulnerable parents). pic.twitter.com/KXuHvHZnF2
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) April 28, 2023
It was never a good argument, and it was always grounded in fact-free hysteria.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT THE LOCKDOWNERS NOW REALIZE THEY WERE ALL WRONG
President Joe Biden’s Democratic National Committee helped set the tone, campaigning in the summer of 2020 against reopening schools, which then-President Donald Trump was advocating at the time. Letting children back into the classroom was “risking teachers’ and parents’ lives,” Biden’s DNC said in a July 27 ad.
The teachers unions ramped up the hysteria.
Teachers bring coffins, guillotine while protesting NYC schools reopening plan https://t.co/uVHfFe7JMv pic.twitter.com/Hgoh0UjBmf
— New York Post (@nypost) August 5, 2020
“Children cannot focus on schoolwork if their family members or teachers are in the hospital or dying,” said Frankie Cook, a kindergarten teacher in Brooklyn.
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