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Saturday, July 18, 2020

Wishing Doesn’t Make it So | Live Long and Prosper

Wishing Doesn’t Make it So | Live Long and Prosper

Wishing Doesn’t Make it So




UPDATE: Link at the end of the post…
America’s schools will start to open in a few weeks…some as early as the beginning of August…some after Labor Day. With this small window of time to plan, the unhinged President and his unqualified Secretary of Education demand that
…kids need to be back in school, and that school leaders across the country need to be making plans to do just that.
STATES OPENED TOO EARLY
When the President called for states to reopen he didn’t do it because of any medical or scientific reason. He didn’t insist that the states follow the CDC guidance on reopening because we happen to be in the middle of a deadly pandemic. Pundits have suggested that he is more interested in getting the economy running again than in keeping people safe. A good economy, it is reasoned, will help the President’s reelection campaign.
The point is that we should have solved problems associated with coronavirus months ago.
We shouldn’t be seeing surging cases any more — which are especially bad in states which opened too early or without adequate safeguards.
We shouldn’t be hearing continued complaints from health care workers that CONTINUE READING: Wishing Doesn’t Make it So | Live Long and Prosper