Start school? No really...

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The George Castanza Moment

School starts back this week. In what has to be one of the biggest contradictions ever, the powers that be have determined that the best way forward is to do the complete opposite of what they've been telling us to do for the last six months! From stay home, keep your distance, no congregating allowed to everybody crowd onto a bus and sit for extended periods in a closed class room with dozens of other people while recirculated air is pumped throughout the entire building! There's a plan! Remember what we said in April? Do the opposite!

The Outcome

What is going to happen any blind man can see. Cases will go through the roof. Not because this virus is any different but because pretty much all the viruses out there get spread through the public school system. Stomach viruses, colds, flu, chicken pox, pink eye you name it. If you ever caught anything as a child you probably got it at school. It's a breeding ground for disease. They can mandate all the mask wearing, hand washing and disinfectant spraying they wish but it isn't going to matter. This will be the final stop for the Covid and it should finally, mercifully have completed its cycle. Unless, they get two weeks into the school year and close it down again because every teacher and bus driver and faculty test positive along with a fairly large percentage of older students. And who knows even little kids might be susceptible in such an non quarantined environment. We'll see. 

Personally, I would not send my children back. Even here, out in the sticks, the system is allowing for kids to take their classes online. Since I don't see any real value in Government schools in the first place I would use this opportunity to the fullest extent possible. I know that on the whole school is, in reality, just a socialized baby sitting scheme for single parent households or for families where both parents work.

Mixed Signals

But it's very clear that Dems and Republicans both are in agreement that school should "re-open", disregard any previous lip service to the contrary. Public school is an arm of the government and both parties are one hundred percent in favor of America's children being indoctrinated, corona virus be damned! The mutual agreement of both parties on this point should be a clear indicator that the last six months of draconian lock downs and asinine ordinances too myriad to mention were nothing but window dressing and political posturing, never having any meaningful value for the health of the populace. And yet they will continue to deprive people of their right to their livelihood while giving the all clear for school. Because either a) Covid isn't nearly as bad as we are supposed to believe it is or b) School should be postponed. It can't be both.