By Randy Rossi -
We are getting more proof every day that we are causing massive unnecessary harm to our kids that will hurt them for all their lives by shutting down our schools and replacing “In person learning” with disastrous “Virtual Learning”. The fact is that we are committing massive child abuse as a nation by allowing irrational and hysterical fear to rule over facts, logic, and love for our kids. Pretty strong criticism right? Well, here are the facts. First and foremost, The CDC just announced that as of October 10, only 74 kids under the age of 15 have died from Covid 19. Compared to that, during the 2019-2020 flu season, 434 children under the age of 18 died from the annual flu. That means the annual flu is almost 6 times more likely to kill our kids than COVID 19. Do we shut down our schools every year because of the flu? Of course not. Why are we shutting down our schools now? There are over 50 million kids in the USA under 15 which means that only 0.000148% of our kids under 15 have died from Covid 19 so far, yet we have shut down all our schools. That’s insane. On top of all that, if a kid is unlucky enough to catch Covid 19, the CDC has reported their survival rate from COVID 19 is 99.997! Why the heck did we shut down our schools? The odds of our kids catching and dying from COVID 19 are about the same as getting hit by lightning.
But those COVID 19 school shutdowns are far worse than that for our kids. Tons of scientific research from multiple experts including the CDC and American Association of Pediatrics have reported that kids that have been kicked out of school to get “Virtual Learning” will suffer serious academic, social, and behavioral damage that will last their lifetimes. According to two experts in the WSJ, “Mental health surveys indicate that keeping young children isolated from each other for months has devastating psychological consequences”. For nothing! So we are causing massive pain and suffering for tens of millions of our kids because 74 kids have died from COVID 19. Does that make any sense? On top of that, new research from McKinsey and Co. shows that these school shutdowns will cause the loss of between $61,000-$82,000 of lost lifetime income for those kids that were needlessly kicked out of school.
Tragically, instead of sticking up for our kids, teachers unions are fighting hard to keep our schools closed which causes massive pain to our kids. Why? I thought that they were suppose to love our kids and work hard to help them live better lives. Is it fear of COVID 19? Based on CDC statistics, any teacher under 50 who catches COVID 19 has a 99.98% chance of surviving. So teachers are willing to cause massive damage to all of our kids because they have a 0.02% chance of dying from COVID 19? They are more likely to die in a car accident than from COVID 19! Have they stopped driving their cars? On top of all this pain to our kids, by teachers unions refusing to teach in school, they are also causing massive pain to working class women that can’t go to work as they have to stay home with their children while teachers get their full pay while they practice lousy “Virtual Learning” that is a complete disaster.
This closing down our schools disaster will go down in history as the worst abuse of children since the Canaanites sacrificed their babies. While America shuts down its schools and causes massive pain to its kids for no logical reason, Europe has reopened theirs. Sweden never closed their schools and had no deaths from COVID 19 with school aged children. It is time for all loving parents to rise up and demand that we reopen our schools now! The only way these liberal politicians and teachers unions will cave in is if they realize that they will pay a huge price in getting voted out of office and lose public trust for not reopening our schools. The future of your children is in your hands people and if you love your kids, it is time to demand that they be allowed back into school! Now!
