It's vital that we get those buildings open, and that we get those kids in there to study algebra, or whatever it is on their programs. Otherwise, how will Western Civilization continue its great march ahead? Obviously, living through a pandemic is not an educational experience. There is absolutely nothing to be learned from it.
One thing, for example, that cannot be learned is preserving the environment. Who cares if we've destroyed a whole lot of rain forest, and that animals out of their element bring us diseases that come from theirs? Who cares if we keep interacting with bats, and that they carry resistance to a whole lot of deadly diseases that we don't? As long as we have someone solving for X, let's forget about the earth, our home, altogether. That algebra cannot be allowed to simply go by the wayside.
Another thing we can't be bothered learning is it is not, in fact, a good idea to elect a self-serving, self-important, solipsistic serial liar to the Presidency of the United States. Why should kids bother learning things like that? That's cancel culture. We have an absolute right to select politicians who don't give a golly gosh darn about the environment (not to mention working people). If politicians choose not to take precautions in public, and if they get COVID and infect others with it, well, that's their right as Americans. Every time they breathe virus into one of our faces they're doing their sacred duty of owning the libs.
So let's get those kids into physical classrooms, for goodness sake, and never mind if, in fact, it's only a distinct minority of children who actually attend. Never mind if the people themselves, by a margin of two or three to one, don't trust the NY Times or the pediatricians in the survey. Never mind a consistent history of medical mistreatment that leaves minorities (majorities in our area) wary of doctors and even the NY Times reporters who preach to us.
Who cares if the few students who make it into buildings are kept separated and masked? The important thing is to keep them doing that algebra, or whatever it is we happen to be offering them that day. It doesn't matter if we invite them into rooms and preclude social interaction. It's good for kids to sit masked and far apart from one another, and it's healthy that most of them don't come in, evidently. But NY Times reporter have yet other brilliant insights to share with us:
How terrible that we keep interrupting in person learning so people won't get sick and die from a deadly disease. Thank goodness we have those razor-sharp @NYTimes reporters to bring this to our attention. https://t.co/veWVSJzUC1
— Arthur Goldstein (@TeacherArthurG) February 14, 2021
Yeah, it's an absolute disgrace we keep closing down schools so that children, their families, teachers and our families don't get a disease that's already slaughtered half a million Americans. How is that 25% of students going to learn algebra? Never mind that everyone else is doing so online so they don't need to risk their health or that of others. You can't expect the NY Times to get into the weeds like that. They're the paper of record and they have important stuff to think about.
Why do we have the very worst COVID results in the world? Well, it's partly because so many right-wingers spent so much time resisting the truth of this pandemic. How many times do we have to read of pastors and politicians denying COVID and then dying from it before we, they, and their followers learn? And how long are we on the ostensible left going to listen to the blithering nonsense that passes for information from NY Times reporters?
We are going through a worldwide crisis. Terrible as it is, it's a learning experience. Not only should our kids be learning from it, but we should too. It won't kill anyone to learn algebra next year.
Refusing to safeguard ourselves and our neighbors from COVID is a different thing altogether. It boggles my mind how many supposedly educated people are up in arms and ignoring that with everything they've got.
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