Posted on 07/31/2020 7:06:17 PM PDT by rxsid
CDC warns Congress of ‘significant public health consequences’ if schools don’t reopen in the fall
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Congress on Friday of “significant public health consequences” if schools don’t reopen in the fall.
Millions of children get nutritional and mental health services at schools, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told a House Select Subcommittee hearing on containing the coronavirus outbreak. He said school reopenings to be done “smartly.”
“It’s important to realize that it’s in the public health’s best interest for K-12 students to get back into face-to-face learning,” Redfield testified. “There’s really very significant public health consequences of the school closure.”
About “7.1 million kids get their mental health service at schools,” he added. “They get their nutritional support from their schools. We’re seeing an increase in drug use disorder as well as suicide in adolescent individuals. I do think that it’s really important to realize it’s not public health versus the economy about school reopening.”
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“Because you said?”
Apparently either the Mod didn’t like me trashing teachers’ unions/schools or the bureaucratic MDs at CDC. Perhaps he/she worships CDC; who knows. My comment is zotted.
The point I was making was that the REAL danger is not in the mental health of children, but raising them in a plastic bubble.
So lemme get this straight: You want ME to expend time to provide YOU links to studies which are easily available to a simple Boolean search on the consequences of raising children in a sterile environment (a well-established hypothesis in spite of MD bias) in a thread which the moderator chose to censor my comment because I slurred MDs and bureaucrats as supporting propagandistic public education and teacher’s unions?
Normally I’d say buy lube, but since I have a bone to pick with an oversensitive moderator, here’s ONE to get you started (keywords “hygiene hypothesis”):
I don’t understand why my comment (#10) got zotted and yours is still up.
Must be your choice of words vs. mine. I swear we made parallel comments...
Thanks for the link:
pingout!!!!
Read my lips. Not..A...Decision....for....Congress
On-topic, here’s an explanation for my zotted comment re “nutrition”.
https://foodrevolution.org/blog/school-lunch-in-america/
The source references MULTIPLE studies which outline the absolutely HORRIBLE state of quality of school-provided food, now being promoted by the left because parents are apparently unable to feed their children properly.
It would be LOL if it wasn’t so serious, as grammar school food habits both build defective immune systems and frame a lifetime of eating habits...until a person reaches such a point of health as to have a reason to change.
Insofar as the “mental health” derisive comment I made in my now-zotted comment, consider this glaring omission from the CDC:
You place children in a government school setting with mandated separation, sanitization and face covering rules and see what happens to the mental health of children.
If the propaganda wasn’t bad enough leading into the prior, pre-pandemic year, now many states are outlining truly draconian conditions for a learning environment which is assured to lead NOT to improved mental health, but children under an oppressive culture which results in stress, anxiety and all of the societal problems which will result from such a paradigm.
The point of my zotted comment is that CDC - like ALL of their other proclamations/recommendations on this epidemic - are squarely in left field and demonstrable of bias of epic proportions.
Will this generation of children - the ‘pandemic generation’ - be the next leaders, or “followers”?
I believe that the answer is all-too-obvious, as are the motivations of bureaucrats and public officials.
The Left even goes to great lengths to exaggerate the amount of hunger in this country, and I have concluded that they wish to use child hunger as a tool and lever to advance their footprint in the lives of everyday Americans. There is no doubt they want to destroy the family unit as they view it as evil and dysfunctional, where they think the government with all of its expertise can do a better job than stupid, uneducated parents.
After all, it will al be "for the children" and who can be against that?
In communities near me, during this COVID crisis, they are using school buses-huge, gas guzzling school buses!-to deliver food to individual students who are not in school, and I believe they have opened the preparation and delivery to adults as well, though I cannot confirm this yet. Here is a release from the City on the subject:
Anyone under age 18 in XXXXXXXXXX can grab a meal from drop off locations, even students who don't attend public schools. Meals are delivered Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in the morning and at lunchtime
I have it on authority from someone who lives in that city that they are doing door to door drop-offs, not just to "drop off locations". And this is not a poor city.
Appreciated.
All persons must presume that every person is contagious and infected, regardless of testing, symptoms, or other evidence. My main role in society is to spread disease as a vector. Therefore, I should hide forever and minimize any interactions. All social contact is forbidden. Anyone who buckles under this regime and slips into pornography, drug addiction, depression, or suicide is too weak to participate in society and unworthy of consideration as a human person. Such persons, undeserving of life in the implicit schemes of ruling politicians, in their estimation should die quietly and anonymously and cease polluting the population with their existence.
Or we could validate their lives and their role in society, but that might imply that all lives matter, which is forbidden. Only black lives matter, and even their lives don’t matter in the sense that they should be protected from annihilation, whether in the abortuaries that kill most black babies or in the cities where gang warfare targets black Americans and severely reduces their life expectancy or especially if they find honorable jobs in municipal police departments and other law enforcement agencies. Surely, black lives matter, but assuredly not in the sense that they should enjoy the opportunity to attain to the dignity of work without arbitrary government shutdown orders that terminate their businesses or that politicians should not drive them to despair, drug overdoses, and suicide and conspire to block almost every alternative honorable lifestyle.
Somehow, I, a wretchedly bad American in my irredeemably and profoundly un-American mindset prefer to end the tyranny and to protect and to restore the right to life for all Americans. But that makes me a horribly bad American.
Although many young adults bear children, some parents are quite old. A mother who bears a child at 45 years of age attains to 63 years of age before the child reaches the age of majority. Some fathers are older still.
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In Calif. the unions want the earth, sky and the sea before they go back to supposedly working. Some calif. neighborhoods have fixed that problem. They are hiring home schooling teachers!!Who needs union teachers anyway.
Business first, business last, business always.
Again the whole thing is something to behold all this criticism of public education over the years by conservatives as in social conservatives now they are expected to march in lockstep with the business interests that want the schools to reopen so parents can work.
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