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Oh Lord, Georgia, y’all.
Theresa Lyons, a member of the Pauling County Board of Education, found herself at a Board meeting discussing school in the time of Covid.
No, seriously.
Seriously, you can see it for yourself.
Honey, you can just see her doing the spic ‘n span motion with her hands and announcing, “problem solved!”
Holy cow. So we expose more children to the sick child but, by gawd, we beat those pencilheads with their fancy pants stethoscopes and thermometers over at the County Department of Health.
Thanks to Alan in Austin for the heads up.
Where I grew up. Completely typical.
1Once again, the stupid, it burns —- on both sides.
1] Sure, Lyons is a special kind of stupid — using the letter of the law to get around it
2] But Georgia’s Health Dept. ain’t much better:
Given the state of testing in this country and the fact that a lot of kids never show symptoms, how are school staff supposed to identify who’s got covid and who doesn’t?
You can create as many requirements to adhere to as you want, but if they’re not effective you’re looking busy while doing nothing.
Given the current state of our country, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised but our officials do continue to amaze me.
2Headline: At least 97,000 kids contracted coronavirus in the last two weeks of July in US
Stop with the musical chairs jackass!
3Link for that headline:
https://www.msn.com/en-in/finance/markets/at-least-97000-kids-contracted-coronavirus-in-the-last-two-weeks-of-july-in-us/ar-BB17M2ZG
4Welp. That didn’t take long:
5https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/08/09/nine-people-test-positive-coronavirus-georgia-school-where-photos-packed-hallways-went-viral/?utm_campaign=wp_for_you&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_personalizedforyou
I have two grands going back to some vestige of school in September. My son and DIL have stressed all summer the importance of masks and hand washing, however they kids are so excited to get back I’m sure that will all go out the window. We don’t need elected officials acting child-like, there will be enough in the classroom. Good luck sainted teachers!
6I am incredibly grateful that my grandson’s school–even in North Carolina–is going to start out virtual, until December, and then re-evaluate. At this rate, they won’t have a day of in-person classes, all year long. How did people get so stupid as to let–nay, encourage–this plague to continue to spread?
7All right kids, put away the novels we haven’t burned yet, now it’s time for Georgia Math. Today, word problems!
Let’s start off with this one. If every 14 minutes a different student sits near another student who is asymptotic for COVID-19, but will test positive by the end of the week…
8I hated word problems in math! Especially the ones about trains leaving two different stations at the same time i order to get to the same place! Puh-lease! Even when I was a kid I knew that was suicidal!
9Reading Texas Penal Code
19.01 A person commits criminal homicide if he intentionally, knowingly, recklessly, or with criminal negligence causes the death of an individual.
I’m headed to reckless and/or criminal negligence when folks refuse to wear a mask, have the covid, transmit the covid to a second person, and the second person dies.
Murder? Felony 1. “intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual;” Is not caring whether you infect another “intends” for the purposes of this section? Don’t know.
Capital Murder? Capital Felony.
8) the person murders an individual under 10 years of age;
(9) the person murders an individual 10 years of age or older but younger than 15 years of age;
Does each child under the age of 15 who has died from the Covid constitute a separate case of Cap Murder?
Manslaughter. Felony 2.
A person commits an offense if he recklessly causes the death of an individual. There’s that word recklessly again.
Criminally Negligent Homicide. State Jail Felony.
A person commits an offense if he causes the death of an individual by criminal negligence.
Where are the crusading DAs running for re-election in November? Nothing says we’re taking this seriously like putting scofflaws in jail while making them confront the real life consequences of their reckless, negligence.
10Just as Drumpf pushed business to open too soon resulting in a
11surge of COVID cases and deaths, now he’s doing the same thing with schools, and it’s not because he values education.
Parents need somewhere to stash their kids so they can go to work and more businesses can open and the jobs report will improve, if only for a time, until the whole thing comes crashing down with an even bigger surge and millions more deaths.
The governors and mayors who bravely resist are receiving
death threats.