The Most Fresh & Cordial Political Thread Ever

[nonniey]

Well, the NYTimes basically admitted the Dems were very wrong and the Republicans were (less wrong) on the school closures of 2020-21. DeSantis (I'm not a huge fan) was absolutely correct in his slightly belated response to COVID while others like Newsome were just as absolutely incorrect in their response.
The one issue I quibble about in the article is the claim that the data was lacking to get the initial decisions right. The data was there even before the first COVID cases hit the US. It was already known that children were basically not vulnerable to the disease from all reports out of China - meaning the schools should never have been closed at all (the less wrong bit for GOP).

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/u...mentsContainer

[Giantone]

So we agree with the NY Times when it meets out agenda , cool. Sorry but it's wrong. It talks about the kids yet some children did get sick, what about the Teachers of those children, what about the parents of those children , what the Grand parents of those children. What about the pandemic and it's affect on them??? That's right they are only Teachers they don't count.
It was a freaking pandemic and it's great to be a Monday Morning QB and second guess but it was a call on the side of caution during a time that no one knew exactly what to do, the experts did their best , sorry but to call anyone out now and I don't even blame trump for his reactions to it(WTF does that tell you) to call anyone out now is BS. Meaning the Times , not you.


P.S.

It's a effing pandemic, to say the Dems were wrong and the Rep were less wrong makes no sense.

https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-no...l-data-report/

I believe these people not the Times............


As of May 11, 2023, nearly 15.6 million children were reported to have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic according to available state reports. Over the past three years, the highest number of child cases reported in a week was over 1.1 million for the week ending January 20, 2022. Since the pandemic began, children represented 17.9% of total cumulated cases. The portion of reported cases that were children ranged from a low of 2.0% the week ending April 16, 2020 to a high of 28.9% the week ending September 9, 2021 (children, under age 18, make up 22.2% of the US population).

On May 11, an additional 6,848 child COVID-19 cases were reported. Over the past 6 months, weekly reported child cases have plateaued at an average of about 24,000 cases, while in the past month the average reported weekly cases have dropped further to about 9,000. These trends parallel the pattern and decline that has been reported for adults.