school days

“School days, school days
Dear old golden rule days
Reading and writing' and rithmetic
Taught to the tune of the hickory stick” (‘School Days’/Will D. Cobb/Gus Edwards)

“Clearly the ability of this virus to cause significant illness in children is very limited,” Redfield said. However, data on COVID-19 cases in school-age children is also very limited. The task force's coordinator, Dr. Deborah Birx, said that children under 10 represent the least-tested age group in the country. The U.S. is already straining to keep up with the demand for diagnostic tests in states with rising cases. During the Wednesday briefing, Dr. Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services who oversees U.S. coronavirus testing, said a fourth federal “surge” testing sights would be added in West Phoenix, Arizona. On Tuesday, Giroir said three temporary testing sites would be opened in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas to help those states cope with spikes of new coronavirus cases. 

“Everyone has been kind of grasping for anything that might work. And that’s not how you develop sound medical practice,” said Dr. Steven Nissen, a Cleveland Clinic researcher and frequent adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. “Desperation is not a strategy. Good clinical trials represent a solid strategy.”

Out of sheer desperation, not find a cure for COVID, not to provide adequate support systems, let alone adequate dollars or Federal wherewithal to fight the existing Phase of COVID, BUT OUT OF THE SELFISH DESIRE to win his second term and be re-elected, Trumps newest plot to divide and conquer target will be and is Children! School kids! And like his unscientific but cult-like demented approach to right or wrong, Patriot or Fascist, going to school is an American’s duty. In actuality all Trump desires are to have the kids in a Petri Dish, while their parents can work, (some in another kind of Petri Dish Environment) pretend this is a healthy way to revive the economy, and come November, have Americans pretend that IN FACT, CORONAVIRUS WAS A HOAX/TRUMP ALWAYS WAS ON TOP OF IT-------when in fact the sociopath/psychotic narcissist could give ONE SHIT about you or me and now American children, just so he can remain in office, and then become President for Life! Hyperbole, you say, BULL SHIT, I respond. Look at the rise in cases in Tulsa after Trump demanded he speak there, look at the rise in cases in Texas and Florida, whose own governors have licked Trump’s ass that their lips are permanently orange. And now the Bible Belt of states who insisted God only punished the Liberals…heeding Trump's advice and ignoring science, they too are running out of beds, because they never believed in medicine or science.