Stanford Doc - The Science on COVID19 and Kids - Let them Go Back to School - Granite Grok

Stanford Doc – The Science on COVID19 and Kids – Let them Go Back to School

Smiling elementary school kids sitting at desks in classroom

Dr. Scott Atlas is the former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford University Medical Center, and he thinks this is nuts. “Anyone who thinks schools should be closed is not talking about the children. ”


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“There is virtually zero risk for children getting something serious or dying from this disease. Anyone who thinks schools should be closed is not talking about the children. It has nothing to do with the children’s risk,” he said. “There’s no rational reason or science to say that children transmit the disease significantly.”

He also notes the rest of the world is opening its schools, and yet here in America, we have states that are refusing to do that sometimes lorded over by union politics not good human health policy or science.

New Hampshire is not one of those, to the frustration of the Lockdown-Democrats. They are all-in on the false fear, and they would be. Control, abuse of power, and complete disregard for individual constitutional rights are planks in their unofficial party platform.

But that’s not the only problem.

The fearmongering media has a lot of people spooked. This has created space for concern on the near-right with Republicans more worried about perception as it relates to re-election than science, good policy, or constitutional rights.

The idea that programming people to wear masks and distance won’t do any harm grids the foundation of bad policy. We’ve demonstrated on multiple occasions, quoting doctors, virologists, medical journals, and other experts, that there is a severe downside to wearing masks all the time. You are doing yourself and your immune system’s long-term damage.

But this is no different than the thinking behind the bailouts, recovery funds, expanded unemployment, and other expenditures. It looks and feels good now, and hey, that’s where we are. But that rush has a considerable cost, and we are passing it down to future generations who had no vote or vice in the burdens placed upon them.

That’s just another form of slavery, and it has to stop.

 

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