WHY SCHOOLS SHOULD BE OPEN: A THREAD. Imagine that you got stung by something you didn't know you were allergic to. Breathing is suddenly difficult. You black out. You wake up in the ER and a somber doctor is at your bedside. "I'm terribly sorry," she says, "But we have only 1/9

one epi-pen. The nearest one is hours away. You need it, but so does a 7 year old in the next bed. We have to save the child. You'll survive no more than one hour. Can we call your family for you?" Might you be devastated? Might you be furious? Sure. But would you argue 2/x

that the doctor was making the wrong decision? Few with any morality would. It is written into our DNA as humans that when push comes to shove, we take care of the helpless and innocent first. Ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary folx, if COVID is an emergency of sufficient 3/x

magnitude to warrant shuttering the economy and sacrificing fundamental freedoms, then push has come to shove and it is flatly immoral to sacrifice children to save adults. Teachers are mandated reporters of child abuse. They are responsible for more than 700,000 cases a year 4/x

of substantiated abuse being reported. Teachers with comorbid conditions can zoom in; young, healthy restaurant workers who are now unemployed people (gosh, where will we find any of those?) can be given mandated reporter training and serve as classroom monitors. The death 5/x

rate for kids is incredibly low--around 3 out of every 100,000 kids under 15 who get it (and not all will get it) will die. At-risk kids who haven't had a mandated reporter lay eyes on them since March and, now, may not again until September, are being sacrificed to save 6/x

adults. It is a colossal failure and a crime against humanity. Here is just ONE instance. Ask yourself how many monsters remember to check the camera. https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-online-class-teen-arrested-assault-girl-age-7-chicago-20201018-vf3arieyjzckzbe33wregpjytm-story.html

In deaths as well as many lesser forms of horror and abuse, children are being sacrificed to save adults. This is wrong. Please use your voice to beg President-Elect Biden and his incoming team, as well as your governors, to find something other than lockdowns as a solution. 8/x

I'm muting this thread because I'm an adult who wouldn't have lasted any 18 month period as a kid without mandated reporters laying eyes on me. Not up to it, today. Sorry not sorry. 9/9