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This is wrong for two reasons:
It accepts Biden is correct in continuing Trump's pandemic strategy of suppression/mitigation instead of changing to elimination.
It accepts the false premise we must send people back to work in unsafe conditions to provide for their needs. https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1362524536508469253
It accepts Biden is correct in continuing Trump's pandemic strategy of suppression/mitigation instead of changing to elimination.
It accepts the false premise we must send people back to work in unsafe conditions to provide for their needs. https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1362524536508469253
The position the American left needs to take now is the same one we've taken all along:
Pay people to stay home
Expand healthcare to all
Cancel debt and ban evictions
Address the massive inequality in education
We do this by changing pandemic strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361435245686398984
Pay people to stay home
Expand healthcare to all
Cancel debt and ban evictions
Address the massive inequality in education
We do this by changing pandemic strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361435245686398984
It's especially important to address inequality in education *before* re-opening schools because that inequality is the same reason BIPOC, Native, and poor people have been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1359044798582202372
The problem here is that US media has totally missed the fact Biden is continuing to use Trump's pandemic strategy.
A strategy based on a neoliberal, bootstraps, trickle-down, get back to work, ideology that puts profits over lives. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1362157425592213506
A strategy based on a neoliberal, bootstraps, trickle-down, get back to work, ideology that puts profits over lives. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1362157425592213506
Biden's refusal to cancel student debt is one aspect of a broader ideological problem that is also impacting his pandemic strategy.
It's the same reason he's pushing to open schools. His pandemic strategy requires it. But it's the wrong strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361432676834500609
It's the same reason he's pushing to open schools. His pandemic strategy requires it. But it's the wrong strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361432676834500609
People who are opposing re-opening schools are doing so for *very good reasons* and people across the political spectrum need to stand with them.
They're saying: Don't re-open until it's safe.
That's the position supported by evidence. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1359039145910235141
They're saying: Don't re-open until it's safe.
That's the position supported by evidence. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1359039145910235141
Here's what the director of WHO Europe says about it:
"Time and again have we seen countries reopen too fast and lose hard-earned gains." https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361520767108747267
"Time and again have we seen countries reopen too fast and lose hard-earned gains." https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361520767108747267
Saying "we must open schools so parents can go back to work in the middle of a pandemic" is terrible circular reasoning.
Parents shouldn't have to go back to work in a pandemic. Opening schools so they can is just causing even *more* unnecessary harm.
Parents shouldn't have to go back to work in a pandemic. Opening schools so they can is just causing even *more* unnecessary harm.
Also getting kids back to school shouldn't be our goal.
Our goal should be stopping community transmission while fixing the inequality in schools as we vaccinate, and then returning to school when it's safe for everyone in the school ecosystem to do that.
That's the science.
Our goal should be stopping community transmission while fixing the inequality in schools as we vaccinate, and then returning to school when it's safe for everyone in the school ecosystem to do that.
That's the science.
Somehow, as always, the discussion about "re-opening" in the US is all backwards.
It's being driven by the idea that we should re-open, instead of the idea that we should make it SAFE TO RE-OPEN first.
Cart before horse isn't a pandemic strategy.
It's being driven by the idea that we should re-open, instead of the idea that we should make it SAFE TO RE-OPEN first.
Cart before horse isn't a pandemic strategy.
Children don't go to school on their own without adults.
"Children going to school" means:
teachers
office workers
administration
transportation
kitchens
maintenance
cleaning
healthcare
etc.
All working to support in-person learning when it could be done remotely for now.
"Children going to school" means:
teachers
office workers
administration
transportation
kitchens
maintenance
cleaning
healthcare
etc.
All working to support in-person learning when it could be done remotely for now.
When people say they want to re-open schools, the correct answer is always:
Join us in calling for a #ZeroCOVID strategy which will get schools open FASTER and SAFER than our current failed strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361456519779352577
Join us in calling for a #ZeroCOVID strategy which will get schools open FASTER and SAFER than our current failed strategy. https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1361456519779352577
The US has terrible healthcare inequality. Over 100 million Americans have no healthcare or inadequate healthcare.
Now imagine opening schools during a pandemic.
How many children and adults in the school ecosystem are high-risk and don't even know it? https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1352116720106758145
Now imagine opening schools during a pandemic.
How many children and adults in the school ecosystem are high-risk and don't even know it? https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/1352116720106758145
When 50% of US school districts are still SEGREGATED, what do you think is going to happen when they try to re-open during a pandemic?
Who is going to bear the costs of that the most?
It won't be the people calling to re-open schools who are primarily wealthy white people.
Who is going to bear the costs of that the most?
It won't be the people calling to re-open schools who are primarily wealthy white people.
Demanding to re-open schools urgently before it's safe is ignoring the risk to the most vulnerable families and students who are disproportionately threatened by the pandemic.
Pay people to stay home, stop community transmission, re-open when it's safe based on data, not desire.
Pay people to stay home, stop community transmission, re-open when it's safe based on data, not desire.
Biden transition team experts: The CDC has not fully reckoned with airborne transmission of the coronavirus in settings like hospitals and SCHOOLS...
#COVIDisAirborne
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/health/coronavirus-aerosols-workplaces.html
#COVIDisAirborne
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/health/coronavirus-aerosols-workplaces.html
