On a neighborhood message board, parents were talking about the anxiety of the coming school year. A supporter of the president asked, "If other countries can send their kids back to school, why can't we?"

Here's why:

Because the United States is having one the strongest and most sustained outbreaks in the world and now lags behind nearly every developed nation.
Because many states have governors who won't enforce mask requirements.
Because we have not even made it through our first wave.

Because the president just this week, wore a mask for the first time (at 137,000 death) who refuses to publicly distance, and who is peddling conspiracy theories about this virus and pimping beans instead of working on virus response.

Because we have no national plan and because the Administration's medical experts and not being heard from and because the CDC is now being bypassed with the numbers of sick and dead people.

Let's be honest about where we are and where most of the world is right now.

All it will take is one positive case and classes and teachers will need to be quarantined and the whole thing collapses. I'd much rather have an online plan that is planned, not the chaos of sudden shutdown that we had in the Spring.

Other countries have had consistent leadership and a national plan and have not had people protesting the wearing of masks or the stay at home orders.

We have no business putting our children, teachers, and families at risk by placing them in close proximity with hundreds of people for eight hours a day in just four weeks, when they can't even go to a movie or a football game right now.

I'm grateful where I live in NC we're given the option of all online learning. It's the only one that makes sense when there is so much unknown and so much that is fighting against safety. January may let the science and our leadership catch up

Our national and aligned leaders are showing zero interest in the public health, so we're we're going to have to lead in their place. https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/07/08/forcing-schools-to-open-in-a-pandemic-is-child-abuse/