.GovRonDeSantis opens a Tallahassee #COVID19 event with White House advisor Scott Atlas who has supported the president& #39;s positions on masks and opening schools, quoted as saying "the disease is extremely low for children, even less than that of seasonal flu."
WH advisor Scott Atlas says & #39;the strategy is understanding who is going to be vulnerable& #39; with focus on protecting those in nursing homes, prevent hospital overcrowding and & #39;open schools and the rest of society because a prolonged lockdown is extraordinarily harmful.& #39;
Atlas says @realDonaldTrump strategy is to have all nursing homes have point of care testing in the next month, including & #39;better infection control& #39; and & #39;surge testing by CDC strike teams when necessary& #39; with a purpose of keeping things open and & #39;protect the vulnerable& #39;
Atlas says @GovRonDeSantis policy is & #39;exactly right on target& #39;. Ed Secretary @richardcorcoran the drop in cases & #39;has allowed us to open up our schools& #39; and said all schools in Florida is open and & #39;parental choice works& #39;
Atlas is arguing that testing should be discouraged for asymptomatic people in schools and is unnecessary: "If you close colleges, you& #39;re sending low risk asymptomatic people into a high risk environment by sending them home with their older parents out into the community."
The message is getting pretty clear coming from the @GovRonDeSantis @GovRonDeSantis and the new WH advisor visiting this important swing state: let& #39;s stop testing, especially of people who don& #39;t have symptoms.
Says Atlas: "We& #39;re the only country of our nations in the Western world that& #39;s hysterical over opening schools...other countries, the UK, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, France, England, Italy, Spain, they are all opening schools."
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