The country should NOT be doing everything to get students back to school. The country has to vanquish SARS-CoV-2 BEFORE unwitting children are exposed to danger.
McConnell is pandering to Trump.
Parents are at wit's end realizing their children may be asked to return to school without health insurance.
The virus has to be eliminated in the USA IN ORDER to return parents to work and their employee benefits and then and only then will students be READY to return to school and be AMONG OTHER STUDENTS.
McConnell needs to address THE REAL ISSUES and not the dreamscape of Donald John Trump.
Setting the health insurance issue aside, the REGIME involved in returning students to their schools is ridiculous.
Example: A student becomes ill in school. What then? Of course, the parent(s) have to be called to take them to the doctor. Normally, that is where it ends when it comes to the school and staff being involved.
THAT IS NOT THE CASE WITH COVID-19.
When a student becomes ill in school, the others in the classroom and possibly gymnasium or auditorium have to be tested. If there are positive tests then the contact tracing has to occur as it has already begun with the ill student. That means teachers and possibly administrators have to be tested. If positives are found then more contact tracing will have to occur. Then there is the home environment of the ill student. Are parents positive and if not that means the school, bus or playground is the culprit? Now, parents may test positive after contact with their own students. Once the parent(s) is positive that means they are unable to work for at least two or three weeks while receiving medications to end COVID-19 in their lives.
So, the ill student is then tested and the student is negative and able to return to school. Is the school now SARS-CoV-2 free? Is the ill student going into school entering a school that has no virus? If not, the circus of a dangerous illness begins all over again.
THERE IS NO PLAN FOR SCHOOLS THAT ARE DISEASE PROOF and COVID-19 is too dangerous to risk it.
Enough of this madness and stress.
If this mess doesn't end soon, I see a country on a countrywide general strike UNTIL the country is free of COVID-19. The general strike can last 16 days and end this virus transmission. The people can take this on themselves without anyone's help except their own resources.
