Do we stay out of school for the next year? That would be a disaster for the children, and working parents.
It would be wise to shut schools for a full year. Disaster? Maybe so... but it shouldn't be.
That is an American disaster, due to our disastrous system of failure that tells people they are worthless and should be discarded as pieces of trash if they do not measure up on a specific timeline. The children would most certainly handle a missing year if we simply accommodated them. The parents OTOH, forcing both of them to work just for base survival is also an American failure. With no true safety net the disruption of a virus can be catastrophic to our house of cards built on greed. There is no excuse for America being so fragile, or frankly so god damn stupid.
We do not deserve the concept of "first world nation". For that is not an adequate description of our nation this day.
It is too late to enact the change necessary to provide a robust social safety net, in time to stave off the pain and suffering ahead. But we must use this pain as a lesson to be learned. That America is broken and needs to be fixed. America is in desperate need for a grand new deal, a sweeping series of reforms to actually care for one another. Rather than doing our best to cannibalize one another. What we are, what we do - to one another - is sickening. We need to do better, it is our duty to our children to make this nation a better place. And that starts with the reforms needed to ensure we can weather such a virus. That safety nets are in place. If not today, then tomorrow.
Unfortunately there is a political party whose very mission is to prevent us from saving the American people from disasters such as this. And their failed economic policy keeps Americans afraid. Afraid of the measures that can help them. This is akin to placing a lid on a boiling pot. The change is coming, but it may be too violent for anyone's liking.
Which brings me back to the topic. Of what a disaster it is for parents to actually have and care for their children during a crisis. That this burden alone is somehow an additional crisis on top of another. Damn our nation for being this dysfunctional. Damn those who put us in this position of weakness. Americans are so afraid of our economic weakness that many would rather stare down and risk death from a virus than suffer a shutdown or actually raise their kids for a year.
A vote for Trump, or any Republican for that matter, is a vote to continue this failed system of pain and suffering.
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