COVID-19 Megathread 6: Return of the Omicron

[H. Ross Peron]

All true but you're in a heavily Republican state, and interestingly school reopenings have been one of the few COVID related issues the GOP is better on. This is surprising because pre covid I always associated home "schooling" with the right.

Worth noting the home schooling advocated by Dems as a covid measure (virtual learning) is vastly different than the sort of homeschooling often associated with the right, which often involves subverting the education system by defunding and creating their own revisionist curriculum.

The sort of virtual learning however *is* favoured by neoliberals who hope to use this as an opportunity to hire fewer full time teachers or professors and thus have large classes of hundreds of students per online instructor. See Eric Adams.

[H. Ross Peron]

^^^ There still should have been an effort to do so, even with the chance of being struck down.

Literally nobody was going to accept 3 year long lockdowns.

[H. Ross Peron]

Sad to see students being scared into doing these performative protests:

https://twitter.com/Jill_Jorgensen/status/1480953134553862146