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Meat and and poultry plants have had massive outbreaks of COVID-19. Their
workers are mainly immigrantsand children of immigrants.
When schools reopen will white Anglo parents send their kids to public schools
in packing plant towns? Or willwe see "Christian" segregated schools opening
up? All-white "seg academies" were big in the South betweenthe the SCOTUS
Brown decision (1954) and a federal crackdown in the 70"s. Now the southern
private academies are mainly segregated.
This is just a prediction. Education isn't my field and I don't have kids.
Should schools reopen? How much is gained by closing schools? If we were in an
an influenza pandemic shutting down schools would be a no-brainer.
Our federal system of state and local governments leads to an uncoordinated
hodgepodge of responses. It also leads to unplanned experiments with our
people. What policies work and what doesn't? Herd immunity will stop the
pandemic eventually. Most of the population has to get COVID-19 or a vaccine is
developed. Herd immunity is Sweden's policy and it is what the southern states
policies will lead to. Most people get the virus.
Mitch McConnell doesn't want to give aid to states. That will force other
states to follow the red state model.
Ed Fesler <email obscured>
Minneapolis