Posted on 02/22/2022 8:56:24 PM PST by DoodleBob
...Republicans are more likely than Democrats to want parents to be the only decision makers when it comes to protecting their kids from both the coronavirus and controversial ideas. In polls, they are more inclined to say that protecting personal liberty is more important than the common good; that masks and vaccines shouldn’t be mandated in schools; and that parents should get a say in what children are taught. “I feel like, as a parent, we know what’s best for our children,” Erica, a Virginia mother...told me. “If you want to wear a mask, please do. But please don’t force me to have my child wear a mask.”
Democrats, meanwhile, are more likely to express interest in protecting the common good. They’re more likely to feel that, in school, students should learn to fix social problems. And in polls, they’re more likely than Republicans to trust teachers and public-health officials. Caroline Pharr, a Democratic mom in Helena, Montana, supports universal masking in schools in part because it “protects communities, including those that can’t choose to get vaccinated yet,” she told me. “Wearing a mask doesn’t just impact you; it impacts everyone around you.” She thinks that public-health officials, not individual parents, should be the ones to decide when masks come off in schools.
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Still, the fight over whether to prioritize parental control or community well-being has played out in other school-related imbroglios across the country in recent months....While conservatives focus on parental rights, liberals are more likely to endorse the idea that curricula and school public-health guidelines should leave no vulnerable person behind. In an op-ed..., the parent group Loudon4all emphasized the potential benefits of universal masking for other people, writing that it “is not just to keep students healthy; it keeps educators healthy and prevents community spread.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
FWIW, we don’t know that all the residential care fatalities attributed to CoupFlu were actually from the coof (technically from complications).
Elections aren’t the only things in dire need of an audit.
He did it, too.
And guess what else he did...
Thanks for the links.
You’re welcome.
They want to pave the roads with our faces for the "common good".
For the common good
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I used to carry a pocket dictionary , to pin weasels down in arguments or debates,,, they always bail when you do that.
Then came wikimeaningofthemoment
Then all the dictionaries went to rapid 1984 weasel redefinition to suit the left mode.
I have since quit trying to reach the loony tunes in the meatworld as they are all vindictive and dangerous to life, limb and property when proven wrong and angered.
On what planet do vaccines that don’t prevent the illness have anything to do with the “common good?”
For Dems, common good is all about feeeeeeeeling like you are accomplishing some high-minded goal that is not based in reality, actual outcomes be d#mned
Democrat parents have no problem aborting their kids so there’s that....
‘It’s pretty damned strange that we’re still finding time to squabble about this in the waning tail end of the sickness.’
not really; masks on children have nothing to do with their
welfare; it has everything to do with unionized teachers flexing muscle and dictating terms...
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