tommie said:
Flaming Moderate said:
tommie said:
Flaming Moderate said:
tommie said:
Good starting point for reopening at today's press conference. I say starting point because new data points will become known in the future.
Focused press conference. To the point. Presidential.
So how do you answer for:
- Women and children trapped at home facing increased domestic violence or sexual abuse?
- Children falling behind wealthier peers at school because their homes are not conducive to online learning?
- Single mothers and father trying to hold onto a work from home job and teach their kids?
- People suffering because they cannot get needed surgery?
- The poor and middle classes who will lose their homes, savings, and ability to feed their families?
I don't have an answer for all the worlds problems.
You're asking public policy questions that are an issue EVEN without a pandemic.
That's a deflection with all due respect, and you know it. This is not all the world's problems but problems caused by the shutdown.
That is like saying because there is gun-related crime we should not do anything to mitigate school shootings. '
The shutdown directly causes or significantly exacerbates these problems, so how do you account for the least of these suffering much more under the shutdown?
If you support continuing the shutdown, then you owe the people you're hurting an answer, so what is yours?
You want us to believe that kids and women are abused now bout weren't before the shutdown?
That families before the shutdown weren't struggling to pay bills but are now? That poor kids weren't falling behind in the classroom but now they are?
Can I move into your neighborhood?
Yes. The Tarrant County Sheriff was on the radio this morning and said domestic violence calls were significantly up since the shutdown. Not sure how familiar you are with abused children and women, but for many work and school is a sanctuary where they can find needed support, comfort, and escape. I know many teachers in tears daily because for a few of their students, school was the only safe place in their lives away from abusive parents, neighborhood thugs, and corrupt cops.
Do you think it is more difficult to pay bills without a job? For the 20M people that have lost their jobs since the shutdown, do you think that is easier or more difficult to pay bills? The layoffs are disproportionately affecting the poor and middle class, but no one really cares about them it seems.
Again, for many poor kids, home life is not optimal. We take for granted we have irenic homes an Internet access. For many smart, poor kids, their homes are just not conducive for online learning. Where at once they stayed after school studying in the library or learned in class, now they may not even be able to access online learning or certainly lack the environment for learning.
I would love to take you around some of these neighborhoods. You would be surprised at what we take for granted. I had a former "little brother" who was very smart both book and common sense, but his mom did not provide a stable home environment. They moved frequently depending on boyfriends and bill collectors. Shean was one of those kids on the bubble - this would have popped any chance for him to go to college.
Think about all those kids that needed one great semester to earn a scholarship for athletics or academics. All "poof." I just have a lot of sympathy for the least of these being irrefutably harmed by the shutdown. We're all blessed and guilty of living in a bubble and not really thinking about how our silly online banter affects real people.