Kamala’s ‘Incredible Friend,’ the Nemesis of American Parents

By midsummer 2020, weeks before U.S. government schools were scheduled to begin the 2020–21 academic year after the lockdown-trimmed 2019–20 year, the preponderance of scientific evidence was already showing that Covid-19 posed “minimal risks” to children under 18.

Moreover, there hadn’t been a single Covid-19 “super-spreader event” connected to schools in France, Germany, or Denmark, where public in-person primary and secondary education had already resumed, or in Sweden, where it had never been suspended. Meanwhile, mounting evidence showed that the absence of in-school instruction was hurting children physically, psychologically, and academically.

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Mark Mix is the president of the National Right to Work Committee.

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By midsummer 2020, weeks before U.S. government schools were scheduled to begin the 2020–21 academic year after the lockdown-trimmed 2019–20 year, the preponderance of scientific evidence was already showing that Covid-19 posed “minimal risks” to children under 18.

Moreover, there hadn’t been a single Covid-19 “super-spreader event” connected to schools in France, Germany, or Denmark, where public in-person primary and secondary education had already resumed, or in Sweden, where it had never been suspended. Meanwhile, mounting evidence showed that the absence of in-school instruction was hurting children physically, psychologically, and academically.