Education Saves the Day

Jill Underly, as Wisconsin School Superintendent, was quoted in the September 2, 2021 issue of the News Graphic as saying, “If we...use these mitigation strategies (masks, vaccines, distancing), … school buildings remain open. Kids learn to read, do math, …”

For the record, “… children under the age of 15 have a 1 in 155,535 chance of dying of influenza, but a 1 in [1,200,000] chance of dying of COVID-19.”

Genevieve Briand, Assistant Program Director of the Applied Economics Master’s Degree program at John Hopkins, analyzed the effect of COVID-19 on U.S. deaths …“...[A]ccording to Briand, … Total death numbers are not above normal death numbers. We found no evidence to the contrary.”

Did Jill educate herself about the studies above or those showing masks don’t work?

Moreover, health care workers are not convinced vaccines are an answer.
“[They] … may be hesitant about the vaccine for a …variety of reasons. …[A] shortened emergency approval period… not enough is known about the experimental vaccines, …, distrust in … people who repeatedly manipulated …panic to push a political agenda…”

And unless we missed it, no one explains how those wearing masks and/or receiving the vaccine have anything to fear from those who don’t. Either they work or they don’t.

“In 2017, the US spent $12,800 per student on public education, … the second-highest amount spent … of any country in the world” and, “Pew Research …found the US ranked 38th in math and 24th in science compared against 71 other countries… Only two decades prior, the US's education system ranked 6th internationally.”

Jill should stop playing scientist, start educating, and LET PARENTS DECIDE.

-Opinion submitted by Scott Sidney