NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced earlier today that schools will be open come January 3, 2022 and there will be no remote learning:
Bdb now speaking about school reopening plan for Jan 3. "Schools need to be open."
-No delay, no remote learning
-City will double amount of random in-school testing— Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) December 28, 2021
There will be a “huge influx of at-home rapid tests” from the state as well:
-Vaccinated AND unvaccinated students will be tested – for months it was just unvaccinated students. That will increase pool of kids who have consented to testing
-BdB will use huge influx of at-home rapid tests from Hochul to keep kids in classrooms— Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) December 28, 2021
He also said classroom quarantines will end (it’s about time):
-New plan to end classroom quarantines: when a kid tests positive, instead of everyone going remote, everyone gets an at-home rapid. If they are negative and asymptomatic, they can come back the next day
-Kids will take 2 rapid at-homes over 7 days— Eliza Shapiro (@elizashapiro) December 28, 2021
But this risk-based approach that puts kids first is not sitting well for former Clinton adviser Peter Daou who is questioning if de Blasio and the CDC “want to kill people”:
WHAT IN THE ACTUAL F*CK IS THIS?
With #Omicron, we're facing the biggest surge of the pandemic. First the CDC cuts the isolation period in half, now NYC schools will eliminate quarantining!
Do they want to kill people? pic.twitter.com/CdCcong4Pj
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 28, 2021
All those mitigation measures in NYC did . . . nothing, but oh well. Double down!
It's disingenuous and foolhardy to cite stats minimizing the risk of #COVID.
This is a HIGHLY contagious virus with unknown long term effects that is mutating across the globe.
We should be taking every mitigation measure possible.
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) December 28, 2021
And *now* it okay to challenge the experts?
Stop questioning the scientists and experts Pete. https://t.co/GXmlbzxTk0
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) December 28, 2021
He’s mad that they want to keep the schools open. Literally:
They want students to attend school and be educated. https://t.co/sns1fCOBwm
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 28, 2021
We don’t agree with Tom Nichols often, but he’s right here:
This is called "risk management" and it was overdue. https://t.co/Th0ZXZGLid
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 28, 2021
But, we imagine, there are a large number of libs who agree with him:
WTF: The schools are reopening with LESS protection for our families in our community!!! https://t.co/3lHY029jS5
— Céline Semaan (@celinecelines) December 28, 2021
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