They needed to make alcohol easily available during covid in part because people are addicted to it and they can die without it. But this whole narrative is very strange. The first thing you SHOULD do in dealing with a deadly virus is close schools. I’m sorry but that is a wise course of action.
Yes, and also it’s possible to continue providing alcohol in ways that are SIGNIFICANTLY safer than literally any possible way to keep schools open and classrooms full Especially if you’re insistent on not taking even the single smallest step to clean the air inside those full classrooms
That’s another thing that just guts me. Some schools around the country used the time and money to put in the preventative HVAC. It made a huge difference when the kids went back. So much could have been done! If not for the finger-pointing nut cases.
My building did that. Made such a difference when we came back in the fall.
If only there were a way to make sure all schools were appropriately funded by say, increasing money provided to them at the national level… I wonder if anyone in congress has thought about that before? Well, it’s probably too difficult of a job for our unique country to ever manage. Oh well. /s
In our case, we had a building where the oldest part is over 100 years old, with HVAC from tbe 1960’s. Being closed for several months and extra money earmarked for COVID mitigation …well, even the city couldn’t mess up connecting that A to B.
Plenty of cities went with eg “here’s an air purifier for each classroom no we will not enforce usage no we will not be buying new filters” though
I suspect most cities weren’t facing thousands of dollars to replace HVAC that now the federal govt would pay for :).
This was a good use of the money for covid. These things WORK.
You can buy booze in grocery stores in most of the country. It's absurd that my SiL had to teach middle schoolers on Zoom while I could go out to have a beer, even if it was outdoor seating only.
Almost as if there is a public health difference between spacex seating outdoors vs crowded seating indoors.
No, what’s absurd is that you clearly don’t believe your sister in law’s health was worth trying to preserve instead of forcing her to encounter 150 potentially infectious students a day, five days a week
There were measures that could have been implemented to mitigate risk (like improved HVAC to facilitate better air circulation), which would have made childhood education (which is way more essential than bars) less risky, that weren't. She agrees with me there.
I am with you on the fact that bars should not have been open for in person events; I know that a decent number of bars here actually were able to do carry out with proof of age and ID, and we did a very slow reopening process based on % positivity.
One of my sisters is a teacher, a single mom and covid fucked up her health big time—she has to work and support a whole family on her own STILL. Now she has uncontrolled high blood pressure and diabetes —she got immediately after covid. Yes, she lives in a red state. NO TIME OFF WITH COVID.