 All right, let's see back to school should schools reopen should schools reopen What would be your answer to that? Well, my answer to that is I don't know that should be up to the school and the parents Indeed The reason we have this question is because we have government schools We have so-called public education really government education and therefore politicians make these decisions But this shouldn't be a decision politicians make any more than Politicians should decide which businesses should open a which not and I know they do make those decisions, but they shouldn't I'm anti lockdowns Suddenly long lockdowns indefinite lockdowns and broad lockdowns It's one thing to lock down a small Area where there's an emergency for a short period of time and then it's over But any lockdowns like the lockdowns that we're seeing all over the country and have seen a model you know a Violation of the government's responsibility to protect individual rights. It's a massive violation of rights and and Schools should be the same that is school should decide Based on what's going on in the neighborhood based on what the parents want if schools Some schools would reopen some schools might close. I Suspect most schools would reopen because most parents want the school to reopen the risk of COVID to children is minimal It's not zero. Let's be clear. It's not zero But the flu is actually riskier to children than is COVID more children die of the flu than die of COVID We don't shut down the schools because of the flu now the other flip side of that is that Once the child has it they can infect adults and Older adults do die at a much much much much higher rate than the flu so Mortality from COVID is quite high when you get to significant ages above 70 the percentage of people who get infected with COVID to die is is ridiculously high But that's not a school problem if there are teachers that are older They should not teach they should isolate themselves If if parents are older then the parents need to find a solution to that maybe not send their kids to school Or maybe find a way To test more often to isolate themselves But generally the solution of COVID has always been the same and I've been saying this since February Solution of COVID is to isolate the vulnerable Do everything you can to always isolate old people and people with debilitating diseases that are that make it them very vulnerable to COVID it might turn out that that's a significant number of people whatever Isolate them Cocoon them to the extent possible. You won't be able to do it completely. Some people will die We have to accept the disease causes death. That's part of reality. That is just a fact Denying reality won't save anybody. You got a cocoon and protect the vulnerable and then you got a test You got a trace you got to isolate and Generally, you got to leave people alone particularly young people You got to leave people alone let them live their lives Mostly young people are the productive people in a society the economy won't take a hit if you take out 65 year olds and over and that should have been the solution for they want Trump completely blew it in the beginning and then state governors blew it from there and in general the response to COVID by the American government has been pathetic among the worst in the world and It doesn't seem like people are learning the right lessons people are lessons of people are learning off. Oh, we should have We should have locked down earlier. No, we should have done what you're supposed to do in a pandemic What the CDC advised to do in a pandemic what every epidemiologist early on advised needed to be done test trace Isolate and generally cocoon the elderly and the sick. That's it. Now, would you still have dead people? Yes less than we have a lot less and Even less than Sweden has Sweden per capita has slightly more than the United States But Sweden's economy is doing dramatically better than the United States Run a be better than the UK and it didn't lock down So should schools open? Yeah, they should open But they shouldn't become in schools So that schools can make those decisions independently as private schools and you can decide whether to send your kid or not to send your kid Sweden by the way never shut down the schools Up till I can't remember what grade I think 708 grade all schools stayed open Because kids don't get sick typically from COVID Motality is less than the flow. So why are we why did we ever close the schools? Why did we ever do lockdowns? Why are we still doing lockdowns? Our whole responses whole responses has been insane. I mean and I've said Just the response to COVID should be justification not to vote for Trump Failure on this scale by the federal government should justify Not voting for whoever's president no matter who the alternative is I've said this many times people have to suffer the consequences of their failures Politically if you let them get away with their failures on an ongoing basis Okay By the way, there's been a bunch of articles About the complete failure of COVID in the UK and in the United States as cover story in Time magazine of the Atlantic magazine Wall Street Journal lengthy article so they're finally documenting in great detail the failure of this administration and and the and the Governors to actually deal with COVID Appropriately and and they recognize that the scientists always had the the plan CDC had a plan on how to deal with the pandemic just the execution was so pathetic by the government Both here and in you What we need today, but I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not get want to give in to today's of the spare cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on reminder, please like the show. 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