Surrendering your kid to modern educators is child abuse in itself, but this takes it further

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Seattle kindergartners forced to eat outdoors, and it gets worse

Kevin Downey, Jr.

Let me open with this: as of Jan. 6, 2022, 290 American kids between the ages of one and 14 have died of or with COVID-19. That’s .035% of all American COVID deaths, which stand at 825,083. Seventy-six of the child fatalities were aged one to four, and 214 were aged five to 14.

Based on that “science” from the CDC, some elementary schools in Seattle (of course), including Queen Anne Elementary, have decided their students — even kindergarten-aged-kids — will be eating their lunches outside. Even better: for “their protection,” they will have to pull up their masks after every bite. Needless to say, the kids will be spaced six feet apart because someone, somewhere, decided COVID can’t travel six feet.

FACT-O-RAMA! The six-foot social distancing rule was based on 80-year-old, outdated information. You’ve been standing on those floor stickers at Walmart for nothing.

When eating indoors, the kids have to remain silent? I know COVID only attacks restaurant patrons while they are standing, but I didn’t know it feasted on kids who talk during lunch.

I’m not a doctor but I’d guess eating outside in the rain — sideways rain or otherwise — when it’s 40 degrees is far more dangerous to a five-year-old than a virus that seems to all but dodge kids.

Making young kids eat outside in winter, when it’s raining, just to virtue signal what a devoted communist you are is repulsive. It’s a form of child cruelty that would make Bing Crosby wince. Parents who allow it are accessories.

This move isn’t surprising, considering it’s from the same district where an elementary school canceled Halloween because of — you guessed it — “woke.” But then again, they also teach kids that math is “racist.”

I was in a pharmacy today looking to refill a prescription. The pharmacist technician, masked and cowering behind a plexiglass shield, asked for the prescription number. Not having my reading glasses, I slid the bottle under the shield so that she could read it, but she recoiled in horror: “I don’t want to touch it!”. Sigh.

I understand that pharmacist techs inhabit the same dank IQ basement that teachers do, but, really? Does she really believe she can get a fatal dose of Bat Flu from touching a plastic bottle for 5 seconds? Yes, she does. We’re a long way away from returning to normal; in fact, I doubt we’ll ever get there.

And certainly not in places like Seattle, where parents willingly submit their children to the authority of sadistic morons.

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