Masks for thee but not for me?
Biden’s polling might be driving a change in policy, but it’s the long term consequences they are missing
I have to be honest: the states that have decided to lift the mask mandates for businesses but have left them on in schools are making a massive miscalculation. Here’s why.
First, kids are at such incredibly low risk of COVID it’s hard to overstate how low the risk is. Just over 830 kids under 18, which number 74,000,000 have died in over 2 years. We know that many of these (95% of overall deaths had 4 comorbidities) were very sick and compromised kids. Always sad, but statistically important.
Second, we know that mental health and learning are compromised with masks. Every parent knows this. The mask mandate came off at Ben’s school this week and the happiness to be at school learning went up. I don’t know how to calculate that mathematically, but you all know that from your own kids. And, if the kid is worried for some reason, they can always wear a mask themselves.
Third, we know herd immunity is reached when kids all catch this and develop immunity. Omicron is 70x more contagious than delta. It’s not a question of if but a question of when. As I said 2 years ago, while the hospitals have room, you want to get every kid under 18 to catch this thing. That’s basic queue theory and I wrote this April 3, 2020.
But finally and most importantly to politicians, these kids are about to turn 18. They don’t read the news, their life experience is the news. They know it is the democrats who have forced masks on them for two years. The White House can try to spin it but polling makes the topic incredibly clear. Kind of hard to hide.
My take? There is going to be a substantial wave of “libertarian” voters aging up in the next 2 years and they will be voting for the party that didn’t ruin their childhood for a long, long time.
And when they find out the cost of net zero is $11,300 per person each and every year for the next 29 years to get to net zero by 2050 and that money is actually going to corporations making 30% profit, paying 6% fees for IPOs while selling electricity at a regulated 10.2% rate of return to consumers while charging them the cost of decommissioning coal plants at the same time? Green tech billionaires with super Yatchs are hard to hide from kids that can’t afford houses. Well, you know how that will turn out, too.
Your “take” shouldn’t just apply to kids aging up, the entire lineage should take heed.
Now,…..what’s that saying about “a rising tide?”
Loved this..especially the DUTCH part..if his new boat can’t get out, he can set anchor, declare it an island…and maybe President Trump will buy it !!