SOMEONE NEEDS TO GIVE OUR RULING CLASS AND THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE A LESSON IN THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES AND HOW IT WORKS: Closing Schools To Protect Kids Made Them Sick

As it turns out, isolation does not put your immune system on pause; sometimes immunity follows a “use it or lose it” rule. While they were Zooming in to school, children with existing partial immunity to endemic contagious diseases missed many opportunities to be exposed again, which would have refreshed their immune systems. We ended up with the opposite of herd immunity: a bunch of kids with suboptimal immune systems.

 

It is one thing for leaders to make tough, transparent decisions that trade one person’s good for another’s. It is quite another thing for leaders to shut schools “to protect children’s health” when it does nothing of the sort.