2.6.2021
Riddle me this, America, would you rather be an OUTLIER and alive OR be an early adopter hospitalized or dead from a deadly virus for which there is still no universally acknowledged 100% cure or treatment and a nationwide vaccine shortage?

Check out his interview, here:
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Gavin-Newsom-schools-reopen-teachers-union-vaccine-15856522.php

From Gov. Gavin Newsom: "There's an old African proverb that says, 'If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together,'" he said. "And I do believe fundamentally that if we're going to successfully educate our most vulnerable kids, if we're going to be successful in addressing learning loss, if we are going to be successful as a state, we have to do it as partnership with. So this notion of imposition, closed fist versus an open hand, is a distinction for me that's important, and that distinction is reflected in providing incentives for the kind of behavior we want to see."
Most of California's public schools have remained closed throughout the coronavirus pandemic as district officials have slow-walked reopenings. California is an outlier nationally, as public schools have been open in other large blue states such as New York and Massachusetts."

COVID-19 is not a fantasy reality television sitcom. Over 400,000 dead Americans and their surviving family members would strongly suggest the threat is real. Thank you, Governor Newsom, for your pragmatic, thoughtful and wise leadership during a global pandemic which was unfortunately managed with deadly inefficiency by a POTUS45 and team who only cared about being re-elected so that Trump could be " just like" his benevolent dictatorship brothers in Russia, Israel, Brazil, and China. Yes, that as far as 1.6.2021 terror attacks, Mrs. Marjorie Taylor Greene, her GOP colleagues, and a well-financed propaganda machine would have us believe, is still their JOB 1. I say, a pox on all politicians behaving like all the worst human beings, ever. And nobody wants me to start naming the names of that Rogues Gallery, right Herr Hitler?

Then check this out:
https://www.sfgate.com/education/article/A-California-school-district-reopened-in-person-15927588.php

Ripped from today's headlines:
Good morning, America! Welcome to the AHA! Moment. I suggest the reason we didn't have data on the negative impact of re- opening of schools is this crisis. America must prioritize pandemic management and abatement until COVID-19 is managed exactly the way we manage the flu virus. BTW, hand washing and disinfectant wipes always needed to be mandatory in school settings, folks.

To the scientific and medical communities: lets not use America's public schools as a massive test / guinea pigs for your theories based on insufficient short-or-long term data, especially when long-term COVID-19 data apparently means 12 months or less.

Unless, can it be...there is actually more robust data because of the research being done ...in China?!? Ah, there's a Catch-22 for the books, explaining that somebody was actually thinking ahead of last year's contagion ( sadly intentional pun, see movie of same name). Dr. Fauci and newly "released" COVID-19 Federal government team ( CDC/ NIH), your thoughts?

Okay, FINAL WORD TO THE WISE:
America must prioritize pandemic management and abatement until COVID-19 is managed exactly the way we manage the flu virus. BTW, hand washing and disinfectant wipes always needed to be mandatory in school settings, folks. No one is saying this work will be simple, fast, or easy, ONLY ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

(c) VernonNickersonSchoolcoach 2021