The media, Democrats, and unions are pushing for schools to remain closed seemingly indefinitely, I guess due to COVID-19. But the actual facts about the virus make it clear that schools can be reopened. So what s this really about? Why are they actually trying to keep schools closed? We ll talk about all that today, including: Bill de Blasio, mayor of New York, fretting over his BLM mural that was painted on the street, while babies are shot dead in his city. Also, for our daily cancellation, long overdue, we will be canceling mommy bloggers.
00:00:00.000Today on the Matt Wall Show, the media, Democrats, teachers, unions are pushing for schools to remain closed seemingly indefinitely, I guess, due to COVID-19.
00:00:09.540But the actual facts about the virus make it clear that schools can be reopened, should be reopened.
00:00:16.140So what's this really about? Why are they actually trying to keep schools closed?
00:03:10.280I got all this, I got all this information from the American Council on Science and Health, the CDC, the National Center for Education Statistics, and an article in Business Insider.
00:03:18.220That's where I get all these statistics.
00:03:20.400Um, okay, here is the, uh, infection fatality rate for COVID by age.
00:03:28.440And you see it's minuscule for kids, school-age kids, from 0.001 for the youngest set to 0.0003 for the middle school to high school bracket.
00:03:45.040Okay, that's the, that's the mortality rate for COVID for school-age kids.
00:03:52.480Via Business Insider, the death rate for the flu in that same bracket is substantially higher.
00:04:00.000Still low, still very low, but substantially higher.
00:04:04.840So, if you've never said that sending our kids to school during flu season is a death sentence, and we're killing them, and, uh, it's a heartless and cruel thing to do.
00:04:15.540So, but you are saying that now about COVID, then I have only one question for you.
00:04:21.940When did you become such a shameless lying hack?
00:04:39.160Well, that's what you say during flu season, every single flu season, that's what you say, by your own logic anyway, that's what you say.
00:04:49.920As for teachers, uh, because that's what this is all really about, we see that the death rate for adults is also very low until you get to the 50 plus range.
00:04:58.260And then it really skyrockets at, uh, 65 plus, and many of those in 65 plus, because 65 plus is a, is a large age bracket, right?
00:05:06.600Um, many of those are going to be 75, 80, 85 years old or older in nursing homes.
00:05:13.680And, and we know that's one of the reasons, you know, the death rate for, for COVID is, is precipitously declining, even as cases go up.
00:05:23.580And one of the reasons the case is going up is because they're testing more for it, but either way, um, the death rate is going down in this country.
00:05:29.900You wouldn't know that from all the hysterics in the media, but it is, why is the death rate going down?
00:05:35.020Well, one of the reasons is that many of these States, as we have covered, as we covered extensively when it was happening, many of these States intentionally set COVID infected people into nursing homes, and it just decimated the nursing home population.
00:05:49.320Um, and they're not doing that anymore after months of doing it.
00:05:53.660Finally, they've been shamed into stopping.
00:05:57.020And what do you know now that we have actually successfully protected the nursing home population, the death rate is, is declining.
00:06:10.700So that's, that's, those are the, the, the death rates, uh, by age group.
00:06:15.000What's the average age of teachers though?
00:06:17.920You know, do, do we have, um, a majority of, of 65 year old teachers?
00:06:22.620Well, no, the average age for teachers in America, according to this graph is 42.
00:06:28.020Only a relatively small minority are in the highest risk age group.
00:06:31.900What this means is that the vast majority of people in a school from the students to the teachers, administrators, um, are not at any substantial risk students, especially.
00:06:46.460And that's probably why the American Academy of Pediatrics issued guidance, strongly urging that schools be reopened.
00:06:55.760What the American Academy of Pediatrics says, and this is hardly a right-wing organization.
00:07:01.200What they say is that it's, it's better for the kids and healthier and safer for them if we send them back to school.
00:07:07.160I want to read a little bit from what the, um, the, that group has to say.
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00:09:00.920This is from the NPR report on the American Academy of Pediatrics.
00:09:04.300As a nation's pediatricians have come out with a strong statement in favor of bringing children back to the classroom this fall, wherever and whenever they can do so safely.
00:09:13.220The American Academy of Pediatrics guidance, quote,
00:09:15.680strongly advocates that all policy considerations for the coming school year should start with a goal of having students physically present in school.
00:09:22.180The guidance says schools are fundamental to child and adolescent development and well-being.
00:09:26.200Uh, the AAP cites mounting evidence that transmission of the coronavirus by young children is uncommon, partly because they are less likely to contract it in the first place.
00:09:35.580On the other hand, the AAP argues that based on the nation's experience this spring, remote learning is likely to result in severe learning loss and increased social isolation.
00:09:44.160Uh, social isolation in turn can breed serious social, emotional, and health issues.
00:09:48.360Um, child and adolescent physical or sexual abuse, substance use, depression, and suicidal ideation, it cites as, uh, as particular risks.
00:09:57.840Now, all of this said, okay, are there risks involved in opening schools?
00:10:27.500Anytime it happens, anytime it happens, launching into this whole dramatic production, but they never explain what they would prefer to see happen, except in very vague terms.
00:10:39.660They'll say something like, well, it needs to be better.
00:11:44.380Most of the people who go with option two, even if they won't quite say it, um, explicitly that it does appear that option two is what they want.
00:11:55.820Keep schools closed indefinitely, even if that means for years, however long it takes for the virus to go away.
00:12:02.400Um, and by the way, before I get to that, uh, another dodge that you'll hear from people is to say, well, we need to wait until the virus is under control.
00:12:11.920We have to wait until the, the, the curve is flattened.
00:12:15.060Well, we did, we did flatten the curve and we are getting the virus under control, especially when it comes to the death rate, which is declining.
00:12:21.520But the point is that whatever we do, even if the curve, whatever magical curve we're talking about, if it, if it goes away, if we get it under control, whatever that means in your head, if it's still out there and there's no cure, then whenever you reopen, it's probably going to start surging again because it's still there.
00:12:41.920So whatever you do to get it under control by hiding in your house, it's because you're in your house, whatever you leave your house, it's still going to be there.
00:12:50.100And then it's going to reappear and, and, and, and it's going to happen again.
00:12:52.900The only way to avoid that happening completely is to just stay in your house until there's a cure, a vaccine.
00:13:00.640So we go back to really it's option one option.
00:13:03.620Either we are getting back to our lives when the virus is still out there or not.
00:13:08.900It has to be one or the, one of those two, right?
00:13:13.500Now, most of the people that would apparently go with option two, keep the schools closed indefinitely, are also invariably the people who would say that the school experience is vital to the growth of our children, vital to their development and their maturity and their very lives.
00:13:30.700So they're willing to potentially give up on a whole generation of children, give up on their education because they're scared of getting sick.
00:13:44.260The other irony is that although I am positioning myself, I guess, on the reopening side of things, that's not how I feel about it, about, about schools.
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00:15:27.980Now, talking about sending kids back to school, the irony is that although I'm taking the position of being in favor of opening them up again,
00:15:36.400I actually don't think that public schools are essential to the growth of children.
00:15:41.440I think they're often an impediment to growth.
00:15:43.520I think that our education system is a disaster, and it destroys more children than it helps.
00:15:49.580So, you know, I am here trying to hold the other side to its own standard, to its own rhetoric.
00:15:55.000But as far as my own perspective goes, I think kids can do just fine without the public school system.
00:15:59.200So, I'm almost arguing, you know, I'm trying to do a favor for the other side, I guess, in saying let's get the schools open because the kids need it.
00:16:12.060That's what they're supposed to be saying.
00:16:13.640The problem, though, of course, is that when it comes to shutting down the schools, the real problem is that our whole society is built around the public school system.
00:16:25.620The broader societal structure is made so that it's essential to have free daycare, eight hours a day, five days a week, nine months a year.
00:16:37.720The biggest hurdle, then, if you're shutting down schools, is to adjust to accommodate the loss of that daycare system.
00:16:49.000But as far as the kids themselves, and that is a serious problem for a lot of families.
00:16:53.780There's no dismissing or discounting that.
00:16:57.520You know, if you're a two-income family, if you need two incomes to stay afloat, and you can't afford a private school, what are you going to do?
00:17:06.140Now, I've heard different things, but it has been a very serious, very hard, even disastrous time for a lot of families because of that issue.
00:17:15.820As far as the kids themselves go, though, on the other hand, on the matter of education in and of itself, homeschool is better for them anyway.
00:17:26.040So, you know, maybe that's the silver lining here.
00:17:28.600The school system is saying, you don't need us.
00:17:44.760And then we go and take charge of our children's education again, which wouldn't be such a bad thing.
00:17:50.040Now, again, I have always been a proponent of moving away from the factory assembly line system of education where we put all the kids into this system and, you know, this cookie cutter thing that they're supposed to fit into.
00:18:07.980And we stuff 30 kids into a classroom and we have it handled by government employees.
00:18:12.140I've always said that we need to move away from that as a society.
00:18:15.300Now, I think that ideally we move away from it gradually so that society has time to adjust and families can adjust.
00:18:23.040Doing it all at once like this can be disastrous.
00:18:26.600And that's what we're going through right now.
00:18:28.020But the point is that the schools are the ones saying, apparently, that our kids don't need them.
00:18:34.740And leaving aside all the concerns with, you know, who's going to take care of your kids during the day when it comes to education, I guess my answer is I agree.
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00:23:15.080Right, like there's this one, the racist note left on the car windshield gambit.
00:23:22.200There's the racist graffiti oftentimes sprayed on a garage or side of a house or somewhere else.
00:23:28.640There's the racist note on the receipt, the fake racist note on the receipt.
00:23:34.820That's maybe my personal favorite genre of the hate crime hoax.
00:23:37.840There's, of course, the racist noose, obviously.
00:23:42.220There's the racist note on a Starbucks cup is another one.
00:23:47.020And then there are sometimes people, there's the genre-bending, genre-defying, more ambitious efforts, like the Jussie Smollett, for example.
00:23:55.700You know, the thing is, I appreciate the Jussie Smolletts.
00:23:58.360I do to have that ambition and to be a little bit more inventive.
00:24:04.240Although, you know, you could argue that his hate crime hoax was derivative because all he really did was combine a few of these other genres and throw them together in kind of a grab bag sort of way.
00:24:14.040There wasn't much of a compelling narrative there.
00:24:19.040But I appreciated the effort, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
00:24:21.580But really, when it comes down to it, my thing is, no reason to get inventive.
00:24:26.540You call me old-fashioned, but I like these quaint, you know, a little cliched genres.
00:24:32.880So if you're going to go with the hate crime hoax, I say stick with the classics.
00:24:59.620So no reason to put some effort into it.
00:25:01.880And usually we're good for about one a week now from at least one of these genres.
00:25:07.320And, you know, it's a lot of fun, a lot of fun.
00:25:10.900But remember, America is systemically racist, okay?
00:25:14.100We have actual genres of hate crimes, but America is systemically racist, right?
00:25:19.220Number three, I thought this was also a lot of fun.
00:25:22.180Tweet from Ilhan Omar says, income inequality is the greatest determinant of your health and life expectancy.
00:25:28.580Our economy needs to work for the many, not the few.
00:25:31.820The really interesting thing is that, you know, Ilhan Omar and the other people in Congress, AOC, you know, other members of the squad, as much as they talk about income inequality and how concerned they are with it,
00:25:46.740you know, they're making $174,000 a year as members of Congress, which is well over $100,000 more than, significantly more than doubled the average American salary.
00:26:00.820So they could lead by example and call for Congress to impose significant pay cuts on itself so that the salaries of our congressional members reflects the average American salary.
00:26:13.160And then at least you're doing your own part to solve the income inequality problem.
00:26:18.080But they're not doing that, funny enough.
00:26:21.040You know, they're not interested in that.
00:26:23.620And also, Ilhan Omar, she apparently, allegedly, has been funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars from her campaign to her husband's consulting firm.
00:26:35.440It seems like she's, not only is she not doing things to solve the income inequality problem, but she is going out of her way to perpetuate that problem by making her own income all the more unequal to everybody else's.
00:26:53.380Really, really, really strange how it works.
00:26:55.500I mean, it's almost like, call me crazy, it's almost like these people don't give the slightest damn about income inequality at all.
00:27:02.160You know, you would almost think that, wouldn't you?
00:27:06.220Number four, and as the wheel turns, another name change is being demanded.