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Why are conservatives hell bent on sending kids back to school?

I thought public schools were greasy little marxism brain washing factories? lol
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Because they treat school as a defacto baby-sitting service; it frees up mothers (or primary parenting fathers) to go back to work. That keeps people earning and off the dole, and it keeps profits and economies circulating. Then the government gets into less debt over social services.
Essentially, conservatives value financial prosperity over health, life and death. They don't mind a 1% death rate (or that many survivors of the disease have long-term health problems and sometimes disabilities and brain damage,) as long as the economy thrives.
NoahB · 26-30, M
@hartfire lol i agree. but its rather myopic. If all the parents get sick from their kids it will recripple the economy over and over and over again
Chevy454 · 46-50, M
Yes!!!@hartfire
@NoahB True. I've already seen that pattern happening here. Kids become the source of community transmission - younger people catch the virus at a greater rate in the subsequent waves.
Ynotisay · M
@hartfire I think it's clear that lost lives are considered collateral damage by some.
@Ynotisay Unfortunate - but yes - exactly the same as attrition in war. :(