Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms

[Roland99]

Health directors told to keep quiet as Fla. leaders pressed to reopen classrooms
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/20200807/health-directors-told-to-keep-quiet-as-fla-leaders-pressed-to-reopen-classrooms

As Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed this summer for schools to reopen, state leaders told school boards they would need Health Department approval if they wanted to keep classrooms closed.

Then they instructed health directors not to give it.

Following a directive from DeSantis’ administration, county health directors across Florida refused to give school boards advice about one of the most wrenching public health decisions in modern history: whether to reopen schools in a worsening pandemic, a Gannett USA TODAY NETWORK review found.

...

“When we voted to reopen schools, I’ll be honest and tell you I did it because we are under an executive order to do so,” Marc Dodd, a school board member in Lake County, said last week. “Do I think they’re safe? Absolutely not.”

moRon #DeathSantis is in lock-step with the criminally negligent trump admin and needs to be held accountable! This is insanity!

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R. Pure insanity. n/t

[Iliyah]

2. It's going to get worse and many children .. .

who will needlessly get infected, even sick and gawd forgive die because of lunacy like desantis and others following the death brigade of shithole because money is more important than lives.

[lark]

3. DeathSentence is going to see this totally blow up in his face.

When there are insufficient teachers available to teach and few kids in the classrooms or those that are there have no adult around school will be closed and chaos will reign supreme - which is what his masters drumpf/PUtin told him to make happen at election time.

[wendyb-NC]

4. Damned criminals.

[niyad]

5. Those f'n, complicit, cowardly health department officials need to be brought up on charges.

[Illumination]

6. OH YEAH!...like FL "leaders" know more than Health Directors? NOT! Hmm...where have I

heard this before? That would be the Murderer-in-Chief! This is a receipe for disaster! Gov. Ron DeSantis & others need to resign or be removed from office!

[Mr. Ected]

7. When my kids were school aged, they carried every little bug home with them

Not only are these parents putting their children in harm's way, they are inviting covid into their households. History tells us that the parents will likely catch it too. Expect a mushroom cloud of this pandemic to rise above the states of Florida and Georgia.

[JDC]

8. We don't care if kids die. I do, you do, but collectively as a country

We do not care about our children. School shooting after school shooting. Malnutrition. Poverty. Education. Kids in cages. Health care. A pandemic. Nothing moves us unless it is some BS religious ideology about UNBORN children, even at the detriment to mothers. Then there is a stand to be made. Otherwise, we don't give 1 shit about them. Just like we don't give 1 shit about our fellow citizens/Americans/humans on earth. We are a shit culture and reap what we sow.