Debate
Debate: Be it resolved that school closures should never be used to stop the spread of COVID-19
In June 2021, Ari Bitnun, Andrew Morris, Jennifer Grant, Colin Furness, and Martha Fulford debated a notion that has once again become the subject of intense dispute as Canada sees a huge spike in COVID-19 cases: whether schools should never be closed as a means of limiting the spread of COVID-19.
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Since the vaccinated are more likely to catch covid 19 and the flu, there is no need to close schools providing that the children not not vaccinated. Covid 19 mRNA injections weaken a child’s immune system, even if the kid is prevented from going to school. That is why, you will see increased incidence of bird flu, polio and measles in children, as well as other diseases that make it seem that closing schools is needed,,,it is not. A bird flu vaccine may actually increase the case rate for bird flu–and that is why some reactive people feel it is logical to close schools preemptively. Do you due diligence. Note that disinformation is information that is contradicts the ruling authorities. Galileo therefore promoted disinformation in his time; keeping schools open is today’s disinformaiton. Since no one else has cited evidence for their views, I won’t either. However, you can find reference many studies supporting my position on x.com versus on Google which actively censors ‘disinformation’ as I just defined.
If I could, I would invite these people to come and spend a day in secondary school. Teens refusing to wear masks, or to wear them properly. Huge numbers of students in some classes. Students intentionally coughing on people, as a joke. No social distancing. Some education staff have health issues and many are over 60 yrs old. Students survive having schools closed every summer. They will survive these short term shutdowns, as well.
They should be closed! While youngsters may not be as susceptible as adults to infection, they can still be carriers so potentially spreaders of COVID through interactions with each other then at home! One of the biggest sources of flu every year is the spread from schools to the community.
I believe they should be closed for short periods when the infection rate is high. Children with compromised immunity could die and if children are infected they can spread it to other people. We still do not know the long-term effects.
School closures haven’t been about protecting the kids, or the teachers. If they were the lockdowns would have been used to vaccinate and create ventalation and smaller class sizes. School closures have been about protecting the decrepit health care system.
The best solution is to fix the healthcare system instead of making children sacrifice their learning and development.
School cannot be safe. That is not possible. Participating in society comes with risk. It is not our job to protect out kids from life it is our job give our kids the best we can offer so they can build a life worth living. We have no right to steal this from them in order to protect the healthcare system we failed to fund appropriately