Broadwaybabyto

We’re not just failing to protect kids from Covid - we’re normalizing sickness in schools.

Kids are being encouraged to go to school with lice, diarrhea & more. We’re reversing decades old peanut bans despite more kids having life threatening allergies.

Chronically ill kids or those who mask are experiencing bullying - many are being pressured into removing their masks by ADULTS.

The kids are NOT alright.

Can we do better? How do we convince our institutions, governments and public health of the need for clean air in schools, paid time off for education staff and the importance of not punishing kids for staying home when sick?

How can we help other adults realize that bullying kids for masking or otherwise protecting their health is NOT the answer?

I think it starts with acknowledging there’s a problem. We should all remember “Cara”… the young girl who masked for her mom who was undergoing chemotherapy. She was pressured to remove her mask at school, caught covid and gave it to her Mom who subsequently died. Cara’s life - like the lives of so many children who’ve lost parents to Covid - will be forever altered. She will never be the same again.

We should be encouraging kids to protect themselves and others. Help teach them that they’re not an island and that being part of a community means looking out for other people.

Society crumbles when we don’t take care of one another.

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Bonus Back to School Edition: Keeping Kids Covid Safe

A look at the struggles that Covid aware parents (and children) are facing as we head into another school year. The increase in bullying, peer pressure and mocking for masking is a BIG problem.

The Disabled Ginger
Sep 8, 2024 at 2:46amWeb
Show threadMike WaghorneSep 8, 2024
@broadwaybabyto One could say that these adults are grooming kids for Covid.
Show threadJayne 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈Sep 8, 2024

@broadwaybabyto

I wonder if part of the drive to keep children in school, regardless of their health and welfare, is to ensure their parents are available for work 🤔

Show threadBroadwaybabytoSep 8, 2024
@TCMuffin I actually included that in my article -
It’s the only rational that makes sense to me. Absenteeism from work is a big issue since we’re completely ignoring a pandemic - can’t also have parents staying home with sick kids. It’s awful.
Show threadjustsethallcapsSep 8, 2024

@broadwaybabyto That's the American way, were all taught that even if you're sick, you can still come in if you're not too bad, right? Of course kids are being taught the same way.

We all hoped that covid would leave a permanent mark on our society in the form of greater contagion-consciousness, but this isn't our first pandemic, and it's not the first time we forgot either...

Peer pressure will make some children do anything, their life depends on fitting in

Show threadRiley S. FaelanSep 8, 2024
@broadwaybabyto With a respectful tip of my tinfoil hat, perhaps it's a GOPsters' systematic campaign to tear down the reputation of schools.
Show threadBroadwaybabytoSep 8, 2024
@riley anything is possible these days! Though I don’t think many countries are bothering …
Show threadAlexander 😷Sep 8, 2024

@broadwaybabyto "We’re reversing decades old peanut bans despite more kids having life threatening allergies. " ... What, WHAT?

I'm sure all the people who clutched their pearls at me for daring to call eugenics by its name will find this perfectly reasonable, though.

Show threadBroadwaybabytoSep 9, 2024

@alxndr one of the rationals given was there’s too much complacency when there’s a ban and this will ensure kids and teachers are more prepared with epi etc.

So you know -
Let’s make those disabled kids work harder to not die! So infuriating. You can address complacency without removing the ban ffs

Show threadAlexander 😷Sep 9, 2024
@broadwaybabyto Absolutely, what a nonsense rationale. This sounds 100% like more anti-prevention backlash.
Show threadPurpleSep 9, 2024
@broadwaybabyto @alxndr According to this argument, seat belts should be banned from cars because that will ensure that people drive more carefully...
Show threadAlexander 😷Sep 9, 2024
@PurpleShadow @broadwaybabyto ☝️
Show threadMichael BuschSep 8, 2024

@broadwaybabyto @b_cavello

"two Canadian provinces announced their plan to remove the Peanut bans which have been in place to protect kids with peanut allergies for decades. Peanut allergies can be airborne and are life threatening - so we’ve always told parents not to send their kids to school with anything that has peanuts in it."

That is terrifying.

Show threadBroadwaybabytoSep 9, 2024
@b_cavello @michael_w_busch it’s just nonsensical to me. We’re really at the “you do you” phase where we can’t even say people have to go without peanuts for a few hours to save a kids life
Show threadmranSep 9, 2024
@broadwaybabyto
America won't even protect our children from bullets, why would we protect them from peanuts or viruses?