United by their beliefs about COVID and about nefarious “ideologies” allegedly infiltrating the district, the slate hopes to wrest control of the schools from those they view as political rivals.
Most of the time I have enjoyed reading The Laramie Reporter. However, after this horribly one-sided, your-opinion, article, I will not be reading this any longer and will unsubscribe. This was a very biased article and therefore, I cannot trust anything you write in the future.
Jeff Victor is a dishonest liberal masquerading as an unbiased journalist. The bias seethes out of every word he writes. Here is an example: Victor wrote that these "right wing" candidates are united by the "false belief that pandemic threats were overstated or nonexistent". This belief isn't false. In 2020 there were about 49.3 million kids in America ages 6-17. Between 1/4/20 and 10/29/22 there were 944 deaths from covid in those age groups and that's if you believe all of those deaths were actually from covid. That breaks down to 0.0019148073% so was the threat overstated regarding kids? The numbers definitely say yes. The CDC also reported that the masks kids were wearing to school ended up only being 2% effective against preventing spread but more importantly, the ACSD took that medical decision out of the hands of parents, where it should be, and made it themselves. That decision caused what may turn out to be irreparable harm to those kids. Suicides have increased dramatically, not to mention the incredible harm to their educational and social development. In other words, the cure was worse than the virus and this current school board is going to be held accountable at the ballot box.
It's true that children are less likely to personally suffer and die from COVID-19. But they are just as capable of spreading the disease and they live in a community with adults and older adults who are substantially more likely to suffer and die. As I made sure to note in this story, you can take any policy position you wish, but the facts of the pandemic are what they are. The virus has killed at least 52 people in Albany County. If you reject those numbers, you are doing so because you cannot square them with your political narrative — not because there's any actual problem with the numbers. Our death tolls are more likely undercounts.
Your argument about kids getting covid at school and spreading it to adults as a reason to mask them is disingenuous because they could get covid anywhere, not just in school, as could adults. Yes, people died from covid in this county, as they did in every county in America but the masks, as we see from the CDC's own numbers, were not at all effective in preventing spread and clearly did more harm than good to those kids, regardless of anyone's politics. This is about kids, a school board that made decisions about those kids contrary to the wishes of their parents and those who disagreed with those decisions seeking to supplant them in the election next week and I hope they do.
Most of the time I have enjoyed reading The Laramie Reporter. However, after this horribly one-sided, your-opinion, article, I will not be reading this any longer and will unsubscribe. This was a very biased article and therefore, I cannot trust anything you write in the future.
Jeff Victor is a dishonest liberal masquerading as an unbiased journalist. The bias seethes out of every word he writes. Here is an example: Victor wrote that these "right wing" candidates are united by the "false belief that pandemic threats were overstated or nonexistent". This belief isn't false. In 2020 there were about 49.3 million kids in America ages 6-17. Between 1/4/20 and 10/29/22 there were 944 deaths from covid in those age groups and that's if you believe all of those deaths were actually from covid. That breaks down to 0.0019148073% so was the threat overstated regarding kids? The numbers definitely say yes. The CDC also reported that the masks kids were wearing to school ended up only being 2% effective against preventing spread but more importantly, the ACSD took that medical decision out of the hands of parents, where it should be, and made it themselves. That decision caused what may turn out to be irreparable harm to those kids. Suicides have increased dramatically, not to mention the incredible harm to their educational and social development. In other words, the cure was worse than the virus and this current school board is going to be held accountable at the ballot box.
It's true that children are less likely to personally suffer and die from COVID-19. But they are just as capable of spreading the disease and they live in a community with adults and older adults who are substantially more likely to suffer and die. As I made sure to note in this story, you can take any policy position you wish, but the facts of the pandemic are what they are. The virus has killed at least 52 people in Albany County. If you reject those numbers, you are doing so because you cannot square them with your political narrative — not because there's any actual problem with the numbers. Our death tolls are more likely undercounts.
And literally two days ago, I was accused of planting a story for the Republicans. So this idea that I'm just a liberal mouthpiece is laughable. https://wyofile.com/jail-suicides-spur-transparency-concerns-in-albany-county-sheriffs-race/
Your argument about kids getting covid at school and spreading it to adults as a reason to mask them is disingenuous because they could get covid anywhere, not just in school, as could adults. Yes, people died from covid in this county, as they did in every county in America but the masks, as we see from the CDC's own numbers, were not at all effective in preventing spread and clearly did more harm than good to those kids, regardless of anyone's politics. This is about kids, a school board that made decisions about those kids contrary to the wishes of their parents and those who disagreed with those decisions seeking to supplant them in the election next week and I hope they do.
What CDC numbers are you talking about? Genuinely curious
How'd that go, holding them accountable at the ballot box? Glad that reasonable people still outnumber conspiracy theorists