'Some Democrats still can’t quit their obsession with pandemic lockdowns, including the ones that damaged children the most.' -ZacharyFaria
Rep. Jamaal Bowman asserted that “if we would have kept schools open during COVID … people would have died.” His argument was that, sure, children were not at risk, but their teachers"may have some kind of immunocompromised situation going on" and that children would have infected their family members, communities, and everyone else because they"travel."“COVID killed over 1.13 million Americans,” Bowman said.
— Congressman Jamaal Bowman July 27, 2023 Bowman bases this on absolutely nothing other than his view that children are little disease vectors. He offers no data to back up his claim that more people would have died from COVID if schools had remained open. In fact, then-Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said in February 2021 that teachers could return to school safely before being vaccinated against COVID.
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