When the San Antonio City Council Oversteps and Tries to Fix a Problem It Caused

“If the Covid era doesn’t make one suspicious of government, it’s hard to imagine what would. Two years after state and local officials—egged on by federal disease doctors—started inflicting massive burdens on U.S. children, reports of the ineffectiveness of mandated public health measures and their destructive side effects continue to roll in.”

The sad fact is, we’ve KNOWN since the very beginning of the coronavirus/covid-19 spread who most needs the attention: senior citizens and those born with compromised immune systems. Children, fortunately, have been the most lightly affected demographic (keep in mind we’re talking about a 99+% survival rate overall).

Whatever happened to “do it for the children,” or “what about the children?” When did that become “what about the adults?”, when we’ve had a lifetime to make decisions for ourselves, about our future, our health? How selfish of those of us with a modicum of influence and/or power to shirk all that responsibility and bill it to our kids!

Yet here we are, with the San Antonio city council spending taxpayer dollars to fix a problem that government shutdowns (the SA CC called it “Stay Home Work Safe”), NOT the #pandemic, caused. And with a misplaced sort of enthusiasm no less, as “one of the rare occurrences where city government can have a direct influence on education.”

Really? Is that what we want, for the entity that caused most of the problems of the last two years, to have more of a hand in ‘fixing’ them?