The Sky Is Green

By Tammy Derouin

There has been a widely accepted method of dealing with sickness and disease throughout history; isolate and quarantine.  These basic steps work so well, we use them to help prevent the spread of the common cold.  If not followed, you may be able to trace your new found misery back to a possible starting point.  Perhaps someone you work or associate with has made it their mission to cough up a lung.  Even the puppet press reminds us during cold and flu season to stay home if we’re not feeling well.

Thanks to lax policies and open borders, we are dealing with much larger threats.  But, what if we were dealing with a large scale outbreak of the common cold?  Would we abandon the common sense do’s and don’ts to prevent infecting others?  Would it make sense to consider such basic measures for Ebola? 

What if a school, outside of your district, had a very large outbreak of the common cold?  Students who attend the affected school are still allowed to enter your school and participate in daily activities with your child.  The administration claims that the children have a greater risk of contracting the illness if the exposed school children were prevented from entering your school.  You are then informed that your school administration will not prohibit vehicles from the infected school, from entering your school property.  Apparently, it could somehow hinder the transportation of medical personnel and supplies to the infected school.

Now, just to make this even more ridiculous, let’s say it has been discovered that the barrier, which once surrounded your school, has been allowed to deteriorate.  Anyone, from an innocent child, to members of a rival school who want to steal your mascot and vandalize the property, has unobstructed access to your school. The administration doesn’t enforce visitor registration at the main office.   Illegal intruders are also immediately eligible for free school lunch and other benefits, no ID required, not even to vote, but I digress. 

The school security guards want to secure the perimeter.   Every time they make an attempt to secure it, the administrator threatens them with a lawsuit.  Eventually, the security guards are sent out of the district, to the school with the infectious outbreak. The perimeter remains unprotected; illness, school rivals and predators of every type have open access. 

The administrator assures everyone that everything is under control.  He did say there was little chance of the illness reaching our school.  Oops, bad example.  But he also said it was difficult to contract.  Just to be clear, it will never be his fault if you become ill.  The administration has already put defensive measures into place; the proper procedures weren’t followed.   The administrator and his staff continually refuse to protect the children.  Didn’t he take an oath to do just that prior to taking office?  He not only gets away with continually putting the children at risk, he manages to blame the parents and those who ran the school before him for the problems of the school and community.  See how great sandbox political correctness works?  It redistributes misery equally among all school districts.

An attempt is made to calm the parents and the community by sending a video message, but not to your school but rather to the out of district school.  Unfortunately, some of his advice contradicts advice given by the school nurse.  The administrator creates a new medical position; the Common Cold Authority.  Outbreaks will be tracked and appropriate measures will be taken to insure the health and wellbeing of the children and community.  He appoints the maintenance superintendent because…because the sky is green.  The newly appointed medical/maintenance advisor fails to appear at the first two meeting.

How do you think parents and the surrounding community would respond to an administration turning common sense upside down?  How would blatant disregard for the safety and wellbeing of the children and surrounding community go over?    There would be outrage.  I’m guessing everyone including the school board, superintendent, school principal and anyone else involved in such reckless behavior would be fired immediately.

 

I’m tired of being stunned by this administration.  Every day brings unbelievable actions or lack thereof to the surface.  Because of our history in accepting the lies of this administration, we have given them the confidence to move forward with another type of deceit.  We are now being told the sky is green and the grass is blue, and we’re expected to believe it.  I didn’t want to believe that Americans would actually accept the transformation of fact to fiction.  What’s next, 2+2 = 5?

“If we isolate these countries, what’s not going to happen is the disease staying there.  It will spread more, all over Africa and we’ll be at higher risk.”

Tom Frieden