Schools get the brunt of latest COVID wave in South Carolina

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In the past few weeks, South Carolina has set records for COVID-19 hospitalizations and new cases have approached peak levels of last winter. Classes, schools and entire districts have gone virtual, leaving parents frustrated and teachers quitting weeks into the school year.

Since ending South Carolina’s state of emergency on June 7, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster has maintained that parents alone should decide if children wear masks in schools, even as
the state’s new cases soared from 150 a day on average to more than 5,000.

The Republican-dominated Legislature added the provision that effectively stopped most school mask mandates despite guidance from their own state health and education officials, who have said the statewide mask ban in schools took away one of their best tools to stop the spread of COVID-19.

“I simply refuse to aid and abet the government takeover of personal health decisions by politicians and bureaucrats who clearly can’t manage this as it is — and some of them make it worse by lying to us along the way,” said Sen. Shane Martin, a Republican from Spartanburg County.

“Last week an anti-masker said to me,
‘It’s sad that my children are being asked to protect yours. It’s not their job. That’s your job,’” she told board members.

https://apnews.com/article/business-health-education-coronavirus-pandemic-south-carolina-1c2fc1fec7a7a714ac36909ee1367448

[SheltieLover]

1. Covidiots

Poor kids!

[captain queeg]

2. What a surprise. It's a little surprising. I'm sure they don't mind killing other people kids.

But you’d think they’d care about their own.

[GoCubsGo]

3. Already two kids dead in my county.

School has only been in session two weeks. Twenty-five percent of all students are now in quarantine. I was in the grocery store on Thursday morning. There was at least on guy with a school-age kid wandering the aisles, no masks. I have little doubt this boy was not in school because he was supposed to be quarantining. But, that's okay, because our fucking goddamn moron of a governor says his brain-dead father knows what's best for his spawn. Fuck them all.

Have I told y'all lately how much I HATE this fucking hellhole of a state?

[crickets]

4. "It's sad that my children are being asked to protect yours."

What human being says this? I am blown away anyone could think it, much less say it, and not expire from shame.