I’ll fix it for you. Everyone has a right to refuse work. Work is usually a volunteer service. U volunteer your time and abilities for pay. Not everyone has a right to get paid while refusing work.
They need to grow a backbone and get out of their jammies and back in the classroom..... They're vaccinated, and they can wear a tyvek suit and as many masks as they so choose if they're that afraid......I'm sure it would be much cheaper to purchase each teacher a full biohazard suit, than it would to continue "virtual learning" or masking and testing students. Not to mention the irreversible physical, emotional and psychological damage that's continuing to be done to this generation of children, adolescences, teens, etc that will have lasting affects for an undetermined amount of time......No one will know the actual damage done for years to come...
Teachers are parents too. They want to protect their families just like other parents. The blaming the teachers is why they are walking out. You, Lori Lightfoot, are not acting in good faith
I think the parents and the mayor need to realize that these are teachers NOT babysitters. These teachers want a safe work place just like all the parents do at their jobs. This push do get people back to work no matter what is another symptom of capitalism in decline
IKR? The very same people accusing everyone else of being "commie" over masks, believe they are entitled to a job and free day care - ie teachers. SMDH
@Marie Smith I’m actually commenting on the OP who noticed how one sided this episode was regarding Chicago teachers. Not saying anyone is controlled, just backing the OP up and acknowledging their view. Sorry if you took it any other way. I also acknowledge the media at large is very good at this, which is also relative to OP.
@Marie Smith completely agreed on all counts. Also, this show does a great job of getting many important people on and I want to see/hear what they have to say.
I feel that way all the time. It is as if Abbott and Costello are running the country. Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know is on third and why is in the outfield.
Teachers are essential and some of the most disrespected and disregarded. Create safer environments, protocols and policies, show some concern. Yes, students are important. Yes, families need support. However, teachers are people too, teachers have families too. We all know that covid tracking is not what it should be, sanitation is not what it should be, everyone is not following safety guidelines, with school doors are open, families will send kids sick or not, and teachers will not have the support of administration.
I agree. I also understand what the Mayor was saying. I used to be friends w a teacher & she used her union in really antagonistic ways that were simple power plays, rather than simply work w getting things resolved. Dont know if thats universal... Im just also flustered that we cant just get kids to mask. Its ridiculous that its an issue at all, let alone relative to kids. Its Fascist techniques that have created this insanity about not doing common sense things. Its so illogical. There are elements in reality that remind me of the Monte Python Movie "Life of Bryon"...
So well said, same goes for all essential front line workers like hospital workers, which some have Unions also. Hazard pay may motivate along with Biden allocations of improving air circulatory systems. Wonder how much of that Cares/Rescue money actually reached school districts in Red Governing states?
Also teachers aren’t soldiers. They can walk out and “abandon post” if they feel their conditions aren’t being met. It’s utterly dehumanizing to treat our educator with such callous disregard. Either pay the teacher more or pay the parents to stay home. But you can’t tell people they have to be in a work environment they don’t feel safe in.
If the teachers are afraid to have in school classes, then maybe the school district should do everything in its power to ensure they are working in a safe environment. It's that simple. Make in class teaching SAFER.
You're right. The states do have a duty to provide a safe working environment and accommodations, but we're going on year two of the pandemic. You'd think they would have found a system that keeps kids in school without making schools a hazard to people venerable to severe Covid-19 complications.
Some People are convinced that working a dead end job is more respectful than staying home with the kids! Not realizing that the time spent away from the house, leaves unattended children! Staying home Should be just as important as a job! When both parents had to start working, that's when things started falling apart! It Should Not be this way! We Should have a "Basic Income' for People who have children and can't afford to work outside of the home!! It's a Full Time Job! No matter what People think! It's The Most Important Job! Stuff Happens in life! That's the way it is. We Need to value the role of Homemaker a lot More!
As I travel full time, I see grocery stores in every state. Nine times out of ten I am the oddball wearing a mask. The general public cannot complain about COVID still being a factor when they fail to wear a mask in public.
I'm glad that more urban Oregonians wear masks religiously still but it is getting more lax and it's those people causing the problems bit blaming Biden
@@It_is_Tyler Medical masks do work also there is the rate of exposure which none of us is following. That’s the actual science. No one else side of the scientific and medical community don’t even know what the rate of exposure means.
@@It_is_Tyler masks prevent atomization that infects others - N95 will provide protection to the wearer - they work - vax works - it is the best we can do
Lightfoot says, "Schools are safe"!! She must haven't heard of (ALL) the businesses and staff members that ended up with this virus on the job, on the cruise ships, restaurants ext.. Parents are crazy if they trust a building just because it's a school!!
Schools are safe ? Hmm 🤔 Just because it’s a School Building does not comply, that it’s a safe place ! No place is safe, None ! Of course home schooling does Not replace schools, teachers, etc. A Working mother has no choice but to stay home, to tutor her children, or the Dad ! Someone has to stay home with the children and someone has to go to work, to bring home the bacon ! That Mayor is Not focusing in on issues that the families are facing, teachers as well, any school staff ! ( Especially the children ). She is Not looking at the over all picture , at hand ! We are talking about human life !
All of them should have been gone long ago on the right and left. Almost all of them except a few progressives are bought and paid for by the wealthy through legal bribes. The right wing politicians are the worst as they have driven totally off the cliff and want a dictatorship now,. The left wing Democrats are just the old school Republician criminals from 20-30 years ago concerned only with enriching themselves and following their wealthy donors orders. The news outlets except for a few progressives ones are nothing but PR wings for corporate propaganda.
Just last week at my wife’s school, there were 5 new cases of staff being infected with COVID. They already had shortages of staff and teachers. She doesn’t feel safe I think they should go back to remote learning for at least 2 weeks. Btw my sister and her children tested positive 3 days ago. She thinks her kids got it from school. Covid infections are crazy high.
Five people including two kids in my child’s class have Covid and they still force our child to go to school. But I will tell you this that if my son gets Covid from school and he dons so will everybody else who is responsible for my son‘s death or that I’ve you responsible, I don’t really care. People don’t seem to understand, that you can still love your child while being poor, but your Child can’t love you back when he’s dead because you force him into school and use them as a daycare just so you can go out and make a buck. Just so you can buy your crack and your liquor and your cigarettes and your gambling and partying. And all the other bad habits that people have that they don’t realize their hurting families and others around them.
I'm at a private nursery school (my room is unvaccinated). Last week we had two of our nine classrooms shut down and move to Zoom class because of Covid exposure. Every class but one had some sort of Covid exposure. I had 4 of my 15 students left by weeks end and lost one of our three teachers out due to her daughter having to quarantine with symptoms. So, now, in my class, we have 2 teachers taking care of 4 kids in person and one teacher teaching 11 via Zoom. If next week continues like last week, we'll be doing Zoom. But we could have done Zoom last week without exposing almost 150 kids to Covid. At least give it a couple weeks to see what the effects of Omicron are instead of finding what the effects are on us.
They don't care about people catching it, the corporations own the government and have decided to let it burn through the general population. It is not about the kids or teachers, it's really about the parents. If the parents catch it they will be out if work which hurts profits,.I know it's ignorant as the parents will also catch it anyway but humans never think long term when it comes to profits, it's always about today.
@@jeris33 Not sure what you are trying to say and any correlation to flat earth insanity. The very people who are saying we need to be remote are the teachers. They are not willing to be guinea pigs just to keep profits increased, imagine that.
Anyone who didn't think corporations would willfully misinterpret cdc guidelines to force people back to work sooner than intended is being willfully ignorant themselves, and probably shouldn't be on TV if they are that woefully nieve
It's the corporations who had the government lower the standards in the first place. We are corporate controlled, which is to say the wealthy bought all the politicians long ago. All the news outlets except for some progressive ones are nothing but PR businesses for right and left wing corporate interests designed to spew propaganda out.
Corps don't want people back at work.. if corps can keep people out of work another 6 months..it'd probably destroy the remaining medium and small businesses
Footnote: I'm pro vax but not mandates. I AM, however, a firm believer in masking, especially while in a crowded store, two feet from a person who needs THEIR job (just as much as those small business owners we kept hearing about in the beginning of this pandemic, did.) If people had only worn those GD masks, even if just while in our faces, it would NOT be like this now. Now, because people cared only about their "rights," they (and others) are waiting an hour just to buy a pack of gum, and those employees who are out sick get to try to pay doctor and hospital bills on a Walmart paycheck. Our latest slogan? "Happy to Help." Yeah. Just know that in the back of our minds, we are thinking that all unmasked customers need to get in the back of the lines and all those who wore and wear masks can get checked out first. ;)
I am not a teacher, but we as a society do not support them enough. People wonder why less women are having kids- education isn’t supported, expensive childcare and healthcare etc. People are put last while the 1 percent roll in excess.
Yeah and the democrats supported all this bs starting with Clinton's free trade agreements with the world there for getting low wage labor and destroying the middle class all the manufacturer Jobs are gone overseas makeing the rich richer and the middle class shirking.
I’m a retired teacher and there’s no way I think that teachers-or children -should be in school now because this virus is raging. Better protocols and testing need to be in place.
@@msbao517 A cold? I have a young relative who is now unable to walk and confined to a wheelchair for life because of covid. The specialists know far more than you do.
I think the fact that parents need to choose between work, and looking looking after their children during a global pandemic is not a teacher strike issue, it's an unregulated capitalism issue... a failure and lack of social safety nets.
What about an overpopulation issue? People having child after child just bc their bodies allow them to, without thinking whether they are even mentally or financially prepared for them. Or the environment they are bringing said children into.
@@sleepnomore6065 not covid. There are better ways than not caring if you get people sick or not to control a populations size... like better education and family planning.
@@grrlinduluth the population growth in north america has been on the decline for years because of better education, but mostly because of a declining economy for the not so wealthy... nobody can afford to raise a kid. it's the population growth in india and places like that now that are the problem... also the more people there are, the more people there are to have more babies... you can't solve overpopulation by making underpopulated places have less babies or giving people a deadly virus by going out of your way to do nothing about it... and north america is underpopulated compared to europe and asia.
they don't need student's to learn, they need their jobs back that's why they're trying to push "go back to school" policy. It's a very hard time for everyone specially financially, but you guys should prioritize safety than anything else - you won't need education if you're already dead.
You won't get safety guideline policies from the Republicans. They strive only for oligarchy & autocracy. They're so threatened about the new color & diversity.
Re: Education, you can't compare in school learning with virtual learning. The children lose immensely by educated guided instruction and miss out on social interaction with their peers in which affects them emotionally.
It's not illegal if it's a union-sanctioned revolt. I'm not sure Mrs. Lightfoot knows about Illinois state law, but this goes back to the 1920's Unionization Rights act.
@Bob Richards I'm guessing you've never worked for the Government. Unions protect there members from the whim of politicians who will sacrifice you in a heartbeat.
@aarqa Yet retail/food workers and many others are expected to show up every day. Teachers lives are no more important than anyone else's. They need to show up for workor be fired
Omg Chuck Todd just sits there while the mayor says the safest place for kids is in school while we're in the midst of THE WORST OUTBREAK since this pandemic began. Utter incompetence. This is shameful behavior from both the media and the politicians!
Kids home alone for 8 to 10 hours a day with no food is not safe. Look, I get it. They should be tested and vaccinated. But learning is much easier in a classroom. Not every kid is safe at home in her district. The underlying social and economic problems haven't been fixed. Child care and health/mental/elder care need to be addressed. Single parents have to work and they often can't afford childcare. Kids aren't always safer at home.
@@veneroso3337 I understand but should our schools be looked at as a nanny service? Perhaps, after school programs can expand their hours so children have a place to go to during the day while their parents are at work. I don't feel the teachers should compromise their health.
@@plusorminusandtime I definitely agree with you. Talk is Always cheap. But walking the walk. Is on a whole new level. Just like keyboard warriors who call people names. But when they see these hulking people they call names on keyboard. They shrink and mind their own business. 😀. 😂 lol. Seen it every time.
@@burntbronze.9082 Hey man if they want to go show everyone how easy it. Then do it. It is easy for someone, who has never taught a class, to call it "easy". I hope they fire all the teacher and then watch the system implode just like the hospitals and the vaccine (gene therapy) mandates. For the record it is hard to take you seriously as you hide behind a fake name with a new account (10/10/21).
Teachers walking off the job isn't illegal they just not gonna put up with the lack of safety and responsibility from the board of education and the pay isn't enough to justify putting up with this mess some of us teachers do love our job but not to the extent to risk our wellbeing
Thanks Chuck - Yes, yes the CDC needs to get its act together and if the current head of the CDC does not have the experience or fortitude to do the job correctly she needs to be replaced. You can not be the voice of authority and science and be wishywashy and confused.
It’s really not confusing. It’s just people mad at only 5 days of isolation. It’s based in science. It’s silly that foot doctors and sociologists are all chiming in on the CDC. She’s explained it very clearly why no test is needed and why only five days. People just want to remain scared and “safe” but being overly cautious for no reason is just as harmful and stupid. It’s like someone driving 40 on the freeway. CDC director is doing a phenomenal job.
Thank the Lord he is no longer president. What a dreadful excuse for a person he is. He is the personification of all that is evil. And he is still sowing his evil seeds all over America. He will eventually be hoisted by his own petard. Thankfully he has no power over what is to come. 🐍🐍🐍🕸🦟
After the school year started, our two school-age kids got sick (non-covid) once or twice. I got them tested, and we kept them home from school while sick and/or waiting for test results. I left recorded messages on the school absence line. The school never bothered to contact us back to ask any questions, to inform us what the rules were, or to thank us for doing the right thing. Later my wife and all three of our children caught actual covid (confirmed by testing) from my wife's older daughter. Again we got the family tested, again we kept the kids home. We did get a couple brief calls from the local health department, but again never a word from the school. No questions about timing or contacts or anything. No thanks. No advice. No active coordination about the kids' schoolwork. Everything is left up to us... our judgement, our initiative.
@@HeinzGudarian Well what I'm saying is, there is no plan in place to coordinate this stuff? No thought of being proactive? We'll just leave community safety and the continuity of every student's education up to the judgement and virology knowledge of the dumbest parent in the district? We'll just kick back and hope they "call again"?
@@Fuzzybeanerizer I live in Massachusetts. I have two high schoolers. They go to two different schools in two different towns. One school had said that they will stop reporting to parents every time that they find a case and now just give a weekly update. This school is a collaborative school for kids with assorted disabilities and mental health conditions. Kids K-12 attend this school in separate sections of the school based on their age. The school has less than 300 students. My other child attends a vocational school. His school nurse sent out an email saying that they will no longer be doing contact tracing. They want us to do it ourselves. So if my kid gets sick, am I supposed to contact students in his classes or that he has lunch with, who I don't know and don't have contact info for? Yes, apparently that's what they think we'll be able to do. The nurse said that there were too many cases for the school to keep track of themselves. That's because last I heard, my state has a 20% infection rate. I wonder what they're doing in the states that are worse off than us?! Don't even get me started on the CDC changing their guidelines to 5 days! This conveniently happened after big business complained about how long the quarentine/isolation was for covid. After doing everything that we're supposed to do since 3/2020, I like most, like you, are just disgusted! Hope your family is on the way to recovering from covid.
@@marywood8794 We actually took advantage of Michigan's "schools of choice" laws last fall to move our kids to what we considered to be a more responsible school district. The district we live in announced last August that they would not be calling off school under any circumstance until 25% of the kids were actually staying home with covid. They openly said that 25% is the state's cutoff for funding for each school day... in other words, even then it was only a matter of the schools not receiving state money, no thought about overloading hospitals or killing off local nursing home residents.
@@Fuzzybeanerizer So what's your percentage now? Here we literally had kids walking out of schools in Boston protesting not being able to go remote, at least temporarily, while there were too many sick kids and staff. Last week there were 1000 staff out sick in the Boston schools. The week before there were 500 substitute teachers lined up. The second day back from school vacation, there weren't enough substitutes to cover the absent teachers. The superintendent of schools was teaching an elementary school class! Still Governor Baker won't change his mind even until this surge is over. Of course, he can do as he likes, because he has decided not to run for re-election! This is the first time that I've completely disagreed with him during this covid mess. Previously, if he took a stance and then something changed, like not enough healthy teachers to run the schools, he would reconsider his decision and change it.
Lori Lightfoot: your disdain, disrespect and lack of support for teachers is disgusting. Your condescension for the profession is awful. Help teachers stay safe during Covid. And quit treating them like your hired help. It's that simple.
A news anchor caught it last Christmas. He received the shot's and booster. He caught it again on Christmas. Something must not work. He already built natural immunity and had all three shots.
Mayor Lori we need to protect our teachers from COVID let’s make testing for every child every Monday and keep safe distance in classes better be safe than sorry
I agree. I was subbing in Fairfax county, va. First, social distancing was promised. Then there was no social distancing AT ALL. No ventilation in classrooms.Teachers taking masks off; students taking masks off, all through the day. Nobody washing hands. It wasn't safe.
@@drepta98 No, people are in hospitals who have been vaccinated. Vaccines keep you off a ventilator. They don't keep you from getting sick or getting long covid, even death
2 years and two different presidents and nothing has changed since the beginning of this pandemic . i refuse to agree with America the greatest country
Here's a question that I'd like to ask you all as a non-American observer outside of America. Perhaps America is expecting too much because it doesn't realize how perilous the situation is. Nobody wants to consider that we; ..and I mean humanity might be over our heads. People are mad at the scientists and the politicians because life is very inconvenient and we're "losing money". They expect the scientific community to have all the answers and the politicians to fix this as if they're hired to fix our patchy lawns. This was a BRAND NEW virus (it still is in the grand scheme of things!) Omicron could have been like Ebola, but we were lucky. We can STILL get an "Ebola" as we're by no means out of the woods! I don't think this is something that any human alone can fix. The POTUS can only act within a system. A system takes years to fix if it doesn't work. No Republican, Democrat, or Independent can fix Covid alone. The sooner Americans realize this and stop blaming an individual expecting a miracle-worker, the sooner they can start supporting and working together and with the world to prepare for and survive this powerful challenge. This challenge is not America's alone. Look at other countries. Look at China who was the best at managing this virus. They're having outbreaks too now! So Omicron is a real challenge. Be easier on America and start supporting those who are trying to manage this and realize how hard this is for the scientific community still learning about this changing virus. They are building the airplane while flying it with the weather conditions constantly changing. Don't be whiney passengers. There will be turbulence. You need to put on your "seatbelts" when the sign is lit even if it was just a precaution. You should cooperate and be thankful you're still flying. America needs to be kinder to itself. Nobody would be so angry if they knew the danger we are all in.
I just told a friend that both parties a going down. Its the top 1 percenters who have manufactured this whole thing worldwide. They know what is going on. They have built million dollar bunkers all over the world. They know the SHITF is about to hit and they and a select few are the only ones to survive world wide.
@@gmac8586 I was keeping my eye out for the question but didn't see it. I mean no harm by my comment and if received that way I hope I can be more clear. I agree with most of your points wholeheartedly! This issue of the pandemic is much larger than the current blame game. Which frankly gets us nowhere. Speaking as an American, I am open to solutions that will help all of us survive this pandemic with parts of our lives intact. However, as you poignantly stated, the system is broken and there isn't time to fix it at the moment. I have no idea what the way forward is for our country. Hopefully, through worldwide efforts a solution can be found. Because Covid is here to stay.
My question to the Mayor of Chicago is, why is it ok for unvaccinated children to go to school for 8 hours in a day but unvaccinated people cannot eat in a restaurant for an hour?
I work for a school system in Indiana. I do not blame the Chicago teachers at all. People are scared. I am constantly having to tell PARENTS to put on a mask before they even enter the building. Even though we have enormous signs on the doors that say they are required! And you have parents who are refusing to vaccinate, and they are sending their kids to school putting everyone they come into contact with at risk! I even have to tell some staff to put on a mask! The biggest mistake our country made was politicizing this pandemic. And we can thank the Republican Party and their leadership for this! Mayor Lightfoot says she trusts the science. Well, the science and hospitalizations say otherwise!
@@alisongreen7576 I wish that I knew the answer to get everyone to listen. Our school is open and in session. For the most part, most of the staff abides by the new rules that we have to live by. All it takes is one person to be positive and spread it around though.
@@bhumphries1360 True- but I think teachers now are like medical staff- they are essential workers- not just because kids to be socialised and educated but also so parents are free to go to work themselves. So teachers should get vaccinated and boosted and wear masks if that's the rule in their area or if they want to, and then just accept that there will be still be a risk- or we will never get everything restarted. I think we all just have to accept that a proportion of people have been radicalised and will not be reasonable and we just have to ignore them and protect ourselves as best we can. As more of them die, more will see reality and get vaccinated- or they will get infected and either die or recover and have immunity that way. Will they infect some vaccinated or vulnerable people and make some of them die unnecessarily? Yep- but we can't lock them all up and it's a waste of time and energy to argue any more. Long term I think home schooling should be illegal except for a few children in exceptional cases- and then must be regulated. Letting children grow up in fundamentalist Christian/far-right/anti-science/cult-like bubbles with zero outside influence is the long term threat to democracy.
Try actual transparency, a teacher shouldn't find out (like I did) from two of her students in the same high school class that they had positive covid 19 twice since September. I was never once informed either student was positive once never mind twice.... Never contacted, never asked to get tested, never even given the choice to get tested as a precaution!!!!! And the school didn't even need to disclose the students names.. all they had to do was say hey out of the 10 students you have that are quarantine two or whatever number was positive. Never asked me any questions, never contact traced me.... Nothing... I have no access to testing weekly for my job... (I am not saying mandate, but I should have a choice too with available access)
First, it sounds like you have a problem on the local maybe school board level. It is dangerous and irresponsible not to inform teachers that someone in their class has tested positive. It jeopardizes the entire school's safety and guarantees transmittal of the virus onto unsuspecting vulnerable people. On a side note, all children MUST get certain vaccines/shots in order to attend school which means all anti-vaxxers have been vaccinated if they attended school in the US. Yet they want to argue against a vaccine for a deadly mutating virus that have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in less than two years?
One of my vaxxed friend now has blood clots. Another vaxxed friend now has a spot on her lungs. Another vaxxed friend has lost too much weight and her hair is falling out.
@Ivory Pearl I'm so sorry to hear about your friends. I pray they get better. It's sad that the pharmaceutical companies are free from liability should people get sick.
Don't thank him yet. He freely accused Asian Americans of bringing COVID-19 to the USA, and sided with Trump policies. If Trump wasn't as extreme, Kissinger would gladly *_keep voting for his policies._*
I wish they would leave more time for the panels or maybe just show a highlight reel. It always seems to cut out when people are just starting to interact with each other after their opening statements.
@@orionsshoe2424 Because only radical fools want to have there taxes raised and destroy energy. We have over 6% inflation the highest in 40 years. Radicals, instead of fixing things that are not broken. Want continue to try and make working Americans pay for unnecessary social programs. They have a over a trillion in unspent covid relief and want to spend more. Machin and Sinema are the only to smart people in the party stopping morons from making life even harder....
@@KatKrueger As you cheer for the Democrats to raise the cost of living. I'm part of the death cult. I don't remember under the gop everything being so expensive. All I know it is tax time thanks to Republicans I'm going to get a nice little chunk back. The gop never tried to take my tax payer money to house illegal immigrants. Nor would the have me pay for some idiots literal arts degree.
@@KatKrueger Death cult? Democrats have more covid death under their presidents run. Thank Biden for that. Summer of love had more death then the big lie day. Thank democrats. Both r protecting us from the boogey man. Or is it our right and job to protect ourselves?
I hate hearing "kids are safer in school than at home".... There is something so wrong with that. Mandates and such? The smart folks know what to do and will do what is necessary, while the ignorant won't. No one can control that, mandates be damned. It is what it is. At some point I would just tell everyone to do whatever they think best for them. Because that's what they are going to do anyhow. Ignorance always prevails. Until they don't.
@@jeris33 Not people thinking for themselves, smart people thinking for themselves and not falling into the traps of a mob. I can't say I haven't been fortunate during all of this because I get disability and I'm isolated anyway, so when this pandemic started I was already used to being alone and socially distant. What scares me is when they try to force people to do things or not do things because of the pandemic, when nature doesn't care about our laws or our way of life. The greed of the rich at the expense of the poor.
Teachers are fighting for students and teachers. Its impossible for it to be safe for one and not the other. Teachers never said in school was the safest place.
All viruses stay in this world for the rest of our lives. Many people get vaccinated for influenza and pneumonia every year but ended up in hospitals especially at an older age. The Chickenpox virus, all of us vaccinated since an early age, reappears later in life as Shingles.
Now isn't that interesting. Your office ( Lightfoot) can and should work remote but teachers well their lives are irrelevant and they should show up in spite of conditions. To suggest that there is a significant difference in justification is absolutely inhumane. Teachers interact with anywhere from 250-4000( larger schools) students/staff daily. How likely does anyone think it is to maintain 6ft in a building of 3,000+.
@@joiperkins7243 Lightfoot??? I’m not associated with him. He’s at OSU. I’ve never been with OSU. I only know about public school teaching. Not University.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot seems like a real piece of work. ‘We shouldn’t be pausing….but I’ll be right here locked in my office if you wanna do TV interviews”
I am sick of 20th Century mentality Chuck Todd beating up Joe Biden for things that are not his fault. It is past time for NBC to find someone who lives in 2022 not 1992 to do Meet the Press.
45:40 I don't know what state she lives in, but you can't get a Washington State ID for free. It costs $54 and is good for 6 years. As for actually getting the ID. There are hundreds of counties in this country - most of whom are located in Southern and Northern Plain/Mountainous states- where there is no brick and mortar building to get a license. Those counties also tend to have poopy Internet access, making it difficult to get an ID online. These are real obstacles that the states seem reluctant to resolve.
I live in Georgia for over 20 years. Every vote that I've been to, it was extremely easy and fast to vote for everyone. The line was about 15 to 30 minutes long even in the busiest voting time.
What the problem is not one politician will ever doing anything for the people! It’s all about the money long as there pockets get big they just don’t care!! Remove politicians and let American take over what is ours!
Amazing how Americans expect the Office of President to be Merlin the Magician. "Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country" JFK
@@specom Did i really just read that properly? Fascist slogan? Clearly you have been very misinformed or rather uninformed in recent times. Feel sorry for you. Please research and think critically before you share your thoughts on a public platform. It will save you the embarrassment.
Hmm so trump is responsible for everything he does Biden isn’t responsible for anything he does Because dems are never responsible for any of their actions and they blame republicans for any of their actions
@@jamilburn5957 Doing what seems like the most right thing that doesn't work out as well as we'd like is different from willfully doing the wrong thing over and over again. Someone has to hold Reps accountable for their actions, as they never will or do.
Nobody should be coerced to follow CDC'S GUIDELINES, but... PEOPLE HAVE TO USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO DECIDE WHAT'S BEST TO DO IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC. 😷
Having test lines outside makes sure people need another test the following week. Got people waiting hours outside to see if their healthy enough for work .ide say we lost the point entirely.
Grow up. You need that covid test to tell you you're sick then it's a mind trick otherwise you would live a normal free life. No muzzle no distance from loved ones. We all still will die one day and they are robbing us of all our freedom. Our country of productivity. Testing doesn't change anyone's outcome. If you're really sick you go to the hospital. Let's talk about what % of people that test positively are in the hospital or die? What % wouldn't need to be there but take a test and freak out lol. The real jump in kids how many deaths are we really talking? They say new cases everyday thats bs they aren't all just new new cases they are people who had it more then once at this point more then twice with vaccine without its something we need to stop focusing on so much. You all look like clowns 🤡
Get vaccinated. Countries with highest vaccinated rates around 80~90% have really low positivity rates ranging from 1~3% positive test rate. US that’s half not vaccinated has some of the highest rates in the first world. Could have been over this right now, but the unvaccinated are needlessly continuing the pandemic - filling up the hospitals & hogging up the resources from everyone else…Cruise ship: 6,000 people. 98% vaccinated (120ppl not vaccinated). Only 50ppl on the ship tested positive- That’s only 0.8% of the whole ship. Vaccines work.
Truth is such an overused word in an environment that chokes the truth. If you are partisan or otherwise biased, your truth is subjective. Subjective truth is not truth.
I don't believe so, but they need to start thinking about it. Back in the 1960's when I was in 'Nam' we would have called it combat pay for being in a combat zone.
If hospitals are this busy , why not bring back the naval hospital to new york and flordia. If we are overcome with hospitalizations you'd figure we'd be doing evrything to get more beds/vents/ etc. You know like when we had a 10th of the cases and we had field hospitals built in central park
@@flowerchild3686 they just want to complain about something get paid to do nothing thats your job you do it. Grow up. You need that covid test to tell you you're sick then it's a mind trick otherwise you would live a normal free life. No muzzle no distance from loved ones. We all still will die one day and they are robbing us of all our freedom. Our country of productivity. Testing doesn't change anyone's outcome. If you're really sick you go to the hospital. Let's talk about what % of people that test positively are in the hospital or die? What % wouldn't need to be there but take a test and freak out lol. The real jump in kids how many deaths are we really talking? They say new cases everyday thats bs they aren't all just new new cases they are people who had it more then once at this point more then twice with vaccine without its something we need to stop focusing on so much. You all look like clowns 🤡
@@2813227 The virus mutates everytime it finds an unvaccinated host. It will find you one day, and on that day it might not be a lesser virulent variant. So if you don't care about dying now then make sure you stick to that later.
No cabinet members were responsible for their blunders: Afghanistan withdrawal issues, inflations or finance, supply chain (transportation) issues, gas price hike(laughing incident), southern border issues, foreign affairs issues, healthcare, COViD control issue, education, etc.. Mr.Biden has to reshuffle his incompetent cabinet members now for him and for the country!
@@kjsytnmbcz003 he only seems to come to life s little when he talks Trump, and when there is a little girl close by. His doctors have the toughest job of all. They need the proper daily cocktail of stimulants without killing him. It's very rare that they can keep him somewhat coherent after 11 am
The teachers are right, safety first! How are kids around other kids that can be spreaders of Covid-19 be the safest place for kids?? That makes NO SENSE!!
I support the teachers. No job is worth your life. Remote teach or how the parents teach their kids. If the governments had locked down properly all this covid will be over by now.
What is wrong with Americans? Too many expect an answer immediately and to be served in seconds. Science didn't suddenly start moving like lightning just because everyone became selfish and expected instantaneous gratification. Quit complaining and blaming. Start helping. Other countries don't have this Covid problem, it is an American arrogance problem.
Maybe we should do like Germany is planning on doing ! Send out cops to arrest people to get their shots, or else, they go to jail ! You tell me how many folks are going to take time, to test themselves ? At Home ? No way !! Some might, others won’t bother !
@@It_is_Tyler you are a liar. A liar! There is no scientist who has ever described the virus as having a set survival rate - to the 100th percent. No disease ever at any time in any medical publication has anything other than a broad guesstimate at survival. No scientist knows exactly how many have had it, survived it and died from it. And. How can you assign a specific survival rate - when the death rate per capita varies so widely around the world? Stop lying. It's unconscionable to lie about something like this. You could be dead tomorrow over your own stupidity. Then you will have to face your maker over the lies you told.
Last part... Easier to vote than ever??? I am Dutch. How bad was it?? We do not have lines. Anywhere. We do not have to register to vote. Every legal citizen above 18 is automatically registered and gets their ballot mailed. We do have to ID. But ID's are mandatory anyway for more things. And if you can not afford one, you get financial help with this. Voting is not a partisan thing here. You do not want to look like a third world country that refuses their citizens to have a say. And selecting who can vote? That was a thing of a distant past, when the rich and powerfull selected who was good enough to get to vote. We changed that. I think we learned from America back then that it could be done. Too bad Americans try to lose their rights.
How is anyone but all those that refuse to follow recommended precautions at fault? Why do they keep blaming President/CDC? This variant is spreading like crazy, and just about everyone was over this pandemic and has been slacking on mask wearing, let alone social distancing, since summer of last year.
Guys, it is true that you are going through tough times...but at that times you need to unite, fight together, compensate for others who migh have mada a mistakes, but not criticise them evety time. Objectively speaking, it's better to reallocate all energy, time, money you're putting into criticism to the fight with covid. Saving lives should be the priority.
As long as the news media keeps telling all of America just what you guys are saying, then Donald Trump will continue to grow his ego thinking he is God's Savior For the republican party. For goodness sake's, if you all would quit talking about him I think he would end up going away. If he doesn't hear his name 1000 times a week in the news then he gets worried. Let him get worried guys. Just give him up for one month and see what happens and I bet you would be surprised.
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I rather be safe than sorry teachers you have my support 💯
If the American people feel like education is becoming too expensive they're welcome to try ignorance
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There is no safety guaranteed, it's just the right and wrong place at the wrong or right time.
All nonsense!! get back to work. Just like everyone else.
@@johnyarnell8033 👍🏽
Teachers have every right to refuse to work in a unsafe environment
Correct, without pay.
I’ll fix it for you.
Everyone has a right to refuse work.
Work is usually a volunteer service.
U volunteer your time and abilities for pay.
Not everyone has a right to get paid while refusing work.
@@duramaxdad only fans pays more than teaching. Fixed it for ya 😀
They need to grow a backbone and get out of their jammies and back in the classroom..... They're vaccinated, and they can wear a tyvek suit and as many masks as they so choose if they're that afraid......I'm sure it would be much cheaper to purchase each teacher a full biohazard suit, than it would to continue "virtual learning" or masking and testing students. Not to mention the irreversible physical, emotional and psychological damage that's continuing to be done to this generation of children, adolescences, teens, etc that will have lasting affects for an undetermined amount of time......No one will know the actual damage done for years to come...
I stand with the TEACHERS, protect them and the students!!
You can carry and transmit the virus if you are vaccinated
Whereas I trust the science
The parents are pushing for the kids to go back. All those single moms want their babysitting service back
If people think education is becoming too expensive they should try ignorance
Teachers are parents too. They want to protect their families just like other parents. The blaming the teachers is why they are walking out. You, Lori Lightfoot, are not acting in good faith
This is America 🇺🇸. Its America's Problem Not Just the President. We NEED TO WORK AT COVID TOGETHER.
I agree but as long as we have idiots who refused to get the vaccine or even wear masks that will be difficult.
Vaccinated people are contracting omicron and the long term effects are still not known yet Lightfoot.
Who is Lightfoot???
@@janiekcarney5482 Did you watch the show? She's the mayor of Chicago.
I think the parents and the mayor need to realize that these are teachers NOT babysitters. These teachers want a safe work place just like all the parents do at their jobs. This push do get people back to work no matter what is another symptom of capitalism in decline
IKR? The very same people accusing everyone else of being "commie" over masks, believe they are entitled to a job and free day care - ie teachers. SMDH
I can't believe they don't have a teacher on to represent the other side. That was so one-sided. Disappointing!!!
Right? Shame on Chuck Todd
It was a piece “pushing” people to one side of the argument. Meet the Press (and MSM in general) is very good at this.
@Marie Smith I’m actually commenting on the OP who noticed how one sided this episode was regarding Chicago teachers. Not saying anyone is controlled, just backing the OP up and acknowledging their view. Sorry if you took it any other way. I also acknowledge the media at large is very good at this, which is also relative to OP.
@Marie Smith completely agreed on all counts. Also, this show does a great job of getting many important people on and I want to see/hear what they have to say.
He who controls the media controls the narrative
Sometimes I feel like no one knows what they are doing🤷🏽♀️
I feel that way all the time. It is as if Abbott and Costello are running the country. Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know is on third and why is in the outfield.
They know exactly what there doing confusion inspires fear easier to get people to do what you want when there scared.
You would be right love
@@mikeypolstein272 jackpot
Teachers are essential and some of the most disrespected and disregarded. Create safer environments, protocols and policies, show some concern. Yes, students are important. Yes, families need support. However, teachers are people too, teachers have families too. We all know that covid tracking is not what it should be, sanitation is not what it should be, everyone is not following safety guidelines, with school doors are open, families will send kids sick or not, and teachers will not have the support of administration.
I agree.
I also understand what the Mayor was saying.
I used to be friends w a teacher & she used her union in really antagonistic ways that were simple power plays, rather than simply work w getting things resolved. Dont know if thats universal...
Im just also flustered that we cant just get kids to mask. Its ridiculous that its an issue at all, let alone relative to kids. Its Fascist techniques that have created this insanity about not doing common sense things.
Its so illogical.
There are elements in reality that remind me of the Monte Python Movie "Life of Bryon"...
It’s clear that Lighfoot cares nothing about the folks working in schools.
So well said, same goes for all essential front line workers like hospital workers, which some have Unions also. Hazard pay may motivate along with Biden allocations of improving air circulatory systems. Wonder how much of that Cares/Rescue money actually reached school districts in Red Governing states?
@@caseybc6342 did Winegarten, teacher union give Chitown Mayor a "lecture"?
Teachers who refuse to return to the classroom need to be fired immediately. It’s not like they haven’t already had a two year paid vacation.
Also teachers aren’t soldiers. They can walk out and “abandon post” if they feel their conditions aren’t being met. It’s utterly dehumanizing to treat our educator with such callous disregard. Either pay the teacher more or pay the parents to stay home. But you can’t tell people they have to be in a work environment they don’t feel safe in.
If the teachers are afraid to have in school classes, then maybe the school district should do everything in its power to ensure they are working in a safe environment. It's that simple. Make in class teaching SAFER.
That's the issue, you can't make it safer. Elementary my dear, GERMS!
@DaKrawnik420 yeah I agree we should do all those too. I’m so happy to see cities and states doing that 😁☺️
You're right. The states do have a duty to provide a safe working environment and accommodations, but we're going on year two of the pandemic. You'd think they would have found a system that keeps kids in school without making schools a hazard to people venerable to severe Covid-19 complications.
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God bless this! We the people!
I love how the ONLY way to educate children is in a way that leaves parents free to exploit. I mean work.
Some People are convinced that working a dead end job is more respectful than staying home with the kids! Not realizing that the time spent away from the house, leaves unattended children! Staying home Should be just as important as a job! When both parents had to start working, that's when things started falling apart! It Should Not be this way! We Should have a "Basic Income' for People who have children and can't afford to work outside of the home!! It's a Full Time Job! No matter what People think! It's The Most Important Job! Stuff Happens in life! That's the way it is. We Need to value the role of Homemaker a lot More!
@@GrandmaBev64 AGREE
As I travel full time, I see grocery stores in every state. Nine times out of ten I am the oddball wearing a mask. The general public cannot complain about COVID still being a factor when they fail to wear a mask in public.
This part! I feel the same way
They don't work. Trust the science
I'm glad that more urban Oregonians wear masks religiously still but it is getting more lax and it's those people causing the problems bit blaming Biden
@@It_is_Tyler Medical masks do work also there is the rate of exposure which none of us is following. That’s the actual science. No one else side of the scientific and medical community don’t even know what the rate of exposure means.
@@It_is_Tyler masks prevent atomization that infects others - N95 will provide protection to the wearer - they work - vax works - it is the best we can do
Lightfoot says, "Schools are safe"!! She must haven't heard of (ALL) the businesses and staff members that ended up with this virus on the job, on the cruise ships, restaurants ext.. Parents are crazy if they trust a building just because it's a school!!
She's pathetic
Yeah she doesn't care about the lives and families of teachers
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Schools are safe ? Hmm 🤔 Just because it’s a School Building does not comply, that it’s a safe place ! No place is safe, None ! Of course home schooling does Not replace schools, teachers, etc. A Working mother has no choice but to stay home, to tutor her children, or the Dad ! Someone has to stay home with the children and someone has to go to work, to bring home the bacon ! That Mayor is Not focusing in on issues that the families are facing, teachers as well, any school staff ! ( Especially the children ). She is Not looking at the over all picture , at hand ! We are talking about human life !
She’s delusional. Let her work in the classroom and see how she thinks then!
Both mitch McConnell and nancy Pelosi should have resigned decades ago. Poster children for term limits .
Agree! Term limits should be in, because none of these people get it when it's time to let go and leave!
All of them should have been gone long ago on the right and left. Almost all of them except a few progressives are bought and paid for by the wealthy through legal bribes. The right wing politicians are the worst as they have driven totally off the cliff and want a dictatorship now,. The left wing Democrats are just the old school Republician criminals from 20-30 years ago concerned only with enriching themselves and following their wealthy donors orders.
The news outlets except for a few progressives ones are nothing but PR wings for corporate propaganda.
Just last week at my wife’s school, there were 5 new cases of staff being infected with COVID.
They already had shortages of staff and teachers. She doesn’t feel safe I think they should go back to remote learning for at least 2 weeks.
Btw my sister and her children tested positive 3 days ago. She thinks her kids got it from school. Covid infections are crazy high.
Five people including two kids in my child’s class have Covid and they still force our child to go to school. But I will tell you this that if my son gets Covid from school and he dons so will everybody else who is responsible for my son‘s death or that I’ve you responsible, I don’t really care. People don’t seem to understand, that you can still love your child while being poor, but your Child can’t love you back when he’s dead because you force him into school and use them as a daycare just so you can go out and make a buck. Just so you can buy your crack and your liquor and your cigarettes and your gambling and partying. And all the other bad habits that people have that they don’t realize their hurting families and others around them.
Yep same at our school and we had 400/1500 kids out on Friday.
Yes, yes just a few weeks!😷
School funding depends on kids IN the classroom. This IS a Pandemic for gosh sakes😷💙💖😇🙏
I agree.
I'm at a private nursery school (my room is unvaccinated). Last week we had two of our nine classrooms shut down and move to Zoom class because of Covid exposure. Every class but one had some sort of Covid exposure. I had 4 of my 15 students left by weeks end and lost one of our three teachers out due to her daughter having to quarantine with symptoms. So, now, in my class, we have 2 teachers taking care of 4 kids in person and one teacher teaching 11 via Zoom. If next week continues like last week, we'll be doing Zoom.
But we could have done Zoom last week without exposing almost 150 kids to Covid.
At least give it a couple weeks to see what the effects of Omicron are instead of finding what the effects are on us.
They don't care about people catching it, the corporations own the government and have decided to let it burn through the general population. It is not about the kids or teachers, it's really about the parents. If the parents catch it they will be out if work which hurts profits,.I know it's ignorant as the parents will also catch it anyway but humans never think long term when it comes to profits, it's always about today.
Shouldn't you work somewhere that believes in science? The Earth isn't flat, sorry to break it to you.
@@MrSean03839 I agree with you.
@@jeris33 I think they do beleive in science, but I think they think this is the best time for society to get infected.
@@jeris33 Not sure what you are trying to say and any correlation to flat earth insanity. The very people who are saying we need to be remote are the teachers. They are not willing to be guinea pigs just to keep profits increased, imagine that.
I support the Teachers. They shouldn’t die so another Mom gets to go to work in a safe place. Kids spread every virus.
So do fully vaccinated people.
Including the seasonal flu, I don't see teachers scared of the flu
I support no pay for no teach.
Anyone who didn't think corporations would willfully misinterpret cdc guidelines to force people back to work sooner than intended is being willfully ignorant themselves, and probably shouldn't be on TV if they are that woefully nieve
It's the corporations who had the government lower the standards in the first place. We are corporate controlled, which is to say the wealthy bought all the politicians long ago. All the news outlets except for some progressive ones are nothing but PR businesses for right and left wing corporate interests designed to spew propaganda out.
If it were a pandemic thing, I'd say you're lying, you want to see how we're doing, it's okay to feel good, and without vaccines and tests.
My husband has Covid and a nurse at urgent care gave him the misinterpreted guideline as well. Disgraceful.
Corps don't want people back at work.. if corps can keep people out of work another 6 months..it'd probably destroy the remaining medium and small businesses
Footnote: I'm pro vax but not mandates. I AM, however, a firm believer in masking, especially while in a crowded store, two feet from a person who needs THEIR job (just as much as those small business owners we kept hearing about in the beginning of this pandemic, did.)
If people had only worn those GD masks, even if just while in our faces, it would NOT be like this now.
Now, because people cared only about their "rights," they (and others) are waiting an hour just to buy a pack of gum, and those employees who are out sick get to try to pay doctor and hospital bills on a Walmart paycheck.
Our latest slogan? "Happy to Help." Yeah.
Just know that in the back of our minds, we are thinking that all unmasked customers need to get in the back of the lines and all those who wore and wear masks can get checked out first.
;)
I am not a teacher, but we as a society do not support them enough. People wonder why less women are having kids- education isn’t supported, expensive childcare and healthcare etc. People are put last while the 1 percent roll in excess.
Yeah and the democrats supported all this bs starting with Clinton's free trade agreements with the world there for getting low wage labor and destroying the middle class all the manufacturer Jobs are gone overseas makeing the rich richer and the middle class shirking.
You sound full of jealousy. Get a better education and become productive
@@jessepelley734 It is enough if you actually have one and not pretend like you are doing. Stop complaining and make yourself useful to society, scrub
@@travisgoesthere You don't know what you're talking about.
@@jessepelley734 I have an education and demonstrable skills that keep me being useful. We are not the same, scrub
I’m a retired teacher and there’s no way I think that teachers-or children -should be in school now because this virus is raging. Better protocols and testing need to be in place.
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Over a cold???? OK the flu kills more than the omicron virus. Please use your brain and research the truth
@@msbao517 A cold? I have a young relative who is now unable to walk and confined to a wheelchair for life because of covid. The specialists know far more than you do.
@@msbao517 That is so patently false, even a bot should know most of us have experienced COVID by now and can't be lied to about it.
@@cindyadkins135 some pics or proof
I think the fact that parents need to choose between work, and looking looking after their children during a global pandemic is not a teacher strike issue, it's an unregulated capitalism issue... a failure and lack of social safety nets.
What about an overpopulation issue? People having child after child just bc their bodies allow them to, without thinking whether they are even mentally or financially prepared for them. Or the environment they are bringing said children into.
@@sleepnomore6065 not covid. There are better ways than not caring if you get people sick or not to control a populations size... like better education and family planning.
THIS!!! 💯 what I’ve been saying all along!
@@AKATenn guess what,your way you mentioned hasnt worked for hundreds of years-im glad the big change is coming as far as population growth.
@@grrlinduluth the population growth in north america has been on the decline for years because of better education, but mostly because of a declining economy for the not so wealthy... nobody can afford to raise a kid.
it's the population growth in india and places like that now that are the problem...
also the more people there are, the more people there are to have more babies...
you can't solve overpopulation by making underpopulated places have less babies or giving people a deadly virus by going out of your way to do nothing about it... and north america is underpopulated compared to europe and asia.
they don't need student's to learn, they need their jobs back that's why they're trying to push "go back to school" policy. It's a very hard time for everyone specially financially, but you guys should prioritize safety than anything else - you won't need education if you're already dead.
Well said!! Cant take money to the grave either
You won't get safety guideline policies from the Republicans. They strive only for oligarchy & autocracy. They're so threatened about the new color & diversity.
Re: Education, you can't compare in school learning with virtual learning. The children lose immensely by educated guided instruction and miss out on social interaction with their peers in which affects them emotionally.
@@carolynrappaport1626 thache is fun; this is what many children with omicron will have to learn to live with
Facts
It's not illegal if it's a union-sanctioned revolt. I'm not sure Mrs. Lightfoot knows about Illinois state law, but this goes back to the 1920's Unionization Rights act.
@Bob Richards I'm guessing you've never worked for the Government. Unions protect there members from the whim of politicians who will sacrifice you in a heartbeat.
@aarqa Yet retail/food workers and many others are expected to show up every day. Teachers lives are no more important than anyone else's. They need to show up for workor be fired
@@mw548 So by your logic, because they're abusing one group, it's ok to abuse another?
@Bob Richards It’s a good thing you don’t have any say whatsoever in regards to these issues
@@mw548 No... They shouldn't. That's F'd UP!!
Shame on Mayor Lightfoot for not backing teachers! Our nation's teachers need to be safe too!!
REP. Adam Kinzinger, you are a true hero who fights for the country not for your party.
Dem. Joe Manchin is a better hero and he doesn't cry all the time.
Omg Chuck Todd just sits there while the mayor says the safest place for kids is in school while we're in the midst of THE WORST OUTBREAK since this pandemic began. Utter incompetence. This is shameful behavior from both the media and the politicians!
Are you surprised? He’s a weasel
Agreed. History will blame the media for many things; mostly, giving the orange turd all the attention he got. And all for money.
Kids home alone for 8 to 10 hours a day with no food is not safe. Look, I get it. They should be tested and vaccinated. But learning is much easier in a classroom. Not every kid is safe at home in her district. The underlying social and economic problems haven't been fixed. Child care and health/mental/elder care need to be addressed. Single parents have to work and they often can't afford childcare. Kids aren't always safer at home.
@@veneroso3337 I understand but should our schools be looked at as a nanny service? Perhaps, after school programs can expand their hours so children have a place to go to during the day while their parents are at work. I don't feel the teachers should compromise their health.
Remote learning would be the safest for kids.
Why do you need teachers? This person right here can do it all. She don't think covid is a big deal so she should do it
yes yep
@@ursamajor6347 How about you go and teach a class? Otherwise shut up.
@@ursamajor6347 Name calling isn't a logical argument. So how about it? Put your money where your mouth is. Otherwise shut up.
@@plusorminusandtime I definitely agree with you. Talk is Always cheap. But walking the walk. Is on a whole new level. Just like keyboard warriors who call people names. But when they see these hulking people they call names on keyboard. They shrink and mind their own business. 😀. 😂 lol. Seen it every time.
@@burntbronze.9082 Hey man if they want to go show everyone how easy it. Then do it. It is easy for someone, who has never taught a class, to call it "easy". I hope they fire all the teacher and then watch the system implode just like the hospitals and the vaccine (gene therapy) mandates.
For the record it is hard to take you seriously as you hide behind a fake name with a new account (10/10/21).
Teachers walking off the job isn't illegal they just not gonna put up with the lack of safety and responsibility from the board of education and the pay isn't enough to justify putting up with this mess some of us teachers do love our job but not to the extent to risk our wellbeing
Thanks Chuck - Yes, yes the CDC needs to get its act together and if the current head of the CDC does not have the experience or fortitude to do the job correctly she needs to be replaced. You can not be the voice of authority and science and be wishywashy and confused.
It’s really not confusing. It’s just people mad at only 5 days of isolation. It’s based in science. It’s silly that foot doctors and sociologists are all chiming in on the CDC. She’s explained it very clearly why no test is needed and why only five days. People just want to remain scared and “safe” but being overly cautious for no reason is just as harmful and stupid. It’s like someone driving 40 on the freeway. CDC director is doing a phenomenal job.
All I wanna hear is they passed the vote for a stimulus check
Amazing to think where this newscast would be going if Trump was President.
Glad he’s out
Thank the Lord he is no longer president. What a dreadful excuse for a person he is. He is the personification of all that is evil. And he is still sowing his evil seeds all over America. He will eventually be hoisted by his own petard. Thankfully he has no power over what is to come. 🐍🐍🐍🕸🦟
They would blame Trump for everything instead of protecting him like they do with Biden. And covid would be a lot lower under Trump compared to Biden.
2024 is coming, Trump 2.0
After the school year started, our two school-age kids got sick (non-covid) once or twice. I got them tested, and we kept them home from school while sick and/or waiting for test results. I left recorded messages on the school absence line. The school never bothered to contact us back to ask any questions, to inform us what the rules were, or to thank us for doing the right thing. Later my wife and all three of our children caught actual covid (confirmed by testing) from my wife's older daughter. Again we got the family tested, again we kept the kids home. We did get a couple brief calls from the local health department, but again never a word from the school. No questions about timing or contacts or anything. No thanks. No advice. No active coordination about the kids' schoolwork. Everything is left up to us... our judgement, our initiative.
So call again and contact an actual person.
@@HeinzGudarian Well what I'm saying is, there is no plan in place to coordinate this stuff? No thought of being proactive? We'll just leave community safety and the continuity of every student's education up to the judgement and virology knowledge of the dumbest parent in the district? We'll just kick back and hope they "call again"?
@@Fuzzybeanerizer I live in Massachusetts. I have two high schoolers. They go to two different schools in two different towns. One school had said that they will stop reporting to parents every time that they find a case and now just give a weekly update. This school is a collaborative school for kids with assorted disabilities and mental health conditions. Kids K-12 attend this school in separate sections of the school based on their age. The school has less than 300 students. My other child attends a vocational school. His school nurse sent out an email saying that they will no longer be doing contact tracing. They want us to do it ourselves. So if my kid gets sick, am I supposed to contact students in his classes or that he has lunch with, who I don't know and don't have contact info for? Yes, apparently that's what they think we'll be able to do. The nurse said that there were too many cases for the school to keep track of themselves. That's because last I heard, my state has a 20% infection rate. I wonder what they're doing in the states that are worse off than us?! Don't even get me started on the CDC changing their guidelines to 5 days! This conveniently happened after big business complained about how long the quarentine/isolation was for covid. After doing everything that we're supposed to do since 3/2020, I like most, like you, are just disgusted! Hope your family is on the way to recovering from covid.
@@marywood8794 We actually took advantage of Michigan's "schools of choice" laws last fall to move our kids to what we considered to be a more responsible school district. The district we live in announced last August that they would not be calling off school under any circumstance until 25% of the kids were actually staying home with covid. They openly said that 25% is the state's cutoff for funding for each school day... in other words, even then it was only a matter of the schools not receiving state money, no thought about overloading hospitals or killing off local nursing home residents.
@@Fuzzybeanerizer So what's your percentage now? Here we literally had kids walking out of schools in Boston protesting not being able to go remote, at least temporarily, while there were too many sick kids and staff. Last week there were 1000 staff out sick in the Boston schools. The week before there were 500 substitute teachers lined up. The second day back from school vacation, there weren't enough substitutes to cover the absent teachers. The superintendent of schools was teaching an elementary school class! Still Governor Baker won't change his mind even until this surge is over. Of course, he can do as he likes, because he has decided not to run for re-election! This is the first time that I've completely disagreed with him during this covid mess. Previously, if he took a stance and then something changed, like not enough healthy teachers to run the schools, he would reconsider his decision and change it.
The unvaccinated and unmasked are the culprits!
Lori Lightfoot: your disdain, disrespect and lack of support for teachers is disgusting. Your condescension for the profession is awful. Help teachers stay safe during Covid. And quit treating them like your hired help. It's that simple.
These people are so out of touch with real Americans.
A news anchor caught it last Christmas. He received the shot's and booster. He caught it again on Christmas. Something must not work. He already built natural immunity and had all three shots.
It's pretty obvious that the shots are the problem.
So many people triple vaccinated still getting it, and more than once.
Everyone needs to get the vaccine. We all want to feel safe and stay alive.
Don’t categorically deny anything, do all you can including remote learning! It’s foe the children! Chicago Chicago!!
Imagine seriously saying we need more immigration? Only a blind person would think we're short on cheap labor
Mayor Lori we need to protect our teachers from COVID let’s make testing for every child every Monday and keep safe distance in classes better be safe than sorry
Teachers who refuse to return to the classroom need to be fired immediately. It’s not like they haven’t already had a two year paid vacation.
If 92% of the teacher workforce is vaccinated, then why are they scared? They are protected against the unvaccinated children.
Let's not test every child.
I agree. I was subbing in Fairfax county, va. First, social distancing was promised. Then there was no social distancing AT ALL. No ventilation in classrooms.Teachers taking masks off; students taking masks off, all through the day. Nobody washing hands. It wasn't safe.
@@drepta98 No, people are in hospitals who have been vaccinated. Vaccines keep you off a ventilator. They don't keep you from getting sick or getting long covid, even death
Adam Bless You and Liz Thank You For Standing , up For America
Joe Manchin And Sinema thank you for all you have done keep up the great work.
2 years and two different presidents and nothing has changed since the beginning of this pandemic . i refuse to agree with America the greatest country
You're goofy, many things have changed, for one thing the honorable President Biden isn't in denial!
Here's a question that I'd like to ask you all as a non-American observer outside of America. Perhaps America is expecting too much because it doesn't realize how perilous the situation is. Nobody wants to consider that we; ..and I mean humanity might be over our heads. People are mad at the scientists and the politicians because life is very inconvenient and we're "losing money". They expect the scientific community to have all the answers and the politicians to fix this as if they're hired to fix our patchy lawns. This was a BRAND NEW virus (it still is in the grand scheme of things!) Omicron could have been like Ebola, but we were lucky. We can STILL get an "Ebola" as we're by no means out of the woods! I don't think this is something that any human alone can fix. The POTUS can only act within a system. A system takes years to fix if it doesn't work. No Republican, Democrat, or Independent can fix Covid alone. The sooner Americans realize this and stop blaming an individual expecting a miracle-worker, the sooner they can start supporting and working together and with the world to prepare for and survive this powerful challenge. This challenge is not America's alone. Look at other countries. Look at China who was the best at managing this virus. They're having outbreaks too now! So Omicron is a real challenge. Be easier on America and start supporting those who are trying to manage this and realize how hard this is for the scientific community still learning about this changing virus. They are building the airplane while flying it with the weather conditions constantly changing. Don't be whiney passengers. There will be turbulence. You need to put on your "seatbelts" when the sign is lit even if it was just a precaution. You should cooperate and be thankful you're still flying. America needs to be kinder to itself. Nobody would be so angry if they knew the danger we are all in.
I just told a friend that both parties a going down. Its the top 1 percenters who have manufactured this whole thing worldwide. They know what is going on. They have built million dollar bunkers all over the world. They know the SHITF is about to hit and they and a select few are the only ones to survive world wide.
@@gmac8586 This is the best outlook on this situation I’ve seen since it started. Bravo and thank you!
@@gmac8586 I was keeping my eye out for the question but didn't see it. I mean no harm by my comment and if received that way I hope I can be more clear.
I agree with most of your points wholeheartedly! This issue of the pandemic is much larger than the current blame game. Which frankly gets us nowhere.
Speaking as an American, I am open to solutions that will help all of us survive this pandemic with parts of our lives intact. However, as you poignantly stated, the system is broken and there isn't time to fix it at the moment. I have no idea what the way forward is for our country. Hopefully, through worldwide efforts a solution can be found. Because Covid is here to stay.
The doctor is 100% correct , not dying is a very important factor about the vaccines.
I'm 🤔 only 1 not to catch it at a 🥳 99 percent XAZZZ UP I'M NOT 🚫 4 died recently this Waz a Christmas 🎄 or should I say Xmas 💯👸🏾🤳🏽
I'm 🤔 only 1 not to catch it at a 🥳 99 percent XAZZZ UP I'M NOT 🚫 4 died recently this Waz a Christmas 🎄 or should I say Xmas 💯👸🏾🤳🏽
My question to the Mayor of Chicago is, why is it ok for unvaccinated children to go to school for 8 hours in a day but unvaccinated people cannot eat in a restaurant for an hour?
The sh*t is hitting the fan when Lori Lightfoot is creatively criticizing the teacher's union.
She's openly criticizing people for wanting to stay safe. She's cooked 🍳
Yeah, I thought "wait, isn't she a democrat?"
Enough is enough
I work for a school system in Indiana. I do not blame the Chicago teachers at all. People are scared. I am constantly having to tell PARENTS to put on a mask before they even enter the building. Even though we have enormous signs on the doors that say they are required! And you have parents who are refusing to vaccinate, and they are sending their kids to school putting everyone they come into contact with at risk! I even have to tell some staff to put on a mask! The biggest mistake our country made was politicizing this pandemic. And we can thank the Republican Party and their leadership for this! Mayor Lightfoot says she trusts the science. Well, the science and hospitalizations say otherwise!
But you are saying that staff are not united in following the rules- so how can you get the message to kids and parents?
@@alisongreen7576 I wish that I knew the answer to get everyone to listen. Our school is open and in session. For the most part, most of the staff abides by the new rules that we have to live by. All it takes is one person to be positive and spread it around though.
@@bhumphries1360 True- but I think teachers now are like medical staff- they are essential workers- not just because kids to be socialised and educated but also so parents are free to go to work themselves.
So teachers should get vaccinated and boosted and wear masks if that's the rule in their area or if they want to, and then just accept that there will be still be a risk- or we will never get everything restarted.
I think we all just have to accept that a proportion of people have been radicalised and will not be reasonable and we just have to ignore them and protect ourselves as best we can.
As more of them die, more will see reality and get vaccinated- or they will get infected and either die or recover and have immunity that way. Will they infect some vaccinated or vulnerable people and make some of them die unnecessarily? Yep- but we can't lock them all up and it's a waste of time and energy to argue any more.
Long term I think home schooling should be illegal except for a few children in exceptional cases- and then must be regulated. Letting children grow up in fundamentalist Christian/far-right/anti-science/cult-like bubbles with zero outside influence is the long term threat to democracy.
Try actual transparency, a teacher shouldn't find out (like I did) from two of her students in the same high school class that they had positive covid 19 twice since September. I was never once informed either student was positive once never mind twice.... Never contacted, never asked to get tested, never even given the choice to get tested as a precaution!!!!! And the school didn't even need to disclose the students names.. all they had to do was say hey out of the 10 students you have that are quarantine two or whatever number was positive. Never asked me any questions, never contact traced me.... Nothing... I have no access to testing weekly for my job... (I am not saying mandate, but I should have a choice too with available access)
Why should you be any different than nurses?
First, it sounds like you have a problem on the local maybe school board level. It is dangerous and irresponsible not to inform teachers that someone in their class has tested positive. It jeopardizes the entire school's safety and guarantees transmittal of the virus onto unsuspecting vulnerable people. On a side note, all children MUST get certain vaccines/shots in order to attend school which means all anti-vaxxers have been vaccinated if they attended school in the US. Yet they want to argue against a vaccine for a deadly mutating virus that have killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in less than two years?
BOOST this comment because this is beyond important for people to hear.
You said no one contact traced you, but they did tell you that someone in your class tested positive?
@@martalli no they did not... the students ousted themselves just this past week...
One of my vaxxed friend now has blood clots. Another vaxxed friend now has a spot on her lungs. Another vaxxed friend has lost too much weight and her hair is falling out.
@Ivory Pearl I'm so sorry to hear about your friends. I pray they get better. It's sad that the pharmaceutical companies are free from liability should people get sick.
Thanks. Please pray for them.
@@TonyaR789 I tried to tell another friend that they are free from liability but he didn't believe me. He actually became angry at me.
@@MaLiArtworks186 Wow I hope he finds out you were telling him the truth and just looking out for him. I think it sucks they are not responsible.
Thanks @Tonya R
Forget these tests it's a waste get back to Student Loans, Jobs, Climate Control
" Brad , I Uh .. Need .. Uh .. 11,780 Votes , You Can .. Recalculate ! " 😕
Jody Hice will find those votes if elected, scary times!
no..
Kinzinger is the best guy the GOP has. I lean left politically but I would vote for Kinzinger if he ran for President.
Don't thank him yet. He freely accused Asian Americans of bringing COVID-19 to the USA, and sided with Trump policies.
If Trump wasn't as extreme, Kissinger would gladly *_keep voting for his policies._*
How about Steven Seagal in 2024?
@@jamesmilichich6693- 🤣🤣🤣
That I vote for Adam!
Lightfoot, would you keep schools open if measles and polio were basically a guaranteed thing to happen to kids if they went to school?
Not the same. Covid is weak compared to children's immunity
Lightfoot sends her kids to private school.
Both of those things are vaccines that inoculate you against those diseases. This covid gene therapy isnt a vaccine.
Umm... Polio isn't spread though the air though, BTW and, yes both are vaccine-preventable
people are fed up with this administration millions amd millions are mad
Mad is a understatement
I wish they would leave more time for the panels or maybe just show a highlight reel. It always seems to cut out when people are just starting to interact with each other after their opening statements.
Yes, that segment is too short!
big facts but the media not listening they just looking at money
The mayor needs to go in the classroom and teach! Get your butt in the battle with your teachers and stop all that rhetoric!!
Sarah keeps comparing the parties like they are doing the same thing … no Sarah … no
I am an enormous fan of Adam and Liz. Way to go guys. Keep up the good work! I know it can't be easy.
I am a enormous fan of Manchin and Sinema. Way to go guys. Keep up the good work! I know it can't be easy.
@@leonardarchuleta8896 Typical daft non response by a member of the GQP Death Cult. Plagiarism is the best compliment.
@@orionsshoe2424 Because only radical fools want to have there taxes raised and destroy energy. We have over 6% inflation the highest in 40 years. Radicals, instead of fixing things that are not broken. Want continue to try and make working Americans pay for unnecessary social programs. They have a over a trillion in unspent covid relief and want to spend more. Machin and Sinema are the only to smart people in the party stopping morons from making life even harder....
@@KatKrueger As you cheer for the Democrats to raise the cost of living. I'm part of the death cult. I don't remember under the gop everything being so expensive. All I know it is tax time thanks to Republicans I'm going to get a nice little chunk back. The gop never tried to take my tax payer money to house illegal immigrants. Nor would the have me pay for some idiots literal arts degree.
@@KatKrueger Death cult? Democrats have more covid death under their presidents run. Thank Biden for that. Summer of love had more death then the big lie day. Thank democrats.
Both r protecting us from the boogey man.
Or is it our right and job to protect ourselves?
Kinzinger is a true American and Representative! He’s for what is right! Love ❤️ him
The Chicago mayor said the safest place for our kids is in school ? Is she high? W TF?
I hate hearing "kids are safer in school than at home".... There is something so wrong with that. Mandates and such? The smart folks know what to do and will do what is necessary, while the ignorant won't. No one can control that, mandates be damned. It is what it is. At some point I would just tell everyone to do whatever they think best for them. Because that's what they are going to do anyhow. Ignorance always prevails. Until they don't.
Yes people thinking for themselves has really proven to be the best strategy 😆😆
@@jeris33 - The death tolls of the un-vaccinated disagree with you.
So, so, true,!!!!!! /& Nice meeting you!
@@jeris33 Not people thinking for themselves, smart people thinking for themselves and not falling into the traps of a mob. I can't say I haven't been fortunate during all of this because I get disability and I'm isolated anyway, so when this pandemic started I was already used to being alone and socially distant. What scares me is when they try to force people to do things or not do things because of the pandemic, when nature doesn't care about our laws or our way of life. The greed of the rich at the expense of the poor.
@@komodokhan7593 - Take care, Komodo Khan. Hope your personal "normal" returns soon.
They abandoned they're post? They aren't in the army. Schools are the safest place for kids but not the safest place for the teachers.
Teachers are fighting for students and teachers. Its impossible for it to be safe for one and not the other. Teachers never said in school was the safest place.
Covid is never going away
People really don't understand that. Including people in government and the news.
Probably because its always been with us, the irrational panic is the only thing new
Correct. Waiting for endemic phase.
All viruses stay in this world for the rest of our lives. Many people get vaccinated for influenza and pneumonia every year but ended up in hospitals especially at an older age. The Chickenpox virus, all of us vaccinated since an early age, reappears later in life as Shingles.
@@susanabrown510 pretty sure you can get shingles only if you had chickenpox as a kid
People working online and at home want teachers to teach in person. How sad!!! This includes Meet the Press!!!
Now isn't that interesting. Your office ( Lightfoot) can and should work remote but teachers well their lives are irrelevant and they should show up in spite of conditions. To suggest that there is a significant difference in justification is absolutely inhumane. Teachers interact with anywhere from 250-4000( larger schools) students/staff daily. How likely does anyone think it is to maintain 6ft in a building of 3,000+.
@@joiperkins7243 Lightfoot??? I’m not associated with him. He’s at OSU. I’ve never been with OSU. I only know about public school teaching. Not University.
@@joiperkins7243 Lightfoot??? I’m not associated with anyone named Lightfoot. You have the wrong person.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot seems like a real piece of work. ‘We shouldn’t be pausing….but I’ll be right here locked in my office if you wanna do TV interviews”
That is the way the Chicago teachers union see her too.
I am sick of 20th Century mentality Chuck Todd beating up Joe Biden for things that are not his fault. It is past time for NBC to find someone who lives in 2022 not 1992 to do Meet the Press.
45:40 I don't know what state she lives in, but you can't get a Washington State ID for free. It costs $54 and is good for 6 years. As for actually getting the ID. There are hundreds of counties in this country - most of whom are located in Southern and Northern Plain/Mountainous states- where there is no brick and mortar building to get a license. Those counties also tend to have poopy Internet access, making it difficult to get an ID online.
These are real obstacles that the states seem reluctant to resolve.
I live in Georgia for over 20 years. Every vote that I've been to, it was extremely easy and fast to vote for everyone. The line was about 15 to 30 minutes long even in the busiest voting time.
What the problem is not one politician will ever doing anything for the people! It’s all about the money long as there pockets get big they just don’t care!! Remove politicians and let American take over what is ours!
What about when they sent out stimulus checks?
@@EMendonca-mp2mf you do know stimulus checks came from taxpayers money don't you?
Impeach Biden
Amazing how Americans expect the Office of President to be Merlin the Magician. "Ask not what your country can do for you - Ask what you can do for your country" JFK
Fascist slogan...
@@specom Did i really just read that properly? Fascist slogan? Clearly you have been very misinformed or rather uninformed in recent times. Feel sorry for you. Please research and think critically before you share your thoughts on a public platform. It will save you the embarrassment.
Hmm so trump is responsible for everything he does
Biden isn’t responsible for anything he does
Because dems are never responsible for any of their actions and they blame republicans for any of their actions
@@jamilburn5957 Doing what seems like the most right thing that doesn't work out as well as we'd like is different from willfully doing the wrong thing over and over again. Someone has to hold Reps accountable for their actions, as they never will or do.
It’s a virus no politician on earth could stop a natural process. It’s not Trump fault or Biden stop turning this virus into a political thing. It
Greed we won't be slaves power to the people
Nobody should be coerced to follow CDC'S GUIDELINES, but...
PEOPLE HAVE TO USE THEIR INTELLIGENCE TO DECIDE WHAT'S BEST TO DO IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC. 😷
Having test lines outside makes sure people need another test the following week. Got people waiting hours outside to see if their healthy enough for work .ide say we lost the point entirely.
Grow up. You need that covid test to tell you you're sick then it's a mind trick otherwise you would live a normal free life. No muzzle no distance from loved ones. We all still will die one day and they are robbing us of all our freedom. Our country of productivity. Testing doesn't change anyone's outcome. If you're really sick you go to the hospital. Let's talk about what % of people that test positively are in the hospital or die? What % wouldn't need to be there but take a test and freak out lol. The real jump in kids how many deaths are we really talking? They say new cases everyday thats bs they aren't all just new new cases they are people who had it more then once at this point more then twice with vaccine without its something we need to stop focusing on so much. You all look like clowns 🤡
Then get vaccinated! No lines there!
@@2813227 Stop your LYING about the vaccine!
Furthermore, these people are standing so close to each other in line so doesn't that defeat the purpose of getting tested, lol!
Get vaccinated. Countries with highest vaccinated rates around 80~90% have really low positivity rates ranging from 1~3% positive test rate. US that’s half not vaccinated has some of the highest rates in the first world. Could have been over this right now, but the unvaccinated are needlessly continuing the pandemic - filling up the hospitals & hogging up the resources from everyone else…Cruise ship: 6,000 people. 98% vaccinated (120ppl not vaccinated). Only 50ppl on the ship tested positive- That’s only 0.8% of the whole ship. Vaccines work.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Truth is such an overused word in an environment that chokes the truth. If you are partisan or otherwise biased, your truth is subjective. Subjective truth is not truth.
The teachers see so many people dying but they are being told to go to work and catch it. Do they even make hazard pay?
I don't believe so, but they need to start thinking about it. Back in the 1960's when I was in 'Nam' we would have called it combat pay for being in a combat zone.
Chicago teachers should be paid based on their student success rate. The system has the one of the worst student numbers in the USA.
I don't like the Sunday news broadcasts because it just regurgitates everything I heard all week. In my opinion, it's a non-news day.
Every day is a non-news day.
If hospitals are this busy , why not bring back the naval hospital to new york and flordia. If we are overcome with hospitalizations you'd figure we'd be doing evrything to get more beds/vents/ etc. You know like when we had a 10th of the cases and we had field hospitals built in central park
Dr's and nurses can't work in those hospitals when they're sick either.
@@flowerchild3686 they just want to complain about something get paid to do nothing thats your job you do it. Grow up. You need that covid test to tell you you're sick then it's a mind trick otherwise you would live a normal free life. No muzzle no distance from loved ones. We all still will die one day and they are robbing us of all our freedom. Our country of productivity. Testing doesn't change anyone's outcome. If you're really sick you go to the hospital. Let's talk about what % of people that test positively are in the hospital or die? What % wouldn't need to be there but take a test and freak out lol. The real jump in kids how many deaths are we really talking? They say new cases everyday thats bs they aren't all just new new cases they are people who had it more then once at this point more then twice with vaccine without its something we need to stop focusing on so much. You all look like clowns 🤡
Everytime they say that the hospitals are overcrowded an independent journalist goes and films the hospital to show that they are lying.
@@2813227 The virus mutates everytime it finds an unvaccinated host. It will find you one day, and on that day it might not be a lesser virulent variant. So if you don't care about dying now then make sure you stick to that later.
What did the president know and when did he know it?
President Biden, You must reshuffle your cabinet members including CDC director right now to make your admin stabilized and to control COVID-19.
Completely agree! This CDC director obviously not doing her job correctly, take it from Trump if someone was failing at their job, FIRED!!!
No cabinet members were responsible for their blunders: Afghanistan withdrawal issues, inflations or finance, supply chain (transportation) issues, gas price hike(laughing incident), southern border issues, foreign affairs issues, healthcare, COViD control issue, education, etc.. Mr.Biden has to reshuffle his incompetent cabinet members now for him and for the country!
Biden can't shuffle a deck of cards
@@michaelglazewski4884 Biden doesn’t like to play a trumpcard. R u a trumper? Lol
@@kjsytnmbcz003 he only seems to come to life s little when he talks Trump, and when there is a little girl close by.
His doctors have the toughest job of all. They need the proper daily cocktail of stimulants without killing him. It's very rare that they can keep him somewhat coherent after 11 am
How is striking when part of a union illegal? Everybody wants a safe work place. Seems the city should be busy making sure that's the case.
The teachers are right, safety first!
How are kids around other kids that can be spreaders of Covid-19 be the safest place for kids?? That makes NO SENSE!!
That's like saying how is school a safe place for kids for a variant they claim is so dead buy yet isn't safe for adults?
But*°
Thank you.
Chuck Todd, why the constant negativity in your reporting ?
We can certainly do with some positivity to cheer us on, in the New Year.
Thank you.
ciaChuck is a propagandist
@@pohakumana nay, he just needs a few doses of optimism.
He's Democrat, the existence of the party depends on exaggeration of all issues to promote fear and guilt.
He acts like a drama screen actor. Ridiculous.
@@michaelglazewski4884 pls, no propaganda !
Not to worry, we do have critical thinking. We are the Democrats, the independent thinkers !
I support the teachers. No job is worth your life. Remote teach or how the parents teach their kids. If the governments had locked down properly all this covid will be over by now.
What is wrong with Americans? Too many expect an answer immediately and to be served in seconds. Science didn't suddenly start moving like lightning just because everyone became selfish and expected instantaneous gratification. Quit complaining and blaming. Start helping. Other countries don't have this Covid problem, it is an American arrogance problem.
Maybe we should do like Germany is planning on doing ! Send out cops to arrest people to get their shots, or else, they go to jail ! You tell me how many folks are going to take time, to test themselves ? At Home ? No way !! Some might, others won’t bother !
@@It_is_Tyler you are a liar. A liar! There is no scientist who has ever described the virus as having a set survival rate - to the 100th percent.
No disease ever at any time in any medical publication has anything other than a broad guesstimate at survival. No scientist knows exactly how many have had it, survived it and died from it.
And. How can you assign a specific survival rate - when the death rate per capita varies so widely around the world? Stop lying. It's unconscionable to lie about something like this.
You could be dead tomorrow over your own stupidity. Then you will have to face your maker over the lies you told.
Last part... Easier to vote than ever??? I am Dutch. How bad was it?? We do not have lines. Anywhere. We do not have to register to vote. Every legal citizen above 18 is automatically registered and gets their ballot mailed. We do have to ID. But ID's are mandatory anyway for more things. And if you can not afford one, you get financial help with this. Voting is not a partisan thing here. You do not want to look like a third world country that refuses their citizens to have a say. And selecting who can vote? That was a thing of a distant past, when the rich and powerfull selected who was good enough to get to vote. We changed that. I think we learned from America back then that it could be done. Too bad Americans try to lose their rights.
Thank you for sharing!! I wish millions of Americans will see your post.
People need to stop being violent
How is anyone but all those that refuse to follow recommended precautions at fault? Why do they keep blaming President/CDC? This variant is spreading like crazy, and just about everyone was over this pandemic and has been slacking on mask wearing, let alone social distancing, since summer of last year.
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE REALLY ALL SOUNDS LIKE A COLT 😜
I hope Adam Kinzinger runs for something this year or in the future. The Republican Party needs more people like him to speak the truth to their base!
Illinois voters not interested.
Lie about being a patriot.
Patriots take care of their country.
Traitors act traitorous.
Guys, it is true that you are going through tough times...but at that times you need to unite, fight together, compensate for others who migh have mada a mistakes, but not criticise them evety time. Objectively speaking, it's better to reallocate all energy, time, money you're putting into criticism to the fight with covid. Saving lives should be the priority.
Stop blaming the un vaccinated
As long as the news media keeps telling all of America just what you guys are saying, then Donald Trump will continue to grow his ego thinking he is God's Savior For the republican party. For goodness sake's, if you all would quit talking about him I think he would end up going away. If he doesn't hear his name 1000 times a week in the news then he gets worried. Let him get worried guys. Just give him up for one month and see what happens and I bet you would be surprised.
The 11th booster will protect you till the 12th booster 😂😂
*PANDEMIC* . SCIENCE EVOLVES. DUH