Safely Learning

IN MEXICO, where the pandemic is a damned panic, plans have been made for school, and school will be online. In Mexico, this gringo virus, it is problem, but the children will be home, safe is school, with no crazy president pushing them out the door and into danger. Many Mexican children will attend school on the internet, like children around the world, which is maybe not best, but much better than nothing. the lessons and the learning will be there. Many areas of Mexico, rural areas, lack internet service. In these places school will be broadcast or cablecast on television, and in areas without television, the remote regions, school will be transmitted by radio, some form of which can reach the entire country. In Mexico, all children will receive their education, if only from the virus free safety of their homes. the Mexican government and people were able to create this solution without partisan acrimony or the fear, anger, and social convulsions of the sort rippling through the United States . Why we in the United States cannot simply reach safe, satisfactory solutions becomes, by comparison, an even greater mystery. In the United States the Trump administration, in its desperation to lesson its responsibility for the rampant epidemic by downplaying its severity, seems intent on forcing America's children into dangerous classrooms, all for political gain. An overwhelming percentage of Americans are dissatisfied with their federal government for not acting decisively against the virus, the American people want a federal face mask mandate a federally ordered two week national quarantine and shelter in place period, and extensive testing, all of which has been and remains opposed by Trump and his ilk. If the American people are intelligent enough to vote trump out of office, this administration will soon be relegated to the dubious category of failed governments which failed to provide much needed national leadership and which failed miserably to provide basic protections for its people.