Despite a mere 0.21% of all coronavirus deaths being children, a combination of hysteria about the virus and teacher’s unions who don’t care about kids have kept tens of millions of them out of schools for the past year and a half.
Even today as states reopen, schools are one of the areas lagging, particularly in areas run by Democrats. Just days ago AOC and NYC Mayoral candidate Maya Wiley appeared at the first indoor concert in the city since the pandemic began. It was packed with thousands of attendees – meantime schools in the city won’t be fully reopened in person until the fall.
Distance learning (at least for grades K-12) has proven to be a failure during the pandemic, and some economists predict that the effects will be felt for decades to come. According to new research, we can expect those consequences to be heavily concentrated in blue states.