Even eight years of Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (6) and
of George W Bush and four years of Donald J. Trump did not convince me that Mencken was right. However, now
Parents of school-aged children are supportive of some, but not all coronavirus restrictions as kids gear up to return to the classroom this fall, a poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation released Wednesday shows.
A majority of parents — 58 percent — don't want their child's school to require COVID-19 vaccinations. The results were split along party lines, with 66 percent of Democratic voters supporting vaccine requirements compared to just 13 percent of Republican voters, but even among Democrats the rate was lower than the 82 percent who have age-eligible children who have already received the vaccine.
The question was premised on the FDA fully approving the use of a Covid-19 vaccine in children. Yet
.... most parents do support mask requirements for students and staff who remain unvaccinated, though it's not clear what percentage backs masking for those who have received their shots.
If respondents are being honest, parents would rather their children wear masks throughout the school day (other than, presumably, while eating) than to have them vaccinated.
This is barely comprehensible and suggests H.L. Mencken's perspective would apply today. Mencken referred to "intelligence." But whether "intelligence" or "common sense" or some other word most accurately describes the American people (at least the ones in this survey), something is seriously awry.
However, thinking is far more awry, and dangerous, among residents of Franklin County, Tennessee, who have taken displeasure at wearing masks to a frenzied extreme:
The pandemic is going to last far longer than it has to because millions of parents in this country are irresponsible guardians for their children. https://t.co/QZURZAAZSp
— Pé (@4everNeverTrump) August 11, 2021
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