Monday, May 25, 2020: Reject This New Normal For Students, A Message To Visitors, Something Else To Consider

Reject this new normal for students Signs indicate the worst of the virus is behind us, the data from across the state, country and the globe is in. The virus primarily strikes down elderly people with comorbidities in care facilities, while the death rate for children is near zero. Here in Maine, with our low mortality rate, there is no scientifically based reason I see for kids not to return to school right now, in the summer and certainly in the fall, as normal, rather than stay locked-up all day with their elder family members. Yet, with their recently released guidelines for reopening schools, the CDC goes on acting as though the unrealized early models of millions dead in the U.S.