Advancing Liberty Through Action
Sep 14, 2020
“We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving to either tier 2 or to reopening K-12 schools at least until after the election, in early November," Ferrer told education professionals and school nurses in a conference call. "When we just look at the timing of everything, it seems to us a more realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re going to be where we are now until we are done with the election.” (emphasis added)
“Gregory said he contacted the health department directly after obtaining the audio to inquire when Ferrer said schools would reopen.‘I got a response back that is basically this word salad,’ Gregory said. ‘It’s one big long paragraph of a word salad. It’s not even worth reading because all that it said was, “we’re reassessing all of the time, and as soon as we do the in-person learning with the high risk, high needs students, the special needs, we will reassess for everyone else.” That was their official answer as to when the schools were going to reopen.’‘So the health department official statement does not jive with the health director,” Gregory continued. “What caught my attention on this was that she said election not just once, but she says it twice...Gregory: “She seems to have gone out of the mainstream in the totality of what’s going on in the county, and she’s starting to get very specific on political agendas. It took her a week or so to admit that protesters were part of the spread of the virus. We had to pressure her to say that.”John Kobylt, co-host: “She’s definitely got a real left bent. She spends a lot of time huffing and puffing over the minority breakouts on the cases. I mean every day she goes through a laundry list and bemoans it, way way out of proportion.”Gregory: “So this is why now, every time she says something like this, we have to dissect it to make sure it’s legit, or whatever.”
“All Washington, D.C. public schools will begin the year virtually on Aug. 31 until at least [Friday] Nov. 6, Mayor Muriel Bowser’s office announced Thursday....” (emphasis added)