Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The latest Shared Lie
A short article at EdWeek tries to analyze the budgetary costs of the school lockdowns.
At the level of numbers and accounting, it's a straightforward analysis. Districts that depend on income tax will suffer more than property tax districts. States that depend on oil will hurt even more.
The author serves Satan by leaving out the real cause of the lockdowns.
He repeatedly says things like this:
The coronavirus pandemic has already pounded states’ budgets and will leave no school district unharmed next fiscal year. But the coronavirus is having an extraordinary impact on districts’ costs. States that are heavily reliant on natural gas and oil revenue will be hit extra hard since oil prices have sunk New York state, which has been hit the hardest hit by the coronavirus, estimates a loss anywhere between $9 and $15 billion. Because the coronavirus hit so late in the fiscal year, Finally, pension costs are expected to spike next year after the markets, which they’re heavily invested in, crashed.The oil shock had nothing to do with the virus OR the lockdowns, but the author mixes and conflates causes. The stock crash was scheduled to happen just about now because it was necessary to defeat Trump. The crash was nominally triggered by the oil shock BEFORE the lockdowns. Insiders knew it and were selling out in the month before the crash, just as they do before every major crash. Most important: The virus didn't kill the economy. The Branded Flu, like generic unbranded flu, mainly kills people who are already on the verge of dying and aren't earning income. All previous epidemics somehow ended without lockdowns. We've survived millions of years by using our own immune systems, aided in recent centuries by REAL PUBLIC HEALTH. Previous epidemics incurred costs for increased hospital use in bad years, which was partly compensated by decreased hospital use the next year. That's all. Who killed the real economy? Presidents and governors. All of them participated to some extent, but the most vicious and savage murderers are the governors with the closest ties to the teacher union. The same monsters who previously declared that education was the cure for all ills suddenly decided that education is the illness. That's why the EdWeek writer has to join the Shared Lie. He has to preserve those governors.
Labels: malign misattribution, Shared Lie
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