In New York state, primary school children have been forced to eat their lunch outside despite plummeting temperatures, while students in California are following the same protocol and have endured rainy weather. School districts that are introducing these rules are doing so to help prevent the spread of Covid on the premises. The Mail has the story.
Elementary schools from New York to California are forcing students to eat outdoors in an effort to protect them from Covid, despite plummeting temperatures in the Empire State and rainy weather on the west coast.
And now, parents are lashing out against the school districts that are imposing those social distancing rules.
In New York City, elementary school students were forced to eat their lunches in cold weather on Wednesday.
“It’s getting a little ridiculous at this point,” a mum at MS 104 in Manhattan told the New York Post.
“They’ve eaten outdoors every day this week. It’s cold.”
In Brooklyn, another mum of a student at a Park Slope elementary school said her child began complaining about eating in the ever-dropping temperatures, having done so since the beginning of the school year back in late August.
“We’ve heard no plans to bring them inside anytime soon,” she told the New York Post.
“In fact, they are still asking for parents to give the school their Fresh Direct bags to create seating pads. It doesn’t sound like they’re going in.”
In New York, the Department of Education has allowed principals to come up with their own lunch plans for this school year.
While not every school in the city is forcing students to eat outdoors, every school’s lunch plan must comply with social distancing rules, meaning more students are taking their meals outside.
Kids in balmier California are also being made to eat outside. And while there’s less chance of freezing weather, those youngsters must contend with soggy lunches as they’ll be forced to eat outside if it rains.
“My kid has his rain gear, he has his rain jacket,” said Tristan Leong, a parent of two kids in the Davis, California school district.
“Everyone kinda scratched their heads and said wait a minute, there’s no cover for them,” Leong said, according to ABC10.
Leong brought the issue up to school board members Thursday night after receiving an email last Monday from his child’s principal, saying that students must eat outside due to Covid restrictions, while adding that they should have rain coats, warm jackets and even a change of clothes too when going to school.
“It’s totally just common sense, it shouldn’t be political at all, this is not a right or left issue, this is just let kids eat lunch normally,” Leong said.
The Davis Joint Unified School District refused to comment on the matter on camera, according to ABC10, however the news outlet did receiving a statement that was sent out to families district-wide.
“In consultation with the Yolo County Public Health Officer, Dr. Sisson, we believe the health risk to students is greater eating indoors unmasked than eating outdoors in inclement weather, under a covered area for a short period of time.”
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It’s good for you!
We used to think it a special treat to have Junior School lunch
in the playground or sports field.
term or beginning of an Indian summer while they were refurbing the dinner room/school hall.
Mind you that did tend to be towards the end of the summer
Given that many of the US authorities seem to have been ‘out to lunch’ for some time now, is this story any surprise?
And what ‘risk’ do they face from being indoors, exactly? Getting the sniffles for a few days?
And how is the ‘risk’ at lunchtime different from the rest of the school day when they are indoors? Presumably that’s down to the Magic Muzzles which do an excellent job of ‘keeping people safe’ despite the stats from every country which has mandated them failing to show any impact whatsoever?
Presumably they are bowing to pressure from the PTA demanding they be seen ‘doing something’.
If the kids have been vaccinated this is just one more admission that the jabs don’t work.
The whole point of risk assessment is to mitigate risks. But increasing the risk of pneumonia to reduce a negligible risk of Covid would appear to be a step in the wrong direction.
Covid is when there’s double diffuse pneumonia in the presence of a SARSCoV2 infection. No pneumonia means no Covid.
There’s not much deviation from the nonsense in the public sector employees, got to be the agenda.
Just watched Savij Jabbid telling us that restrictions are being enforced again, starting with additions to the red travel list. This was followed on GB News by a disgusting virologist saying that to live “with the virus” we need to all get jabbed and modify the way we socially interact with one another. People like this virologist are a clear and present danger to our lives, they’re persona non grata – they need to be shoved out of the media and ignored.
GB News needs to be told by as many people as possible that we don’t want to listen to these cretins. They need to be starved of a public platform.
I disagree. Free speech needs to be promoted. We should hear what these fearmongering control freaks have to say and also listen to the counter arguments.
Trouble is, any counter arguments are squashed!
Indeed – and the big problem is that we are only hearing the ever-more extreme and delusional rantings of the Covidian lobby, with anyone else being censored.
If the two sides had been given equal prominence we probably wouldn’t have the issues in society which we do now, as it’s very, very easy to counteract a lot of the crap (e.g. face nappies – no evidence in the stats that they make any difference, and the Maskivists have failed to explain this – and not been challenged by the MSM or most politicians to do so).
If coverage had been more balanced far more people would have a realistic view of the actual risk, and of the futility of most of the dystopian measures introduced to (allegedly) “fight Covid”.
That’s fine when there is a counter-argument – but there wasn’t and this is the problem. I haven’t seen an instance of one of these evil bastards being challenged by someone from their own field of expertise.
If GB News wants to air the views of the authoritarians, they need to balance it with a counter argument.
Agreed but more on the basis of these fools being given plenty of rope to hang themselves, the audience can condemn them for the absurdity of their claims.
During WW2 the Great British public had every reason to believe and hope that the government was ‘keeping them safe’ from a very real existential threat with piles of new rules and regulations.
But as the end approached and victory becoming ever more certain they tired of being bossed around by petty officials as illustrated by Dad’s Army in which ARP Warden Mr. Hodges was still a recognised figure of fun 3 decades later.
The notion that
The Man From The Ministry Knows Best
was a running joke throughout my 1960s childhood, we used to laugh throughout the five minute Government Information Films which preceded Saturday morning cinema matinees for kids, recognising them as patronising bollocks.
That began to fade as computers, the internet and smart phones began to infantilise the population; possibly starting as early as mass TV consumption emerging with the entire nation sharing one or perhaps two sources of information night after night.
To give balance we should have nothing but 18 months listening to the people arguing that there needs to be no more restrictions as we have 18 months of listening to none stop doom and gloom mongers
This is the issue when you have made a virus with an IFR of.2 the psychological equivalent of Ebola. Common sense dies and your fear causes you more problems than the original problem. It’s why you can mandate vaccines whose only longterm value is to you and treat kids as plague monsters instead of otherwise healthy humans.
We truly have entered the Age of the Endarkenment.
And these are probably the same people who call themselves “Progressives”.
Nu strain incoming!
I wonder how it interacts with people who have had previous infections and those with multiple jabs from multiple brands
I expect it will be
a) a nothingburger
b) a catstrophe for everyone
c) a catastrophe for pfizer recipients
maybe we should lockdown until we no more (/sarc)
And if you homeschool your child, they consider you a far-right extremist/terrorism threat.
I just don’t know how the covidians and everybody else can continue to co-exist.
Quite right too. It’s important at this late stage in the pandemic for the authorities to be working hard to come up with even more idiotic ideas on how to teach this virus how to behave. It’s not easy, because most of the obviously stupid ideas have already been taken.
I remember as a “home dinners” primary school child, when it was raining, snowing whatever, we were not allowed back into the school at all during lunch break, and we had to wait freezing until called back in (woebetide anyone sneaking in!) The school dinners lot were able to stay in. Also, at secondary school when I had to have school dinners, and the cooks were out on strike, we had to bring a packed lunch. Those entitled to free school meals, still got a hot meal! This craziness has been going far longer than we think.
That’ll toughen them up.
Lord knows these younger generations need it.
“I had six of the best every day. Didn’t do me any harm.”
Yeah, I’d draw the line at corporal punishment.
Who had this guy in the daily sweep stake?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10241917/Sherrif-Tiraspol-winger-Adama-Traore-goes-clutching-chest-Real-Madrid-defeat.html
no doubt to be explained away as just another coincidence.
edit: and there it is in the comment below:
Are the children told not to touch the doorhandle or rails when they troop back inside?
Meanwhile in Britain: regime radio (R4) was all over the place this morning in respect of “Nu”. First, the variant could definitely evade the vaccines. Then, well it might, that’s all, so keep on taking them.
Interesting that the name “Gauteng” is used in the British media for the part of South Africa where Nu is supposed to be rife. This is the geographically small region containing the cities of Johannesburg (population ~10m) and Pretoria (~3m).
And of course the headteacher, the other teachers and admin staff will all be outside in the rain for their lunch as well, along with Yolo County Public Health Officer, Dr. Sisson……
Scientists reject pundits’ vaccine ‘theory’ after three footballers collapse in a weekWigan’s Charlie Wyke hospitalised while Sheriff’s Adama Traore went down clutching chest and Sheffield United’s John Fleck fell ill in games
Leading scientists have rejected speculation that the Covid vaccine is linked with recent on-field collapses of three footballers, as sporting pundits came under attack for fuelling hesitancy of the jab.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2021/11/25/wigan-striker-charlie-wyke-becomes-third-footballer-collapse/
End of story then – if Leading Scientists say that then it must be true – as we know, they are always 100% accurate and never spout on-message bollox…
Has anyone ever been given a good reason from the school as to why kids in the UK go in their kit on PE days due to covvieblx? I can’t get my head round it.
Kids will get cold and possibly the flu. Add in low nutritional food and Great Maunder Minimum.
On a separate not, these kids are running around with a mask on. Not great when you need more oxygen for that. This may stop them exercising to keep fit (and warm). Also note, the girl is eating grains.
6uild 6ack 6etter in full force in NY day care.
Criminally insane. Psychopaths.
Obviously repeating myself:
None of this has anything to do with a virus.
It’s not about what they say it’s about!
It gets more ridiculous by the day. Enjoy the laugh because these people are hilarious. It’s just a pity that the poor kids end up suffering at the hands of these clowns.
Looking like the $100 bribe from the mayor is to buy warm clothes not sweets.
Breaking….New York mayor proposes closing schools and sending all children to work houses…
I am for this! Provided, of course, that all teachers, the principal, vice-principal(s), support staff, janitors, etc. are required to eat/smoke/coffee break outside in a corner of the schoolyard away from the vulnerable
students. They must provide photos and/or a live video feed 
of their outdoor break time for verification purposes. The staff break-room door will be padlocked until further notice.
Since when is get cold and wet a way to stay healthy in winter?
Just to confirm, both primary and secondary schools in our town have all kids eating outside at lunchtime….and their classes have all doors and windows open for ventilation. Plus…at the primary…they have had the heating off, due to “issues”…saves them money I suppose.
“we believe the health risk to students is greater…..”
You believe? So what? Any evidence or, perhaps, a bit of common sense.