I just want to reemphasize because I don't think I can emphasize it enough as the director

of the Centers of Z control, the leading public health agency in the world.

It is in the public health interest of these K through 12 students to get these schools

back open for face-to-face learning.

The isolation that these adolescents are feeling that now is associated with increases,

you mentioned increased drug overdose deaths and now increased suicides.

I think it is really important as a grandfather and 11 grandkids, I want these kids back

in school.

I have one grandchild with cystic fibrosis, I want it done smartly.

But I think we have to be honest that the public health interest of the students in this

nation right now is to get a quality education in face-to-face learning and we need to get

on with it.

That's the director of the CDC and it kind of seems like whatever they asked him, he found

a way to work in and we have to open schools.

Because he's got 11 grandkids, I know the reason I care so much is I've got two kids at school

age.

If he's got 11 grandkids, he's seeing it.

He realizes, because he's hearing it firsthand, I'm sure, from his kids, how what a disaster

it was last year, it wasn't okay at all by anybody's standards.

And we're going to do it again?

No freaking way.

Well it looks like we're going to.

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