Debunked: Teachers Unions
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Daily Wire
4.4 • 152.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 3:02.7 | They could hold up the entire business of a city. |
| 3:06.7 | Imagine if your firefighters decided to go on strike |
| 3:08.8 | in the middle of a fire. Imagine if the military decided to go on strike in the middle of a war. |
| 3:16.3 | These are the kind of dangers associated with public sector unions, and it is a massive disruption to the American economy. |
| 3:23.3 | So over the past couple of months, we found out one unions. And it is a massive disruption to the American economy. |
| 3:30.2 | So over the past couple of months, we found out one specific and important thing about the Biden administration's approach to COVID policy in America's schools. |
| 3:34.6 | The Biden administration doesn't care about the kids. The Biden administration cares about the |
| 3:37.9 | teachers' unions. One of the most robust scientific findings over the past year has been that schools do not provide additional risk above baselines to teachers. |
| 3:46.6 | This is particularly true with regard to elementary schools where the risks of transmission to teachers are very low. |
| 3:51.6 | In fact, in the United States, there has yet to be, so far as I am aware, a single documented case of a teacher infected by an elementary |
| 3:58.4 | school student and then dying of COVID. So why exactly are we still talking about schools |
| 4:02.9 | remaining closed? The CDC standards would require that the vast majority of students be at home |
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