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In reply to the discussion: Arkansas banned mask mandates. As schools get ready to reopen, the governor says he regrets signing [View all]Ocelot II
(124,326 posts)9. Nobody complained about the polio vaccine because kids were getting polio.
At first, covid was mostly killing old people, and who cares about old people? Now that kids are getting sick maybe the GOPers will care a little more - though those kids are already born instead of fetal, so maybe not.
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Arkansas banned mask mandates. As schools get ready to reopen, the governor says he regrets signing [View all]
demmiblue
Aug 2021
OP
I told my husband, "When they start losing their children maybe they'll believe Covid is real."
CrispyQ
Aug 2021
#3
Ah !! Thx for this info, I've been asking MAGA I know why they didn't fight against polio its becaus
uponit7771
Aug 2021
#11
But maybe if they find it politically expedient to pretend to care about kids
Ocelot II
Aug 2021
#18
Child-killer now wants to avoid accountability for his child-killing by pretending he opposes
RockRaven
Aug 2021
#13
I just don't understand this obsession of GQP governors with FORBIDDING local mask mandates.
ShazzieB
Aug 2021
#27
They believe in local control (state's rights, Feds stay out of state schools) until they don't.
Blue_true
Aug 2021
#50
I guarantee you that these efforts will fail. Everywhere I go (I'm in STL CITY MO), everyone is ...
SWBTATTReg
Aug 2021
#41
DeathSantis threatened to pull funding for schools that required masks ..
SarcasticSatyr
Aug 2021
#19
Noodle spine Hutchinson is allowing his voters and citizens to die due to his cowardice
irisblue
Aug 2021
#22
I'm determined to hang that highly-selective "pro-life" canard around the necks of the idiots
calimary
Aug 2021
#59
Unwise governors should lose their jobs. Fuck his apology. Vote his & statehouse idiot asses out.
ancianita
Aug 2021
#26
Regrets don't make it. Executive order, call a special session - show some concrete contrition.
marble falls
Aug 2021
#39