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A School District Takes A Bold First Step

Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness
3 min readAug 16, 2021

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To take on the threat posed by the Delta Variant, the LAUSD will require their staff, but not students, to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

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Your child will wait for another child to die.

- Dallas County judge

COVID-19 morphed from a public health crisis to a political one a long time ago. Masking and social distancing should have been readily accepted as a common-sense way to keep an airborne virus from spreading but somehow these became appropriated as symbols of “persecution” by the Trump Cult. The mere sight of a masked citizen is enough to send some of these believers into a violent frenzy as displayed outside a Tennessee school board meeting where a mob attacked a parent and demanded that he remove his mask. Others, like Herman Cain, bravely refused to wear one, becoming a martyr in the war against science.

Now with the arrival of highly effective vaccines, we should be beyond that need to wear the hated masks. Instead, anti-vaxxers…

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Carl J. Petersen
Age of Awareness

Parent, special education advocate and former LAUSD School Board candidate. Still fighting for the children. www.ChangeTheLAUSD.com