“If you’ve been a school teacher for years, you have the immune system of steel because just like healthcare workers, you are around children all day long who aren’t the best at covering their mouth or nose when they sneeze or cough,” Morrow said. “They’re not good at washing their hands after they go to the bathroom.”
That quote above came from a Sept. 16th, 2020 press conference in which NC GOP leaders and our State Superintendent-Elect made statements concerning the need to open up schools in the midst of a pandemic.
Never mind the fact that fatalities from COVID-19 on a national level were quickly approaching three times the number recorded in the month of the press conference.
It is what the nurse who spoke the words above said that echoes more loudly to this teacher.
At the time of this post over three and one-half years later the CDC’s COVID DATA TRACKER records the following stats:
And don’t forget that Michele Morrow was not actually working as a nurse in a medical facility during the pandemic. Furthermore, she was not a Wake County parent with children in the public schools.
