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"This chapter examines the causes and consequences of the current crisis in
children’s rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically how and why
children’s fundamental rights to life, health, and safety are besieged in the
context of education and schooling. It scrutinizes the laissez-faire pandemic
response of minimal mitigations in comparative global perspective, with the
United States exemplifying this model and faring worst among peer nations,
alongside the United Kingdom and Sweden. Using an intersectional framework
regarding systemic inequities, it analyzes policies regarding school reopenings
and pandemic mitigations through a review of relevant news media, surveys,
statistical data, and public discourse. The master narrative regarding
childhood education during the pandemic has created false divisions and dubious
equivalencies between different sets of children’s rights to justify in-person
schooling with inadequate mitigations. Political officials, economic elites,
contrarian “experts,” and aligned technocrats advanced laissez-faire policy
fueled by disinformation campaigns, moral panic, and political violence, to
overpower scientific consensus, public opinion, and human rights, which
disproportionately harms working-class and racial minority children."
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: July 18, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-108356962
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
