Chicago Teachers Still Absent from Classrooms

SAPHIER: These people are putting our children in jeopardy. We have seen a markedly high-rise in suicides attempts, overdose attempts, and mental health suffering of our children. This is completely uncalled for, and I want to hear President Biden come out and defend these people just like he continues to condemn the unvaccinated. And what we just heard when he said that this is still “a pandemic of the unvaccinated”? No. That is not true.

Actually, vaccinated and unvaccinated are causing this virus to continue to transmit. That is the definition of a pandemic. What is… What we are seeing are higher hospitalization rates amongst the unvaccinated. Stop condemning and stop shaming people who are unvaccinated, yet not saying anything when people are putting our children’s life and welfare at stake.

CLAY: That’s Dr. Nicole Saphier on Fox News. Welcome back to the Clay and Buck show. She’s totally correct, and I always extend this to Fauci. Look at what this guy will and won’t condemn. That’s really his job is to go on TV and to tell — or he thinks it’s his job, at least, to go on TV and tell — people what they can and can’t do and what is and is not sound policy day to day for people in the era of covid.

And yet he will not speak out, ever, in a way that upsets Democrat constituencies. He will never… Fauci in almost two years — and obviously Biden since he’s been president — will never upset Democrat sensibilities no matter how stupid or in this case how vicious the policy is. Clay, all of the data, all of the information, and it’s obvious, if you think about it for a second. Everything going on here with children being kept out of schools is cruel, it’s damaging, it’s unjustified, and yet Chicago public schools, again, another day in America’s third largest city. Right? Maybe fourth now, as I think Houston’s the third now — Did Houston pass it? I think Chicago’s still third.

BUCK: What’s up, KTRH Land?

CLAY: Yeah.

BUCK: Well, Chicago’s close. Whatever.

CLAY: It’s a big city.

BUCK: Windy city. Big city. But the kids are out of school again ’cause there’s a deadlock, i.e., the teachers are saying, “No, we’re not going back. It’s too dangerous for us.” Where is the public health apparatus defending children against this madness? They are quiet because they are cowards, because they are Democrats, because this is political.

CLAY: It’s so well said, because Dr. Fauci will do every media outlet basically under the sun — except for this one, by the way. This is an easy opportunity for him to prove that he’s not partisan, right? Come out and say, “Hey, every single school needs to be open. The science is clear. The data is clear. Kids aren’t under a substantial risk at all from covid, and their teachers are under virtually no risk as well.”

Yet they’re all silent. And this is why I said yesterday on the show, if Trump wanted to respond to January 6th, I don’t think the way to respond to January 6th… By the way, Kamala Harris blew this whole thing up with the Pearl Harbor and 9/11 comparison, which just makes it seem laughable. But if Trump actually wanted to respond to this, to me the way to do it is, you bring your own media apparatus with you.

You go to Chicago, and you say, “I’m not here to talk about past. I’m here to talk about the future. We absolutely, positively have to have every single kid back in school right now at this exact moment. There’s no way to defend it any other way,” and I believe that would — for him — absolutely be a winning issue in a unique fashion that changes the storyline in a monstrous way overnight.