The Myth Endures

In a recent article, CBS 4 interviewed an Adams 12 teacher who now “feels ready” to return to work. The article doesn’t mention whether or not the interviewer reminded the teacher that millions of Coloradoans have been working all the way through the coronavirus “pandemic.”

In what has become a sad commentary on the state of public education and indeed on our society’s basic ability to reason, this teacher said, “We care so much about our kids. That’s the biggest worry for me is I don’t want to get my kids sick or anyone in their family sick.” Of course, ten months of data demonstrates that the risk to kids from the novel coronavirus is virtually non-existent, and that asymptomatic transmission is not a thing, yet the myth of the coronavirus as a widespread, silent, and equal-opportunity deadly killer endures among people whose job it is to teach others.

The state’s answer, of course, was to spend millions of taxpayer dollars on so-called “rapid tests,” which are apparently like pregnancy tests but for the coronavirus. The interviewed teacher put it perfectly: “You have the ability to test yourself and really feel you are being responsible and taking the safety of your school and students in your own hands which is not something we have felt for a while.”

Notice that rather than encouraging mature and reasoned examination of data (what we know), what apparently matters is feeling okay about being safe. This is a perfect example of why the myth of the coronavirus endures.

Again, not that the coronavirus is not real or doesn’t harm some people, but that it is adding death or equally dangerous to all people is an abject lie. Society is so steeped in postmodernism and the idea that truth is determined by each person’s feelings that we now are forced to accept myths as valid because people feel it is. And of course, because it remains politically useful to leftists.

“I feel ready to go into school,” she said. We’re sure this is a big relief to the millions of Coloradoans who have been working this whole time to keep our internet on, grocery shelves stocked, and gas stations fueled up.