Another way the pandemic shutdown wasted huge amounts of money

I recently heard a story about a mother who has a special needs child. During the pandemic, when there were state-imposed shutdowns, she was not able to bring him to school or to temporary supervisory care. This special needs child occasionally had periods of emotional outbursts that could last for up to two days and the child was not always easy to control during these times. Sometimes the mother would bring him to a temporary care facility for half a day, a day, or sometimes leave him there overnight, when she was not able to deal with him, although she did not need to use that too often.

In order to be able to receive any help and have someone else supervise her son, the mother was forced to make the difficult decision to put him into full-time residential care, where he would permanently be away from the home and not see his mother. The child was put in residential care for two years. The school district paid $60,000 per year for the child to be there.

Obviously this situation was not practical or pragmatic. It was a bureaucratic cookie-cutter solution imposed from higher up (close all schools and temporary care facilities), and was not a cost-effective expenditure of money, it was extremely wasteful. This child did not need to be in full-time residential care, and the care he was receiving before cost only a fraction of that.

It's not just all a matter of money. This was not good for the child, to have to be separated from his mother. These residential facilities can be difficult places for special needs children to be.

I know there are many on the Left who don't seem to care at all about any amount of money being spent. But maybe think of it in these terms: This wasted money was money that could have been handed out to everyone for free, or allow the working class to pay lower taxes, or spent on something else that you care about. Government has a limited amount of money, and money wasted one place is going to mean somewhere else where that money can't be spent.

$60,000 a year is probably the entire amount of money the mother earned each year, before taxes. It's ridiculous that this was done.

 

Trump and the senate were leftist? How odd....

 

Disingenuous comment. Democrat state governors ordered this.

 

I am afraid you are wrong and right, Trump announced a national health emergency and shut down the federal govt. and the states followed suit. Shutdowns occurred in both Red and Blue states. Your inability to accurately represent the situation only shows your extreme bias.

 

I was not aware Republican states shut down schools for a year and a half.
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I know you're trying to make this thread all about Trump, but that is not the subject or the topic. I disagree with your comments, but am not going to waste time and space arguing about that in this thread.

 

Then I suggest you recognize the fact that some were you can start with Missouri.
Over 60 MO schools have had to close COVID staff shortages
https://www.kansascity.com › news › article257548658

Jan 23, 2022 — And the Knob Noster school district, in Johnson County, Missouri, on Wednesday extended closures through Friday “due to a large number of staff ...

 

It's possible the school and temporary care facility in this story was closed due to staff shortages, but I think it is unlikely that was the case.

 

I could lose my child if Covid closes her special needs school again | Beverley Cohen | The Guardian

"Parents like me need more help. I couldn't cope with having my severely disabled daughter back at home full time"
"Like most parents, I love my child with all my heart. Unlike most parents, if there's a Covid-19 case at her school and it has to close again, I could lose her.
My daughter Liora Sangeeta is 14, she has complex needs: epilepsy that medication can’t control, a chronic kidney condition and autism. Liora can't speak and she’s doubly incontinent. She also has a habit of hitting her own head with her fists, as hard as she can, raising big bumps and sometimes blood. She's under the care of Great Ormond Street hospital.
Tempered by school and respite (temporary care facility), it's possible for Liora to live at home, where she is happy and adored, where her family experiences precious moments of fun and joy with her."

 

Abortion was avaialble.

 

Sometimes it is not diagnosed until at birth. Sometimes it is not diagnosed until very late into the pregnancy (you know, when the baby already exists).
In many cases of epilepsy and mental retardation it might not be diagnosed until age 2 or 3. Guess you're a proponent of euthanasia?