From time to time we like to identify examples of someone in public life committing a Kingsley gaffe, which is when they speak some truth they didn’t intend to admit. My current example is the Public Health Director of Los Angeles County, Barbara Ferrer, saying the following, sourced to msn.com which got it from CBS Los Angeles.
We don’t realistically anticipate that we would be moving either to Tier 2 [of California’s reopening plan] or to reopening K-12 schools at least…until after the election, after, you know, in early November. If we just look at the timing of everything, it seems to us the most realistic approach to this would be to think that we’re gonna be where we are now…until…we are done with the elections.
It is widely assumed Ferrer means keeping the kids home until the election is a way to avoid giving Trump a Covid-19 “victory;” to keep parents’ dissatisfaction with the status quo high until after the votes are cast. Apparently, keeping the schools closed is a political act - not entirely a health precaution, maybe no health precaution at all.
