The Manufacturing of Coerced Consent - Part II
How the Government is Weaponizing our Schools
Testing
Grants to FQHC were a mere fraction of what was to become the new battleground in the never-ending quest to inject every human with biologics.
No doubt many of us remember the much ballyhooed announcement introducing Operation Warp Speed. This earmarked incredible sums of money to produce the covid-19 vaccine.
The Amount?
Ten Billion dollars!
What many may have missed was that President Biden pledged a matching amount just to test kids at school.
Why? What could testing children possibly seek to accomplish? Why would they promote testing to an age group that emerged virtually unscathed from the ravages of the epidemic?
The answer lies within the question and is understood intuitively by most at this point. Less than one fifth of all vaccine eligible children actually received the Covid vaccine. It’s clear that the White House is facing an uphill battle trying to convince this impressionable age group and their parents to receive this vaccine. To this end, our scientifically driven government engaged in “evidence based” approaches to reverse the trend. The carrot and the stick approach (incentives and gulags) have worked throughout the ages and now we have the scientific backing to stand behind it. The carrot didn’t work, so now they needed to try the stick.
Very few people currently receiving the vaccine, are opining to get injected because they think that it is necessary. For most people, it is a matter of convenience. They will say, “I needed to travel”, “my employer required it” or some other social excuse. This method of incessantly inconveniencing families is one sure way to increase uptick. Using faulty testing to “find” asymptomatic “carriers” and punitively singling out the unvaccinated with “Test to Stay” programs is an evidence based approach to up the vaccine rates. Incessant testing, remains the most “hands-off” no-brainer approach for such social disruptions. Hence, $10 Billion for testing kids at school.
The billions of dollars in grant money for school testing was distributed to the State Health Departments. New Jersey for example took its paltry share of $267,527,208! The amount for a single testing grant more than doubled all funding that the NJDOH received from the HHS for the entire 2019, the year preceding the pandemic!
Thankfully, for the most part schools in our community never offered the testing and the few that did were met with stiff resistance from parents who refused to comply. Because of this, by and large, we merited to keep our schools open without a hitch after only closing briefly during the height of the pandemic. Throughout the majority of the country, however, testing is continuing unbated
Testing to Mitigate the Symptoms of the Common Cold?
One may ask, what’s the end game with all the testing? What threshold will suffice to placate the health departments to end the testing?
The CDC in their Testing to Reopen guidance document stated: “Because some of the symptoms of flu, COVID19, and other respiratory illnesses are similar, the difference between them cannot be made based on symptoms alone.”
“Respiratory illnesses” that affect children? Could that possibly be referring to the common cold?
This alone would imply that the virulence of Covid has been reduced so greatly that it is clinically indistinguishable from the flu and the common cold! Common sense dictates that this alone is reason to resume to normalcy! It is unconscionable to keep destroying children’s emotional health due to the symptoms of the common cold.
However, the CDC in its great wisdom arrived at an opposite conclusion. “Testing remains critically important to identify and appropriately mitigate the spread of respiratory illness throughout communities.” We need to end the common cold at the expense of our children’s future!
Thankfully, after careful research, I discovered that there is an endgame to this process. In a document about school testing released by the NJ State Health Department a salient question is raised, “How much funding will be available?”. One would have assumed that with such dire need, the testing would go on indefinitely. The answer however, portrays another picture: “funds will be… available until the State’s program fund is expended”. That’s it! No money, no testing. It’s that simple! By extension, if collectively, schools desist in taking this money, all testing will immediately cease. Can we put the schools up to it?
The EANS (Emergency Assistance to Nonpublic Schools) Program
A substantial source of grant money was received through the EANS Program. One administrator expressed it this way; “Now, instead of playing ‘catch-up’, many schools are in a good place and are able to comfortably plan for the future.”
These grants are more than mere pocket change as can be seen from these N.Y. documents and from this list of N.J. allocations. The money is earmarked to be spent on a host of Covid related expenses incurred by the schools as summarized here. There is one caveat listed in the grant conditions that is extremely troubling.
“All services or assistance requested, including any materials, equipment, and any other items used to provide such services or assistance, must be limited to secular, neutral, and non-ideological purposes.”
Arguably, this does not constitute shmad as one can well use other sources of income for religious instruction. However, it must be noted that none of our great masters from yesteryear in Europe would have even entertained to accept money that would be conditional on being used solely for secular purposes. Such monies would have been anathema to them. But we, a generation or two later, are all running after these grants without even seeing something wrong with it. Obviously, taking money with dubious stipulations, can influence our youth in dubious ways.
ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) Fund.
By far, the largest cluster of grant money made available for schools was the ESSER Grant. These numbers are staggering and beyond belief in their sheer numbers. This grant was funded incrementally. ESSER I allocated $13.2 billion for schools. ESSER II added an additional $54.3 billion for schools. As if this wasn’t enough, ARP (American Rescue Plan – the $1.9 trillion package) ESSER (also known as ESSER III) allocated an unprecedented $122 billion to the fund.
To see how much your state received from this grant you can use this tool, but there are graphs that can help you drill down deeper and understand the enormity of these numbers. In N.J. there are tables that break down these numbers by district for ESSER I, ESSER II, and ESSER III.
Here’s the insidious part. According to the American Rescue Plan in section 2001(e)(2) it states that among other things, “the remaining funds (80%) [can be used] for any of the following:…
…(Q) Developing strategies and implementing public health protocols including, to the greatest extent practicable, policies in line with guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the reopening and operation of school facilities to effectively maintain the health and safety of students, educators, and other staff.”
Simply put, when schools accept this money they need to comply with the ever changing whims of the CDC’s K – 12 reopening guidelines that has already been updated twice this month! Of course we find the standard tools from the CDC’s empty toolbox in the mix. Masking, social distancing, and testing are favorites, but there’s more.
Every State is required to submit a state plan detailing how they are using the funds according to code. States are required to answer how they implement strategies consistent to the greatest extent practicable for prevention and mitigation policies in line with the most up-to-date CDC guidance for reopening schools. The covert implication is that the funds must be expended in line with these guidelines. This is the reason that almost all schools across the country are demanding that these children be masked and harassed for hours every day. For the love of money.
A careful reading of the act, however, reveals that the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE – the governmental office that oversees the ESSER grants) is being disingenuous. The act merely says that the money can be used for the CDC’s reopening guidelines, but not that it must! By highlighting these measures front and center, the OESE is fooling schools into believing that following these guidelines are non-negotiable, and ignores the fact that according the ARP, following the CDC’s guidelines is merely a suggestion.
It gets even worse. The first CDC directive in the guidelines states that schools are supposed to promote vaccination to its staff and students. It’s no wonder that with pressure coming from the top down, we are seeing States and school districts beginning to mandate vaccines on their students. Once we gave the unelected CDC control of our children’s future, there’s no limits to where it can take us.
My takeaway is this. We as parents are paying tuition. We need to stipulate the conditions that are acceptable to us! We cannot let runaway schools try to grab every dollar that ever gets available to them and then insist that they need to abide by these arbitrary stipulations placed on them that are to our detriment. Our funding is no less important than the funding that they are receiving from outside sources that don’t hide their agenda to undermine us. Our children, though, are way more important than any grant in the world. Schools need to be upfront with parents regarding which grants they are applying to and how it could impact the purity of the school. We need to appoint a board that has no negios with true daas Torah as to which grants, we are permitted to accept and which, although very tempting, we must decline. Indiscriminate grant taking has the ability to hollow out the very core of our being. One thing is clear. The power of grants are so powerful that if Stalin ym”sh would have taken advantage of these tools, Soviet Russia may have never fallen.
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