Trump vs Momma Bears: The #ProtectOurKids video goes viral

07/20/2020 10:29 am ET • Nellie English

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MeidasTouch has released a new video: #ProtectOurKids. The latest ad is a fiery critique of Trump’s call to reopen schools in the fall.

It opens to the President seated and announcing, “We have to open our schools. It is so important to open our schools.”

The coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the nation. Over 140,000 Americans have died of COVID-19, and we remain the global epicenter. On Monday, there were a record 1000 new cases of COVID-19 in Kentucky alone.

Parents across the nation are shocked, angered, and worried by the President’s call to reopen schools. When is it safe to reopen schools? According to MeidasTouch — NOT YET. The video makes this very clear. Any hope of a safe opening is dissolved by Vice President Mike Pence assuring us “we don’t want CDC guidelines” and the White House Press Secretary promising that “science should not stand in the way.”

Who needs science to protect children during a deadly pandemic? Twitter sounded the battle cry.

MeidasTouch called for 4,300 retweets in an hour. Twitter gave them 11.3 thousand and counting.

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Trump is pushing to reopen our schools.

Who is pushing to protect our children? The only ones that are coming to save us are us.

We need 4,300 retweets within an hour. Retweet and make sure we are not silenced.#ProtectOurKids pic.twitter.com/FTpyvRVHqA

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) July 18, 2020

The Golden Guys have done it again

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It seems everything they touch does turn to gold.

Absolutely POWERFUL! AND THE TRUTH PEEPS. 👇🙄🤔😔🇺🇸🌊

— Michael,👍😎✌ (@Michael83169843) July 18, 2020

You guys are absolutely amazing. Such poignant work. Thank you! 👏👏👏

— This Must Be the News (@ThisMustBeNews) July 18, 2020

These Golden Guys have done it again! We cannot send our children to school like lambs to the slaughter. If schools close for Measles then surely they must stay closed for Covid #ProtectOurKids

— Life Johnson (@adsartha) July 18, 2020

Our kids are non-negotiable

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Some Twitter users felt Trump was using the schools as an “experiment,” while many others used the data to demonstrate the grave danger of sending children back to an unsafe environment. As one user pointed out, schools closed when there were 300,000 cases of the coronavirus, and they are set to open as the number of infected hits 5 million.

#ProtectOurKids

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Israel reopened schools when they had 2.54 new confirmed cases per million population per day.

One month later, they have over 70 times that many new confirmed cases per day.

The U.S. is already at 197.76, and rising. pic.twitter.com/DRFmB2jGVK

— BeingHelpish (@BeingHelpish) July 18, 2020

The schools are an experiment…..it is sad and scary.

— Neen (@runpeacelove) July 18, 2020

Our kids are non negotiable.

— Black Lives Matter Biden 2020 (@bobbywesson) July 18, 2020

LOVE IT! Keep them coming! Brilliant! I’m just shocked as a parent there’s absolutely NO WAY I would send my child to school with Covid running rampant! How is this even debatable at this point? What part of this virus is out of control that your not getting? 🤯

— LisaRaeWhaaat (@LisaRaeWhite1) July 18, 2020

Schools closed with 300,000? cases. Now 5,000,000 cases and we should OPEN schools? No way. Trump demanding child sacrifices.
Let him attend a classroom full of untested people, changing every day for a WEEK, no masks, CLOSE UP, not 100 feet away with a mask, for an hour or two.

— alien-spawn (@normbnyc) July 18, 2020

If America is ready to reopen schools, the White House must be ready for school tours?

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Tours for everyone, right?

There is simple.

When is it safe to reopen America’s schools?

When it’s safe to reopen the White House for student tours.

When students are able to meet the Commander in Chief at the White House as part of their education, we know it’s 100% safe for schools to be open.

— JustAnotherManic2020 (@JustAManic2020) July 18, 2020

#ProtectOurKids, but don’t forget the teachers…

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Teachers aren’t expendable either.

Don’t forget the facility, administrators, and staff……PLEASE don’t forget us! 😢

— BonnieLee (@TheBonziBomber) July 18, 2020

The parents who want their kids to go to school while the pandemic is raging should also be their classroom teachers.

Just as qualified as Trump’s phoney baloney lifetime appointee judges.

— GrandPawJim (@GrandPawJim629) July 18, 2020

He says he wants to open because of mental health concerns.

Remote learning isn’t great, but it beats getting sick, seeing teachers and friends get sick, having to close AGAIN, and of course the dying.

— ee (@eeyore566) July 18, 2020

Isn’t science exactly what should stand in the way of schools reopening?

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This administration has a habit of ignoring science.

Science is exactly what should stand in the way of this! Is he crazy? CDC guidance shouldn’t be the reason? Well then WHAT SHOULD? Money? Elections? Narcissism? Politics? Kids don’t understand any of that. And never will, if they’re DEAD.

— Lorraine Chamberlain (@Chamberpaint) July 18, 2020

Chill bumps…#ProtectOurKids

— Dee F 🧷🍑🐾🐶🐱 (@gooddeeds_d) July 18, 2020

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— Jeramie Rain (@jeramiedreyfuss) July 18, 2020

Save the children — they may be running the country sooner than anyone would like

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They have already decided to sacrifice the elderly.

Save our children!! From the looks of things, they will be running this country soon than we thought, and sooner than they would like to! #ProtectOurChildren

— Nicholas Crussana (@THE_WOLF_34) July 18, 2020