f retailers are allowed to operate, schools should be, too.
The risk of children getting sick is “extremely, extremely low,” DeSantis said, and if fast food eateries and hardware stores could operate as “essential” businesses during the coronavirus pandemic, then schools should reopen as well.
“We spent months saying that there were certain things that were essential,” DeSantis told reporters in Jacksonville. “That included fast food restaurants. It included Walmart. It included Home Depot.”
“But if all that is essential, then educating our kids is absolutely essential,” he said. “They have been put to the back of the line in some respects.”