Children don’t tend to be made as sick by the virus as adults, and child deaths of COVID-19 are rare, but children still stand to lose a lot if an outbreak ripples through their schools — and it will ripple without any protections in place.

Johansen has used his public podium to advocate against pandemic public health measures. Moreover, he and his wife, an officer on the Aroostook County GOP committee (who became symptomatic at about the same time her husband), refrained from getting the COVID vaccine and shared posts on Facebook downplaying the pandemic and mocking vaccination.

The visibility of Olympic protests — particularly around questions of Black rights — escalated during the 1960s. This was by design. Harry Edwards, who taught sociology at San Jose State, believed that by disrupting sporting events, African American athletes could confront White America about racial inequality and discrimination.

In the 1950s, DACOWITS suggested that married servicewomen receive basic allowance for quarters, a financial benefit given to servicemen to support their housing arrangements. The DOD ignored this recommendation because at that time most Americans believed men should be a family’s primary breadwinner, and giving married servicewomen this financial benefit would imply that their husbands were incapable of taking care of them.