Falwell partially reopened the school, and now the New York Times is reporting that nearly a dozen students have symptoms.
.” Falwell, as the Times notes, fired back with a tweet calling that parent a “dummy.”
Falwell on Twitter said no students on campus are sick with coronavirus, and one off-campus tested positive “from local contacts in the community.” He also said the school was “embracing its responsibility to care for students instead of running away.” Falwell has been a coronavirus conspiracy theorist, claiming an “overreaction” to the threat is really an attempt to make President“Impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 didn’t work,”, which has consistently given voice to conspiracy theories. “And so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.”
Twitter users slammed Falwell for the opening the school and putting his students at risk ― with some suggesting that he face lawsuits or even criminal charges:
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