Bayonne High School’s Turning Point USA shows love for first responders

By Jillian Risberg

This is the new normal, something akin to an apocalypse. Well, for a group of students at Bayonne High School — instead of sitting idly by, they are shining a light through all the madness that has overtaken the world and right here at home.

Turning Point USA, the student group that promotes freedom, fiscal responsibility, free markets and limited government launched an online campaign today with several members holding signs to proudly thank our first responders for their endless efforts to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The medical personnel and police are on the front lines, everyday — as the crisis reaches its peak, intensive care units note historically high intake, and residents of New Jersey and beyond have been ordered to shelter in place. 

“Though the lockdown has been hard on students, with some who would regularly skip class even missing going to school, we know it has been really hard on the ambulance corps, EMTs, doctors and nurses who have been working non-stop to save lives,” says Petra John, a junior at the school and founder of the TPUSA chapter.

According to John, this is not to overlook the police who, in addition to their regular duties have to enforce social distancing, nor the firefighters, all of whom have to care for their own health while continuing to protect the public.

“Which is why TPUSA at Bayonne High School wanted to share our appreciation to all of our heroic first responders,” she says.