I’m really annoyed by the new talking point which is that “yes, we now know that school lockdowns did more harm than good but when we advocated for closures, we were operating with imperfect information and made the best choice available at that time.”
This is gaslighting of the most primitive kind. I took my kid on the first playdate of the quarantine on April 1, 2020. By that time, I already knew COVID wasn’t dangerous to children. There were already studies – 4 of them at that time – that this was no danger whatsoever to kids. By August 2020, the evidence was absolutely overwhelming that children didn’t suffer from or transmit COVID. I understand being unsure in April, but in August the amount of evidence was absolutely staggering. There was never a single – not one – study showing COVID as dangerous to children. It’s physiologically impossible for it to harm any but the already extremely ill children.
And I’m talking 2020. The people who claim they didn’t have the information that would have let them stop calling for lockdowns in August of 2021 are simply lying. The history of COVID is being rewritten right in front of us. Nobody took responsibility, which enables them to keep lying. “Oh, I didn’t know them what I know now!” Well, if you really didn’t know, you are an incompetent. Why are we still listening to somebody so darn useless?
Crowds of people turned out in the streets in the summer of 2020 to deface a statue of a 17th-century Catholic priest that was supposedly doing great damage to black kids. But when those black kids were saddled with irrecoverable learning loss because of lockdowns, nobody gave a crap.
People should take a long, hard look at themselves.
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