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What Her Son Drew Disturbed a Liberal So Much She Wrote an Op-Ed Shredding the Masks in Schools Narrative
Townhall.com ^ | 28 January A.D. 2022 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 01/28/2022 7:11:06 PM PST by lightman

I had to read this twice. Did a feminist really write this? Did a liberal really write this? Did the San Francisco Chronicle really publish this? Yes—and it's prime material to get the woke mob all huffy. The issue about COVID, masks, and schools continues to be an issue for liberal America. They want masks all the time, among other things. What is clear is that it’s screwing up kids. You all know this—the mental health crisis that will result of the adults overreacting to a virus with a 99-plus percent survival rate will last for generations. It’s not reported often since it chips away at the liberal media’s fear narrative, but kids are committing suicide. Anxiety and depression have reached historic highs among these demographics—and no one seems to care. We have fake news stories about hospitals packed with kids infected with COVID. Not true. It’s also not true that COVID has killed scores of kids either. Around 900 kids have died from the virus since the start of the pandemic. It’s no less tragic, but it puts things into perspective concerning risk. If we’re so worried about COVID deaths among kids, where was the outrage when 200-1,200 of them died every year from the flu.

These are some of the points Jennifer Block cited in her op-ed. Block is a liberal writer and feminist. She was an editor for Ms. Magazine. She’s had her work published in The Nation, Mother Jones, Slate, Jezebel, Huffington Post, The Guardian, and Elle. She has a book calling for a feminist revolution in the health care industry. She’s a hardcore liberal, which is why such a piece could make her a prime target for cancellation. She made a level-headed swipe at the COVID insanity at our schools. She also primed it with a nice analysis of the insanity that’s come from the Left when the experts deliver ‘good news’ about COVID. She also included what her young son brought home that made her question the current COVID regime in the education system (via SF Chronicle):

The recent attempt by director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, to frame risk landed her in similar cancellation territory. On “Good Morning America” on Jan. 7, she called it “really encouraging news” that the majority of COVID-19 deaths are concentrated among people with several comorbidities (obviously not encouraging for those who have them) and for her insensitivity, was called a eugenicist.

Somehow, the conversation we should be having about how we can move forward with a virus that became uncontrollable and inescapable has turned into a referendum on equity: If you accept the inevitability of infections, you must not care about the people who will suffer most.

Walensky’s point should not have been controversial: Some people are at higher risk than others — from early on, data has shown that the risk of death increases by orders of magnitude with age and disease. That has bearing on public health policy and how people live their lives: some may want to take more precautions than others. Similarly, the physicians urging a return to normal are valiantly trying to give us some perspective, to contextualize how extremely tiny the risk of COVID is for children, much lower than the risks most families take every day and equivalent to the risk of flu we all lived with maskless before COVID.

Meanwhile, kids are bearing the brunt of restrictions: all-day masking and “punitive mask culture,” as one of the many physicians speaking out recently put it; disruption to their social and emotional learning, to literacy and speech, and worrisome impacts on their mental health. My 8-year-old son brought home a self-portrait this week — it had no nose or mouth.

Should little humans see each other’s faces and see their teachers’ faces? If our answer is “yes, but not until everyone is safe,” we need to put some numbers behind that rhetoric. In every recent winter except the last, between 200 and 1,200 kids in the U.S. died of the flu, the physicians point out. During the entire pandemic, some 900 deaths of children are attributed to COVID. Any death of a young person is achingly tragic. But when will all children be “safe”?

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We have to ask: How have so many European countries managed to keep kids in school and barefaced and their death rates lower than ours?

In evidence-based medicine, the burden of proof is on the intervention, not the norm. The norm is seeing human faces. The intervention is endless masking. We should have better studies by now to inform recommendations, but at the very least we need open dialogue.

[…]

The goal of “ending COVID” was once laudable, but at this point it’s driven by a mixture of naivete, hubris and entitlement. We can all be furious and devastated by the death and illness this virus is still causing, but we can’t misread people’s desire for normal as indicating callous disregard for human life. One of the first rules of parenting is to never take out your own anger on your children. That’s what turns us into monsters.

That’s right. Read the whole piece, but I agreed with nearly every word of it. The canary in the coalmine here is that any call to ‘return to normal’ will be met with liberal America’s favorite attack line: you’re racist. The ‘urgency for equity’ will be the new saber-rattling cry when these draconian measures are rolled back. Racist, ableist, classist—these are the terms to get familiar with soon. Returning to normal is white supremacy, says the rich white liberals who only whine about fake problems all day. If anything, that’s the epitome of…privilege.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arth; california; children; covid; covid1984; covidfreaks; education; highanxiety; mask; masks; neuroses; sanfrancisco; school
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1 posted on 01/28/2022 7:11:06 PM PST by lightman
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To: lightman
The goal of “ending COVID” was once laudable, but at this point it’s driven by a mixture of naivete, hubris and entitlement.
2 posted on 01/28/2022 7:13:32 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Huh. I guess even Leftists have a breaking point.


3 posted on 01/28/2022 7:18:37 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: lightman

“Similarly, the physicians urging a return to normal are valiantly trying to give us some perspective, to contextualize how extremely tiny the risk of COVID is for children, much lower than the risks most families take every day and equivalent to the risk of flu we all lived with maskless before COVID.”

Which makes me wonder why they are pushing immunization for young kids so much. Doesn’t even make sense from a leftist political perspective.


4 posted on 01/28/2022 7:23:52 PM PST by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: piytar

maybe it’s a disguised long-term sterilization agent ... painless but accomplishes the same goal in slow-motion ...


5 posted on 01/28/2022 7:31:20 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: lightman
Johns Hopkins Team: There Are Still ZERO Covid Deaths Among Healthy Kids Jul 21, 2021

Speech Therapist: 364% Surge in Baby and Toddler Referrals Thanks to Mask Wearing
Young children developing cognitive problems due to widespread use of face coverings.

6 posted on 01/28/2022 7:31:23 PM PST by TigersEye (Ashli Babbitt was murdered)
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To: lightman

How about broadening it to be 100% correct and accurate:

A masked person is an abused person.


7 posted on 01/28/2022 7:32:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: piytar
Which makes me wonder why they are pushing immunization for young kids so much. Doesn’t even make sense from a leftist political perspective

The land of the midnight sun is much more enlightened: Both Norway and Sweden have said they will not vax young children.

8 posted on 01/28/2022 7:33:31 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: metmom

arth ping.


9 posted on 01/28/2022 7:33:57 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Bkmk


10 posted on 01/28/2022 7:34:16 PM PST by kelly4c
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To: Secret Agent Man

A masked person is dehumanized.

And that is abusive.


11 posted on 01/28/2022 7:34:58 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

We can all be furious and devastated by the death and illness this virus is still causing,
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Obviously not furious enough, Fauci is still on my TV telling us what to do about the pandemic he helped create.


12 posted on 01/28/2022 7:35:33 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Tacrolimus1mg

Won’t change who Theyvote for


13 posted on 01/28/2022 7:36:33 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: bankwalker

Only for the most part. Only the left is taking it.


14 posted on 01/28/2022 7:38:46 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: lightman

Driving down the interstate in our free state. I pass a car from OR. They’re both wearing masks in their car. Slaves.


15 posted on 01/28/2022 7:44:54 PM PST by lurk (u)
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To: lurk; cableguymn

Masks are the Democraps MAGA hats.


16 posted on 01/28/2022 7:48:42 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman; Conservative4Life

17 posted on 01/28/2022 7:55:36 PM PST by Trillian
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To: TigersEye
The politicization and exploitation of the plandemic started as a tactic to oust Pres Trump and once again the laws of unintended (?) consequences took over
Young children developing cognitive problems due to widespread use of face coverings.
Have any "experts" considered the negative impact masks have on kids with speech or hearing impairments? As if they don't have enough problems with communication and comprehension skills? Sounds like some ADA violations here. And they have the chutzpah to accuse anyone seeking a return to some semblance of normalcy ableist?
18 posted on 01/28/2022 7:56:57 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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To: lightman

It’s their clean version of the pink hat.


19 posted on 01/28/2022 7:58:35 PM PST by cableguymn
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To: lurk
Driving down the interstate in our free state. I pass a car from OR. They’re both wearing masks in their car. Slaves.
Here in FL I saw an "organ donor" on a crotch rocket, lane splitting popping wheelies and riding recklessly. No helmet but by golly he had his mask on like a good little obedient subject 😖😖😡
20 posted on 01/28/2022 8:00:29 PM PST by Impala64ssa (If a liar's pants really did catch on fire ABC, CNN and MSNBC would be more fun to watch)
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