The definitive history on the disaster of Covid school closings is here.

Substack ^ | 4/25/2025 | Alex Berenson

[Sir_Humphrey]

David Zweig is a novelist and journalist who lives near New York City and was a early skeptic of Covid lockdowns and school closings. (In other words, he’s me, but nicer.)

Somehow, Zweig didn’t get canceled. In 2020 he became one of only a few legacy media writers to push for school reopenings. Now he has a new book out: An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions. It demolishes the false narrative that public health bureaucrats and teachers’ unions were just doing their best at the time with the information they had.

I talked to Zweig Wednesday about why he wrote the book, why you should read it, why the bureaucrats should be so ashamed of themselves, and what the closures cost kids. I hope you find his answers as interesting as I did.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bureaucrats; covid; education; lockdowns; schoolclosings; substackkaren; substackloser; substackwhiner; tyranny

[Sir_Humphrey]

History will not look kindly on what we did to our kids during this "crisis".

[systemjim]

Like, I couldn’t read it—Like, I just can’t get past reading the word “like” all the time. Like, do you know what I mean?

[ridesthemiles]

COMPOUND ALL OF THIS WITH “PARTICIPATION TROPHIES” & WE HAVE RUINED A GENERATION....

[Sir_Humphrey]

Hey I didn’t write it

[goo goo g'joob]

last lines in the article -

Q: Could this happen again?

A: No, but something equally stupid could.

[freds6girlies]

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