The argument for reopening was that Americans could use common sense to do it safely. If the White House and Senators can’t do that, well, there goes the whole ship.
Part of the argument for reopening is that we should isolate the vulnerable and have the rest of us go about our daily lives as carefully as possible. That is not what this WH did. They put POTUS, Chris Christie and Herman Cain in the middle of super spreader events.
Days later we’re still seeing recklessness. POTUS signaling you can drive around with COVID and his Press Sec going to work for days after everyone she was in close contact with tested positive.
Avoid mass gatherings. If you’ve been exposed, presume you’re positive and stay home. If you are positive, stay home. The admin has done none of these very basic things. We still want to slow the spread, guys! We still want to protect the vulnerable!
There’s a middle ground between endless total lockdowns and open everything up immediately. I’m not sure why so few people are able to recognize that.

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7 Oct
For the last few months, I've felt a gathering wind of support for the POTUS' reelection. The psychotic actions of the Left were pushing a lot of folks. I was hearing on the ground that in a few battlegrounds (WI & PA) it was a 1-point race (after last time, my trust in polls ..)
People who voted for him last time apprehensively were going to do so with enthusiasm. People who were likely R voters during normal years who didn't vote for him were going to pull the lever for him, too.
The last week has changed that. The enthusiasm has been totally sucked away, and a lot of the "I think I am going to actually do it!" folks are like "nah..." The POTUS' handling of getting COVID has totally sucked the air out of his sails.
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I'm having 2016 flashbacks and I'm not sure why Democrats aren't.
You've tried this strategy already. "I'm not Donald Trump" didn't work for you four years ago.

This is what happens when you spend years pretending that people voted for him because of a phantom Russian conspiracy instead of accepting that he won a legitimate election.
I know what the polls are saying, but I also know what they said last time too. I also know that when I drive around suburban MD I see almost no Biden signs, and when I drive in rural VA, I see wall-to-wall Trump signs.
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I feel like if you’re a sexual offender of over 100 women and you’ve wreaked havoc the lives of countless people in a place, when you get out of prison you shouldn’t then move to the suburbs of that place. Because one of your victims may drive by you with all her kids in the car.
Maybe that’s just me. But I’m not a fucking sociopath who puts a camera in the bathroom of a religious building to get some nudies so what do I know?
Here’s to 5781! Shanah tovah everyone!
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17 Sep
Why are people blaming anyone or anything but the education system that produced this level of ignorance?
“Oh man everyone is so stupid!” No. People cannot know what they were never taught. People cannot know something like this if they haven’t made an intimate connection with it. Why aren’t all schools reading Man’s Search for Meaning, Night, Anne Frank, etc?
The issue isn’t ineffective Holocaust education. It’s ineffective education. This is just a symptom of a broken system where people sit in a room all day and walk out with the same thing they walked in with.
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14 Sep
Given their past statements on screen time I’m curious why the AAP is silent on schools pushing kids are sitting on screens all the time now.
Putting kids on screens all day every day is bad for them. We know this. And yet, I see nobody stating the obvious.
If I had gone to my pediatrician six months ago and told him that my kids were spending six hours a day on screens (but it was educational!) I would have justifiably been read the riot act about the very mixed data on children learning from screens and how detrimental they are.
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Another column I wrote about those first weeks after his death. forward.com/opinion/410432…
I was just sending this to someone and thought to tweet it too. No book helped me wrap my mind around my dad’s suicide like this one. amzn.to/32pectP
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