Thread by @bethanyshondark

Here’s @MarcusBlimi liking a popular comment about calling CPS on me. Totally normal people having a total normal day.

The comment she’s clicking like on is me saying I’m okay with my kids getting COVID. Which I am, and more people should admit. It’s statistically shown to be an insignificant event for almost every child.

The alternative is keeping them locked inside. That is being shown over and over again to be extremely dangerous for their mental and emotional health.

It is more dangerous to put your kids in a car than it is for them to have COVID. Again, that’s just statistics. If I had told you a year ago that I don’t let my children drive in a car for fear of a car accidents, you’d have thought I was nuts. Which I would’ve been.

Should've been more clear about what happened. @MarcusBlimi took a screenshot of a comment of mine on another friend's Facebook wall as well as a tweet of mine and posted it on her own Facebook in order to have her friends and followers dunk on me.

My kids are living normal, happy lives. They are socializing with kids in normal and healthy ways. I am not marinating them in fear or making them hike in the woods with masks on. Because I'm capable of rational risk analysis.

At the end of this, my kids will be some of the few kids not any worse off emotionally. I'm very proud of that. It took a lot of effort to find other parents interested in providing their kids with normalcy instead of irrational fear. It's a shame.

What if a year ago I told you b/c of my fear of seasonal flu, I keep my otherwise healthy children home, isolated from other kids, and on screens. That we did it for 11 months. You would have thought *THAT* was abusive. Statistically, flu is more dangerous than COVID for kids.

Just an FYI for everyone on this thread I’ve posted screen shots of, and for future reference: If you publicly discuss siccing CPS on my family, you are not deserved the courtesy of me blurring your name out when I tweet it. You come at me like that, you risk the consequences.

I’ll say it again, I do not care who you call asking for them to have me take these tweets down: CPS is my bright very, very red line. You knew we had mutual friends when you suggested calling CPS. You risk my non forgiving wrath when you do so.