Again, the upshot is that there are no great options right now. That horse left the barn last spring. What we have left is the least-worst option. We are approaching *half a million dead* in this country. To fully reopen schools would be murder, full stop.
If you think we should fully reopen schools, I want you to give me your number. Fully reopening means people *will* get sick and some *will* die. So go on record with your number: how many of those deaths are you willing to accept to reopen? Tell us how many lives you'd trade.
Uni: hey, send us notices of accomplishments so we can market ourselves w/ what our faculty do!
Me in March: OK, cool. I have a book that just came out and I'm doing a bunch of appearances for it
Uni: *10 months of cricket noises*
Colleague, last week: Oh, you wrote a book?
Uni: hey, keep sending us those accomplishments! We're proud of our faculty!
Me: does 8 keynotes, chosen as scholar-in-residence for another college, book becomes amazon bestseller & ends up on "best of 2020" higher ed lists, signs contract 4 next book
Uni: *more cricket noises*
Uni: hey email us your accomplishments!
Me: ok...
Uni: Oh, cool. Thanks for getting our name out in so many places!
Also uni: *cricket noises*
Me: appears on three national higher ed forums, gives several community talks, workshops
Uni: new phone, who dis
Me:
Seeing a lot of discussion about how "we need an alternative to the GOP for rational conservatives to join/have a legitimate opposition/restore the balance/whatever." OK, maybe. But you know whose job that is? Not the Dems. Not the Left. Not Progressives. It's 'Conservatives'.1/5
Y'all talk about personal accountability, the rule of law, principled leadership. You blame everyone else's "culture" for systemic social and economic problems. You say "facts don't care about your feelings," but cry like babies when confronted w evidence of systemic racism 2/5
If you're a Republican, you built this. And if you think there should be an alternative, if it's "not your party anymore," then do what you've told everyone else to do for decades: pull yourself up by your bootstraps, take personal responsibility, and do the fucking work. 3/5
You "move forward" and "let the past be the past" now, and in 10 years someone's gonna be playing the role of Paul Von Hindenburg appointing Josh Hawley chancellor.