In her home town (also mine, Newton, MA), she was unable to have any impact on schools (she wrote a letter).
If she can’t open our schools in our wealthy near-Covid-free town, she sure isn’t going to be able to do it elsewhere.
When you select for failure, you get more of it.
When the CDC stops misconstruing everything about COVID to hide its role in using the pandemic as a political tool, kids in blue states will return to schools, and people will return to work. Not before.
There are many who think that if we just allow one of the little white lies, it will be ok, that will erode the artifice. It won’t. I can tell you from where I live.
If you allow the fiction that they know how to control it to persist, it just grows.
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COVID has been politicized. Children and families in blue states are paying the price. On average, in red states, 3x as many children have access to 100%, 5-day/week in-person learning as in blue. Nearly 4x as many children in blue states are 100% remote (sources @ end)
2/n This politicization is not saving lives. The average deaths/million in red states is only slightly higher than those in blue states, despite measures that are nearly twice as strict. Follow me for state-by-state data…
3/n 11 states have fewer than 10% of students w/access to 5-day per week in-person learning. All are blue save 1. 10 states have 70% or more children w/access to 100% in-person learning. All are red states.
Do not show #NormPorn where people are defying local rules. This will only emboldens those who say the infection is driven by small pockets of recalcitrant anti-maskers.
3/n
When posting photos or videos of businesses, do not allow the businesses to be recognizable, as the mask mafia is everywhere, even in sane places.
Do use video if at all possible, and start with video, as it captures people.
1/many
Last weekend I escaped to Florida from Massachusetts, the fascist hellhole I am cursed to call home.
Everything you have heard is true. They have real people there, not the zombies that people the blue wastelands.
People smile, they laugh, they acknowledge you. Join me
2/n
I was in Miami, where there is a mask mandate which is mercifully unenforceable. On the boardwalk, 75% of people were un-masked. In town 50% of people on the sidewalks were un-masked. Miami has lower activity than much of the state, at 60% of normal cai.burbio.com/countyoverview/
3/n It was enough for humanity-starved soul like me.
The restaurants were packed, no plexi-glass in sight, and only those catering to the most affluent (and hence “liberal”) appeared to have any reduced capacity at all.
@DLeonhardt 1/n
Don’t you find it even a little odd lecturing other states on how to handle COVID, when NYC, where your publisher resides, has the highest death count in the world 3170/million? That is almost 3x the national average of 1271.
@DLeonhardt 2/n
It is more than every single state. In fact, it is more than double every single state except, NJ, NY, MA, RI, MS, CT, SD, ND, LA, AZ, and IL. It is 3x higher than 20 states.
@DLeonhardt 3/n
It is 4x higher than 10 states: NC, OK, KY, NH, VA, WA,UT, OR, MA, AL, VT, and HI. It is more than double every single country in Europe—and NYC has a larger population than 28 out of 48 countries.
1/n Over the weekend, I experienced a truly amazing thing—a functioning society. I left dystopian Massachusetts for Utah, and in Utah I found a packed airport and the closest thing to normal I have experienced in 10 months.
2/n I went to busy restaurants every night, and two of the three nights got to listen to live music, including—gasp—live singing and a band! After skiing, we sat around a firepit drinking, and met new people.
3/n I met a friend whom I haven’t seen in a year and gave her a hug, without either of us giving a second thought. I met family and extended family; all greeted us with a warm embrace, a wide smile, and quickly ushered us inside.