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30 Jul, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Can we get rational healthcare reporters? It may help the constant hysteria.
If you wonder why COVID reporting has always been so … colorful, this is why. People with deep neurosis and hypochondria are the ones doing the healthcare reporting.
This is exactly right. Do I love the delta situation as the mother of a newborn? Not particularly. We all need friends (thanks @kgcarney) who we can call who can talk us down from irrational ledges with data and facts.
This is also true.

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29 Jul
With all of my free time I’d like to start a consulting company for parents suddenly realizing their kids schools aren’t reopening and their only chance at an education will happen at home or if they’re lucky at a private school if they’re allowed to open foxnews.com/media/randi-we…
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31 Mar
This week I chatted with a grandma of a four year old with special needs who is required to wear a mask all day at school. He comes home miserable with a mask soaking wet. Despite the fact that it’s developmentally inappropriate and epidemiologically unnecessary, he must wear it.
The WHO standard is that children under six should never be forced to wear a mask, and that nuance should be used in deciding if it’s necessary for children between the ages of 6-11. And yet, the CDC recommendations requiring children aged two and up to be in them in public.
There is no science behind this recommendation. As the parent of young kids, this is an infuriating time. The CDC are promoting anti-science requirements thrust upon my kids, requirements that do real harm and achieve no positive result. They are powerful unelected bureaucrats.
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18 Mar
Here’s the theme of my Twitter feed today: our responses to this pandemic have seriously harmed children. There is no scientific need for what we’ve done but nobody will do anything because kids don’t matter. Adult inertia is damaging children.
Disabled kids don’t matter.
Children thrown into crisis because of our actions don’t matter.
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18 Mar
Can we have a conversation about why America is alone in requiring young children to wear masks? Nowhere else in the world does. The @CDCgov guidelines are wildly different than the WHO, which the rest of the word follow.
I have been in communication with various Congressional offices about this and I’d like to talk to more. I have a mountain of data and anecdotes I’d like to share with staff who will listen. Hill people: Please DM me.
These kinds of stories are enraging. outkick.com/spirit-mask-au…
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14 Feb
They are never reopening schools in the same way they used to be. Kids will never just sit on a mat together and read a book with their kindergarten teacher. Kids will never amble through hallways of their high school, freely chatting. Not without paying private school tuition.
Our schools were already some of the worst in the developed world. And they are going to fall off an absolute cliff, now. This is so disspiriting for the future of our nation. Millions of kids have no hope for the future we were given, that we took for granted.
Watching the CDC give cover to the absolutely evil positions of the unions this is just... this is it.
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14 Feb
I am a very passionate homeschooler. I think it is a wonderful way of life and I not enough people fully grasp what it actually entails. I also understand it is not for everyone; not for everyone's temperament or family structure.
We first started considering homeschooling because of our dissatisfaction with the Jewish day school model and our inability to afford it given the number of children we wanted to have. And so, I very deeply understand and commiserate with families who cannot afford private.
This is a moment to advance school choice. But school choice advocates do themselves NO FAVORS by responding to the destruction of the public school model with "good." Because no, it's not good. Millions of American families are left adrift and their kids are deeply suffering.
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