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20 Aug, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Read the whole thing. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
So many people seem to think the masking of kids is temporary. Listen to what they're saying. There's nothing temporary about it. nymag.com/intelligencer/… Thank you for this excellent piece, @davidzweig.
#FF @davidzweig. He's doing great work and should have a much larger following on here.

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12 Sep
On one hand, I'm glad that a lot of hard truths are being acknowledged now. On the other hand, I rewrote this sentence like 4 times to take out all the f-words. nytimes.com/2021/09/08/mag…
A year ago I seethed in the @TheSpectator (spectatorworld.com/topic/children…) that poor kids would be left behind while the wealthy would hire tutors and be fine. Now we know it has happened:
This is the education commissioner for Tennessee. Sorry but no, it is someone's fault. It's the fault of every single person who kept schools closed. Period.
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11 Sep
.@SenatorTimScott needs to give lessons on selfies. Finds those angles! Image
The Senator breaking down as he thanks the first responders in the room. @SenatorTimScott Image
He’s crushing it. I hope someone is recording this speech.
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10 Sep
A few summers ago, my husband's cousin told me a story. At her daughter's day camp, the counselors told the kids to sit on the ground outside. Some of the kids said "it's hot" but all did as they were told. Many of them burned their thighs. So yes kids are fine with masks.
I've used this story as an example to my kids that you do not listen to stupid rules. Do not burn your legs because you don't want to cause a stir. Cause that stir! Kids are natural rule followers, they want to please grown-ups.
My 8yo, the most rebellious masking-wise, said it was other kids forcing him to mask up at school last year. They would run after him at recess and tell him to fix his mask.
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2 Aug
"And, of course, kids are so much better about masks than we would think..."

"Not mine. Mine are worse. They hate every second of being masked and say all of their friends do too but are afraid to challenge authority."- me, every time someone tries this.
Kids want to please. But there does not exist a human, child or otherwise, who prefers to wear a mask. People may have been driven to fear, and therefore mask in unnecessary situations, but kids do it because adults say so.
With all masking, the question that needs to be asked is: when does this end? If the answer is "when COVID ends" then people need to understand that they, and their kids, will be masking forever. We may never get to COVID zero. Never.
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1 Aug
I’m quoted in this story re Chris Cuomo criticizing DeSantis. Chris broke quarantine while sick with Covid & his brother had worst Covid response in USA. “Perhaps the Cuomos should take a break from telling the rest of us how we should be handling COVID" foxnews.com/media/chris-cu…
I feel very defensive of Florida, and of Gov. DeSantis, because under his leadership Florida gave our family nearly 5 months of sanity and stability at a time when NY refused to. city-journal.org/a-lifelong-new…
Meanwhile Gov. Cuomo had highest death count in country, wrote a book celebrating himself, locked us down again when that success turned out to be fake, all while his brother was breaking quarantine WHILE SICK, brother’s wife having maskless yoga while gyms closed and on and on.
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28 Jul
zillow.com/fl/
Prediction: NY will see a spike in cases in the fall, right after we’re done congratulating ourselves for good behavior unlike those terrible southern states who are clearly not as virtuous as us. Spike will be blamed on schools. (This is optimistic version where schools open!)
OMGGGGG we are in the Bronx and the car in front of us has a magnet from the school our kids went to in Florida. This is a sign from G-d, right?
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