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Daniela Jampel

9 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read

Ahem.

SURVEILLANCE TESTING DOES NOT KEEP SCHOOLS OPEN. IT KEEPS THEM CLOSED.

Thank you.

I honestly, and in good faith, do not understand how testing asymptomatic kids keeps schools open. Finding asymptomatic cases requires classrooms to quarantine and keeps healthy kids out of school. I am willing to entertain good faith arguments to convince me otherwise.

https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1435971032666591235?s=19

This guy gets it:

https://twitter.com/AstorAaron/status/1435971032666591235?s=19

Of over 36k students quarantined last year, 192 tested positive. That's one half of one percent. And some of those were false positives or coincidences.

In other words: we kept 36000 kids home from school for 10 days for basically no reason. pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/147/5/…

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This afternoon, I was contacted by a producer at a network news show asking if I wanted to be interviewed about "the new CDC school and mask guidance." I readily agreed. 🧵

Before we get any further I want to make my point upfront: the media has a story to sell, and the story is not "everything is ok and will continue to be ok." The story that sells is one of fear and panic.

Back to my story: I spoke about how my biggest concern about the upcoming school year was that it would be a 3rd year of disrupted school. That what kids needed was normalcy, and that in our post-vaccine world a return to normalcy was not only possible, but also necessary.

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23 Feb

Infrequently discussed long term effects of closed schools:

* Public opinion in blue areas turning against teacher's unions;

* Public sentiment increasingly viewing unions as a big money special interest group;

* School boards filled with people who are anti-union, pro-school choice;

* States defunding public ed as they pass laws that "fund students, not systems;"

* Public ed defunding itself as there's a massive shift of people out of public ed into charters and private schools.

Oh and let's not forget:

* Ds losing any gains they may have made with suburban white women in 2018 & 2020.

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@daniela127

13 Feb

I am a registered Democrat. I have voted in every election (primary & general) since I turned 18. I have never once, not ever, voted for a Republican. I thought after Trump I never would.

Guys, this is really bad. Really, really bad.

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Every day I meet someone who thinks that once teachers are vaxd, schools will magically go back to full time. But there is zero effort to tie teacher vax to open schools. A Rep Sen attempted to tie vax to a commitment to open schools. Was it a cynical move? Yes. But also smart.

D success in 2018 and 2020 relied on suburban (white) women who aren't really Democrats, but they didn't like Trump. D success in 2022 (including holding onto a majority in Congress) will depend on these women.

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