Thread by @HuffmanLabDU

🔥 by @DrAliceVirgil1 in @PsychToday. She argues indoor school meals are not only dangerous during COVID, but further destabilize a sense of truth and reality among gaslit students.

Short 🧵 from article + links on lunchtime risk
(ht @kprather88)
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/compas…

2/ "The term gaslighting comes from the 1944 film Gaslight ... invalidating her reality and understanding of her experiences."

"Trust in the person or entity doing the gaslighting is essential for it to be an effective tool to undermine a person’s entire perception of reality."

3/ "Yet, every day in countless lunchrooms across America, as both the New York and Chicago school districts have noted, children are eating and talking loudly, unmasked, in crowded indoor spaces without proper ventilation."

https://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1436080249356259328

4/ "In the case of crowded school lunchrooms, deliberate ignorance of how the virus spreads is communicated by remaining silent about this everyday lunchroom event, while incongruent actions and false assurances are provided elsewhere, such as ..."

5/ "...emphasizing mask compliance in the classrooms and signs posted to keep physical distance. Students' reality of being in a physical space known to be unsafe—a maskless, crowded lunchroom—is denied by the institution by not providing protections or help."

6/ "If we are going to continue to have students eat in their lunchrooms at school in the midst of high community transmission rates, we need to face some uncomfortable truths."

7/ 🔥 "As in the film Gaslight, [schools silent about lunchroom risk undermine] students’ sense of truth about how the virus spreads. No wonder our kids are depressed, anxious, and traumatized. They’ve been gaslit by the institutions charged with their safety.": @DrAliceVirgil1

8/ Here's are several threads I wrote motivating awareness & action wrt indoor meal risk in schools.

Start of thread:

https://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1436080238237159426

It's not just about going outside, layering airborne mitigations inside are critical too:

https://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1436080269421731843

https://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1429482861057384449

9/ I share the sense of urgency with @DrAliceVirgil1 who wrote the article above. I'm frustrated with frequent tweets back that say eating outside during cold winters can't be done. Maybe. But let's focus on the urgent risk first and let that one come.

https://twitter.com/HuffmanLabDU/status/1436082974844350468