I don't know even know where to start with Walensky. She is atrocious at her job. Walensky said schools should open in Feb 2021, then was cowered into reversing herself by WH (pressured by Randi). But oh there's more.
She said pregnant women should be vaccinated and then 3 days later *walked that back.* She continues to push masking kids despite all the available data (incl real world data from, oh, Europe) saying it's a largely unnecessary step.
When I think about summer 2021 and who threw shade on vaccines, it's not Trump or DeSantis. It's Walensky saying the virus will probably mutate past vaccine protection, or saying 10% will be reinfected or vaccinated people will have higher viral loads. And that was just July.
Walensky is on an emotional roller-coaster which, as head of the CDC, was not particularly calming for Americans. Her half-crying "impending doom" comment *after vaccines were out* and her telling her son no camp in summer 2021, I mean, we don't need that kind of hysteria.
Both Walensky and Fauci are uniquely terrible at their jobs. They're not our saviors, they're our roadblocks. Without them we would have been in a much better, healthier place by now. They keep pushing things that don't work and stepping all over their own messaging. So bad.

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24 Sep
I'm going to have a thread of good people running for school boards all over the country. Send me recs!
.@lvlewitinn is running for school board in Tenafly, New Jersey.
.@ishapiro is running in Falls Church, Virginia. shapiro4fallschurch.org
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24 Sep
A NYC friend has a 2nd grader who was "exposed" to someone with COVID in his classroom on 9/20. He will not be able to return to school until 10/1. If the exposure happened on 9/27, new rule say he won't have to quarantine at all. Best part is...his brother still going to school.
So much is so, so deeply stupid and anti-science and it kills me that people are just taking it. This kid is losing two weeks of school because of pure idiocy. It's an embarrassment. Everyone involved in this policy-making should be fired. Everyone quiet is pathetic.
Why does every change take weeks to implement? Why can't new quarantine rules start the day they're announced? How did you people vote for Bill de Blasio for two freaking terms with a straight face?
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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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