I remember this. DeSantis put what was right above the polls while the press and partisans created an entire science-free hysteria campaign to suggest opening schools was dangerous.

He then overcame a lawsuit from the unions. He was indisputably right, and they were all wrong.
It was a defining moment during the pandemic. It also put pressure on a lot of other states/the feds to do the right thing with schools. It became much harder to argue it was dangerous to open schools when Florida did it successfully and the kids there benefitted enormously.
At some point, someone will have to go back and find the articles from then about how "experts" warn a wave of infections and deaths is coming if Florida reopens schools. And how DeSantis was ignoring the (selective) experts and prioritizing politics over safety.
And for anyone claiming that this is looking back with hindsight, it's just not true.

Here was me arguing for the need to open schools in the fall of 2020 and consider the impact of closing them weeks before that Luntz tweet.

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8 Jan
Same pattern every week. It's exhausting. Local Democrats, especially Nikki Fried, spread false or misleading stories about DeSantis. National media picks it up with the same partisan framing. It gets debunked and they move on to the next one.
In this case, FL stocked up on a lot of tests during the summer surge. After that surge, demand went way down. These tests expired in Sept. When they expire, FL has to seek a waiver to still use them. They did so and got one until Dec. Many still remained as this.... (1/2)
surge started hitting. So they now have asked for the waiver once again. They were following protocols for tests that have been around for some time, but Fried deceptively made it seem like they just expired and can't be used. Media eagerly parrots again.
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5 Jan
There is no "work remote" option for schools. That should be clear.

They have chosen to refuse to do their jobs and abandon kids. Not for safety or public health, but purely out of selfishness and a preference to work from home in a job that can't actually be done from home.
They don't care if it puts working class parents in an impossible position. They don't care if causes learning loss that will take years to make up. They don't care if it's leading to a mental health crisis among kids. They don't care.

Parents need to stand up for their kids.
Who exactly do you think will be hurt by Chicago schools shutting down? Not rich families that live in the suburbs.

It's the people who can least afford to be hurt. Those that can't afford to skip work, that can't afford to fall behind in classes, that can't afford tutors etc.
Read 7 tweets
5 Jan
Watching the Chicago press conference.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez notes that schools are safe and have consistently have lower transmission rates than surrounding communities.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot going straight at the teacher's union: "CTU leadership is compelling their membership to make a decision tonight that will do real harm to families"
Lightfoot points out that the teacher's union is screwing over parents that won't find out until late tonight if their kids have somewhere to go tomorrow. And that the CTU has done this more than once over the last few years.
Read 7 tweets
4 Jan
This is Covid-19 misinformation coming from the former Surgeon General.

1) Of course the virus isn't harmless (something no one ever claimed), but even unvaccinated kids are at less-risk of severe illness or hospitalization than the very low risk of vaccinated adults.
2) There has been no significant rise in sickness among children or change in approach. Almost every data point suggests the increase in that chart is due to incidental hospitalizations due to high community infection rates:

As I pointed out yesterday, more kids die of drowning in an average year than have died from Covid-19 in almost 2 years.

And data already shows that the latest variant is even milder for kids:
Read 7 tweets
3 Jan
20k likes…

You don’t have to actually know anything about anything to have people agree with you on here.
Recently tempted to do an experiment where I create 2 grifter accounts that spread misinformation, but wasn’t worth the risk of getting my actual account banned.

1) Would be an anonymous ER Doctor who wanted to raise awareness about how vaccines are killing people.
2) Would be an anonymous ER doctor that wanted to sound the alarm on all the kids dying from Covid-19 and how society won’t stop it.

And then I would tweet the right people on both sides to see how fast both grew. I would safely bet I could get over 20k on both in 3 weeks.
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3 Jan
If you're wondering why people are abandoning states like NY, CA, and big blue cities, look no further than the number of schools that are going to be remote tomorrow in those places.
Whether it's closing schools, mandating masks on kids, or having them eat outdoors in the middle of winter, parents have every reason to be outraged and fed up with those prioritizing appeasing teacher's unions over what's best for their kids.
Want to expand w a specific example. I have friends moving their family from Chicago to FL. Chicago school just sent them Covid-19 requirements…

If their kid shows any symptoms, they need a negative PCR test to return to class (that’s 4-5 days). If positive, 10 day quarantine.
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