Not a self-awareness guy:"I confess I dont think that strategy is going to work at all. There will not be Nuremberg-like justice being meted out over mask mandates. Ever. Im still of the belief that most pandemic excesses were due to panic, not plotted." nationalreview.com/2022/01/what-i…
2/ He's a reasonable person apparently because he thinks in most cases govts and school boards did mask mandates to control COVID rather than as a plot to end liberty. Thanks, dude. He, a writer-controversialist, is at least reassured by the fact that this battle is ...
3/ "professionals versus workers". And he's one of the workers. He'll probably be forming an NRO union soon given that level of class consciousness. Clearly masking is a highly divisive issue in our society. Plenty of people are done with it. But what I keep coming back ...
4/ to in these stories of the people versus the elite at the local school board meeting is that SCHOOL BOARDS ARE ELECTED. There have been lots of recall efforts at school boards over this and other issues. And liberals often get upset about that. But that's democracy.
5/ Sometimes elected officials get really out of step with their constituents. And often in local government recall exists as way to address that problem. The funny thing in this article was that board wasn't even really focused on masks in this meeting. They're off ...
6/ making decisions about the schools - which remember continue to exist regardless of masks or no masks. In any case, with no apparent irony he lamented that he doesn't believe there will ever be "Nuremberg-like justice" for people for implemented mask mandates.
7/ And I'm not sure what else there is to say beyond that.
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I'm amazed that they're going this route. Cawthorn's lawyer: "Congress passed the 1872 Amnesty Act, which removed all persons whatsoever from the disability under Section 3 as a result of engaging in an insurrection or rebellion." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/madison-c… via @TPM
2/ First of all this appears to grant, at least as matter of argument that Cawthorn committed rebellion against the United States. I haven't looked at the specific statute but I'm pretty certain it applied to THAT rebellion. Not future acts of whackadoodle bullshit.
3/ I'm not even sure that would be possible inasmuch as that would in effect be amending the amendment and you can't do this with a statute. I'm not holding my breath that Cawthorn is going to be barred from running. But this is a far more entertaining defense than I ...
I'm hoping that fringe benefit of omicron will be level of population immunity that will allow some relaxing of precautions. But I continue to marvel at the folks here on Twitter demanding that we commit to doing so now. I mean, maybe wait and see what actually happens?
2/ I'm reminded of back in the late spring when most people were eligible to be vaccinated there was a chorus of demands that everyone commit to never wearing mask. Because if you didn't you were some anti-science weirdo. Certainly was understandable to stop. But I remember ...
3/ thinking, this whole thing has been pretty weird and a lot of times we thought we knew things we didn't. So I'm going to keep masking indoors till we see how this shakes out. Well, sure enough, a wait and see approach made sense. This isn't pro-NPI or anti-NPI.
Axios reports that @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy says he’ll withhold evidence to protect coup plotters who tried to overthrow the government.
2/ Remember that McCarthy likely is one of few with direct knowledge that Trump intentionally barred the US military from stopping the insurrection with the specific goal of helping the insurrectionists ransack the capital. McCarthy's got the evidence. Refusing to testify.
So to give you a sense of how it’s going. My son’s NYC public high school had 30% attendance today.
2/ a bit more context here. there are obviously lots of different issues in terms of health for students, for teachers, staff. but one point that gets less attn in the public conversation is that for most of the schools in nyc right now most of what they’re doing is doing …
3/ COVID test, organizing and administering isolations, sending kids home with COVID. Meanwhile large numbers of teachers and staff are out with COVID, many students are out with COVID and many families are keeping their kids home to avoid getting COVID. it’s important …
A deep conventional wisdom has it that lib Twitter is a hotbed of demands for school closures. the reality is almost diametrically opposite. The country’s most esteemed and influential liberal/cosmopolitan publications have been dominated by the voices of highly …
2/ educated, affluent and mostly white people demanding schools never close even for brief periods almost always in the name of minority and/or marginalized students. Meanwhile in the pre-vaccine period, it was precisely these communities which were most resistant to going …
3/ back to in person education. The staunchest voices against school closures of any sort have been people with PhDs working from home. Just speaking for myself I think it made sense to go back to in person once the country was broadly vaxed which it was by last …