Tonight, 70,000 maskless adults are shoulder to shoulder, enjoying life together in California.
Tomorrow, approximately 7,000,000 California school-children will be forced to wear masks and keep apart from each other.
Politics are a disease. End the cruelty. Unmask the kids.
Two years into this pandemic and the *latest* CDC case for masking relies on data that is "subject to at least eight limitations" and "not statistically significant."
Meanwhile, the percentage of a child's life lived during the pandemic:
..
Age 3 - 67%
Age 4 - 50%
Age 5 - 40%
..
Developmental prosopagnosia has no cure.
I only recently learned about this disorder and its lifelong consequences.
Millions of young children are forcibly masked in states like New York and California, and I fear that parents do not know what is at stake.
COVID-19 is not a top five mortality risk for children.
If keeping kids in masks was really about protecting the children, then good-faith politicians wouldn't spend time maskless in classrooms.
My governor, @GovKathyHochul, touted a maskless NY school visit via Facebook. Then she restricted the post. The next day, the rules changed. Now, she requires 24-month olds to wear masks while she routinely appears maskless in a crowd. This is not leadership in any form.
1/10
Stacey Abrams is a popular politician. She visited a Georgia grade school without a mask. Rather than speak to concerns of hypocrisy, the school principal (a PhD) deleted her tweet, then deleted her 13-year old Twitter account.
Neither action is leadership by example.
2/10
Around the world, political leaders are having gatherings that violate their own lockdown rules and are putting on masks only for the brief moment that TV cameras are rolling: video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1… - They travel freely, wine and dine like VIPs and bask in their celebrity.
The percentage of a child's life lived during the pandemic:
Age 1 - 100%
Age 2 - 100%
Age 3 - 67%
Age 4 - 50%
Age 5 - 40%
Age 6 - 33%
Age 7 - 29%
Age 8 - 25%
Segregation, inequity, forced dress, anti-socialization and "us vs. them" thinking is being presented as "normal."
1/4
History may not repeat, but it echoes.
The 1918 pandemic claimed 50,000,000 lives.
The civil unrest that followed it claimed 75,000,000 more.
In between, there was 20 years of addiction, blame, resentment, dehumanization and self-righteous morality.
2/4
Major conflicts over the last 200 years have a commonality: They were heralded by a rise in the use of the word "enemy" within literature. Today, it happens on social media.
A chronology of my COVID-19 bookmarks: It highlights the missed moments, the reversals, the inconsistencies, the false sense of control, and the gaslighting that we've endured over two years.
Note: Endorsement/refutation not implied by tweets in timeline.
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July 2019 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants continued funding to EcoHealth Alliance, in partnership with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, to conduct "in vitro and in vivo infection experiments" of bat-origin CoVs: reporter.nih.gov/search/jF4RIpD…
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Dec. 2019 - Promotional video for the Wuhan CDC shows a technician without appropriate protective gear: - thebulletin.org/2020/05/natura…