Thread by @karenvaites

I have numerous points of disagreement with this “mistakes were made, let’s not waste energy relitigating them” framing.

But here’s #1:

👉 The same people are still making the same mistakes.

Leaders & journalists.

You can’t put kids first if you aren’t putting kids first.

https://twitter.com/anya1anya/status/1503760232979349507

Can someone find me the leaders/journalists talking about the communications hot mess at the CDC with regard to toddler masking?

They added a Note to their site 8 days ago. Who’s demanding clarifications / updates?

I just see parents / leaders like Oster talking about it.

https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1503802274069553164

When @NYCMayor said that he is still masking toddlers to “save our babies,” and because under 5’s are hospitalized at a higher rate, who was correcting the record?

@daniela127 @dotcom2020s & other parents.

Some of us were correcting reporters on the matter. @AppletoZucchini

Maybe if we saw a real pivot from leaders and (most) journalists towards evidence-centered discourse RE COVID and kids, I’d feel like a course-correction had happened, and I’d feel less need for hard conversations to “relitigate” how we got here.

But those pivots have not come.

So here we are, unable to trust the reasonableness and judgment of the people who allowed and enabled American Exceptionalism on schools and masking 2-4 year olds.

They didn’t center kids / evidence-based policies before & I don’t trust them to now, absent a public About Face.

Y’all know I could go on about this.

👉 Has any leader, or more than one journalist, questioned the CDC’s flawed speech milestone change?

Etc etc.

But you get the point.

https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1494861832506462208