In 2022 @nytimes, interviewed me for a story about parents who changed their politics due to Covid-19 school closures & related mandates.

I told the reporter I was a NYC Democrat who voted for Biden.

The article linked me to a "Stop the Steal" group.

I demanded & received a correction (they also slurred me as an "anti-vaxxer" because I opposed Covid vaccine mandates for kids).

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1/ Today's @nytimes features a story about my good friend @MaudMaron- we've fought alongside each other for 4 years now- in '20 to reopen schools, '21 to end child Covid mask/vax mandates & for the last 2 years to restore American values to our schools.

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Over the past few months, I've tried to elevate voices from the HoH & deaf community. So little consideration has been given to their struggles to navigate public life with mask mandates. I have heard from a number of HoH community & advocates via DM's.
1/ Though until last week, I had yet to encounter an HoH person who was personally affected by masks.

We were on a family trip to Southern CA, staying at a small hotel. One morning, I went to the lobby to get breakfast items for the kids. I was late, so the front desk staff...
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"Sit at assigned table only. No passing of food items between tables. No loud talking. Do not take anything from the dining room."

This is a Minnesota prison's lunch rules. Even, so they are less restrictive than the school lunch in America.
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1/ Today kids are lunching on cold, frozen ground, spaced apart on buckets, on floors of gyms & hallways or, if they're lucky, silent & spaced 6 feet apart, facing same direction in school cafeterias.

Their school meals are devoid of joy, humanity & communal nature of eating.
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#MaskLikeAKid asked the Hard-of-Hearing community how masking has affected both parents & kids.

A deaf mom of deaf children (who wished to remain anonymous) shared her story: "Every gain my hearing aids give me, the masks take away.

I am back to being a dependent person.
1/4 I take my hearing child with me on important errands so she can do the listening for me.

I see my other 2 HOH kids struggling in class and with making friends and it breaks my heart.

But they love school and don't want to give it up!
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.@AAPPres @AmerAcadPeds You knew this all along & denied it. Now *LISTEN* to the students:

"It's been really important to me to see my teachers' faces and see their face light up when someone gets a question right."

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#MaskLikeAKid "You feel like you have more of a connection with the teacher when you can see their facial expression and the emotion towards what they're teaching."

This is Melanie Gabriel, A Washington State HS freshman with a 504/disability. Last year she fought to reopen schools, & now due to mask mandates, she is unable to attend school, herself.



Listen to her story. Share it with your kids.
#MaskLikeAKid
1/4 Melanie courageously talks about her awakening:

"I opened my eyes & realized that what the public schools were putting us through with the lockdowns & online school was *torture.* It has this horrible impact on our mental health... I got out & I got loud."

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Where are @apoorva_nyc's editors after last week's outrageously misleading article & retractions?

Today's piece nytimes.com/2021/10/12/hea… is another mess! (thread) In which, @apoorva_nyc refers to "so-called natural immunity." It’s 'so called' because it exists! @CDCgov even documents it.

“Natural immunity is acquired from exposure to the disease organism through infection with the actual disease.”

cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-g…