🧵Since @realDonaldTrump's EO to protect women's sports & the NCAA policy change, here’s what’s happened in women's sports (kinda feels like not much progress!)

March: Lia/Will Thomas said trans athletes should make the rules for everyone.

“It has to be the athletes deciding for themselves where they feel most affirmed and most comfortable.” 1/ The lawsuit against the NCAA by female swimmers forced to compete against Thomas? Still unresolved.

The lawsuit by female volleyball players against the Mountain West Conference? Still unresolved. 2/

(read about it all here: )jennifersey.substack.com/p/despite-pres…

In 1985, I suffered a broken femur on the uneven bars at the gymnastics World Championships.


Following my injury, the rules were changed to allow coaches on the podium in international competitions so that they could help an athlete who had fallen. Just a little push could mean the difference between a head landing and a regular old fall. In 2001 the women's vault equipment was changed -- also to help avoid serious injuries. It went from being a very narrow "horse" to what is called a "table" - which runs vertically instead of horizontally. And prevents hands from missing or slipping and then landing on the head. (I trained and competed on the "horse" and did this head landing at least once a practice and I'm lucky I never suffered a serious head or spinal injury.)

🧵Levi Strauss heir Daniel Lurie is readying for an SF mayoral run.

"Apart from his work with Tipping Point Community, Lurie is mostly known for his ties to the Levi Strauss fortune."

sfgate.com/politics/artic… Lurie has close ties to @GavinNewsom (his wife works as the governor's Director of Protocol) in addition to Levi's. He is the son of the single largest Levi's shareholder and his wife worked at the company for many years in Corporate Communications.

“According to educators, this will be a kind of lost generation: under-educated to the point where it drags down their future, and ours.”

Some of us said this from the beginning. We were blackballed & blacklisted. We shouldn’t have been. We were right. cbsnews.com/news/covids-ed… “There's a whole cohort of young people who are not going to get the kind of education that's going to allow them to get the best jobs. It's going to cost lots of kids tens of thousands of dollars over their earnings, or some 100s of 1000s of dollars.”

This also means shorter… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

Yes it’s an opinion piece. Still, it acknowledges schools should never close again and they shouldn’t have in the first place. And that it’s a mistake that will have decades long repercussions.

What it doesn’t acknowledge is the @nytimes role in keeping them closed. So do those of us who said this from the beginning get some kind of official forgiveness? Or are we still in the dog house, billed as some kind of right wing racist lunatics?

I’d do it all again just the same way. Someone(s) had to.

This biased piece of dreck article positioning parents who would dare vote based on school closures and other onerous restrictions that have harmed kids is why ⁦@TheDemocrats⁩ will lose votes in November. nytimes.com/2022/08/01/tec… In the piece, @sheeraf acknowledges that half of Americans oppose ongoing restrictions yet positions parents who will vote based on such restrictions as having lost their minds. And yet, ongoing restrictions are resulting in continued harms. Like this:

https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1553874242692939776?s=20&t=W1Abwy8wmfZ47n1SM-jLyw

Any ideas how long it will take before the last 2.5 years are universally agreed to have been the stupidest, cruelest possible way to respond to a respiratory virus with an IFR of <.2%? 10 yrs? 30? 50?

I know some think this now but I mean UNIVERSALLY agreed upon by all? 1- Not ‘oh we did the best we could with what we knew.’

No. We didn’t. Ask @DrJBhattacharya and @MartinKulldorff. Heck ask me, a total normie. I knew from the get go.

Horrible decisions were made not at all based on what was known. 2-

"Democrats are passing peak progressive. The calls are not just coming from within cities, but from working-class & non-white voters..."

Not so sure it's passing. 1-economist.com/briefing/2022/… Sure peak progressive city, SF, is pushing back. To an extent.

The city recalled 3 board of ed members who, rather than open schools is 2020/21, dilly dallied over re-naming said closed schools. @ManKitLam4 2-

"...it is possible that when vaccines activate the immune system, they also somehow trigger downstream effects in the endometrium, causing a disturbance in your menstrual cycle." 1-nytimes.com/2022/07/15/wel… "Clinical trials and other studies have already established that the Covid-19 vaccines are safe and effective and are unlikely to impact fertility in the long term."
If I were of child bearing age, or not yet, I wouldn't feel particularly comforted by the word "unlikely." 2-

"...school closures have caused perhaps the worst educational crisis for a century & certainly since the world wars."

Too few countries have recognized the scale of the disaster & the true cost will not be visible for years.
1-
economist.com/international/… And it was all for nothing. All this harm to children, an entire generation, globally, done for no reason.

There is no relationship between extent of school closures and Covid infection rates.
2-

https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1545584117831544832?s=20&t=h0S2qokODg2SVq69dYUu9g

Glad to see that there is some consensus that we gave too little attention to kids' needs during Covid. But where were these people in the throes of it?
I did NOT feel part of 62% of Americans! Speak up! We'd have been the majority. Don't let us get stuck out here alone!

https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1545364064733462528

Do we now agree kids aren't SO resilient? That they needed some care and attention in terms of their education & social/emotional development?

Are the 62% in agreement here the same ones who shouted about kids' resiliency?

I'm confused actually. Where were you then? 2-

In Sweden, where schools stayed open, there was no learning loss. & guess what, the teachers didn't all die & the outcomes were better, not worse, than the US overall. Those who fought to keep schools closed owe kids here a giant apology. & a promise not to do this again. 1- Journalists w/ their alarming fear generating headlines really dropped the ball. I wouldn't wait on an apology though. They've shifted to alarming (& realistic, this time) headlines about learning loss & chronic absenteeism with no acknowledgment they were part of the problem. 2-

With all the articles about the horrific impacts of long term school closures, there are no assertions on why or who. Who is responsible & needs to be held accountable? No one will say. Weird right? It just happened?

No. People in leadership positions made these decisions. 1- Who? governors, mayors, PH leaders, CDC (via guidelines), teachers unions, school boards. The locus of responsibility is different depending on the district. But it's not hard to figure out by city, state etc. & the CDC deserves a healthy dose of blame in every instance. 2/-

I came across this recently. A "review" of my book Chalked Up in '08 on a gym blog. This was how people felt in 2008 in the gym world. Uncannily similar to everything hurled at open schools parents, including me, in the past 2 yrs. "Misinformation", "a liar by any definition." Another on a gym blog. "All sorts of nonsense gets posted on blogs but when the best known publication in the industry (International Gymnast) questions the veracity of your book, you know the game is up." So because a 'trusted source' questioned me I was toast, a liar. I wasn't.

"Few states illustrate the challenge as clearly as CA, which educates roughly one in eight of the nation’s public schoolchildren. For the 1st time in 2 decades, public school enrollment fell below 6M this academic year." @ShawnHubler

I was not alone.
nytimes.com/2022/05/17/us/… "Now educators and school officials are confronting a potentially harsh future of lasting setbacks in learning, hardened inequities in education and smaller budgets accompanying smaller student populations.

'This has been a seismic hit to public education...'"

We warned you.

"In America there is apparently something worse than dying of coronavirus. And that is to be “fat-shamed” or be accused of “fat-shaming”."

40% of Americans are overweight (highest % in the world.) But it can't be discussed even when lives could be saved.
nypost.com/2022/05/19/tal… 80% of those hospitalized for Covid were overweight. As the most overweight country in the world, perhaps this is why our #s/fatality rates look the way they do? In not taking this issue on, at the risk of offending, PH is killing people. And not just from Covid. @DouglasKMurray

Many of my friends from "before times" find me confusing & think I joined some sort of cult or had my body snatched by Qanon. But I find them confusing. How did they send their kids to private school & not say one word about all the public school kids locked out for 18 months? 1- How do you look at a 3 year old in a mask and think it's ok? That it helps prevent spread and doesn't harm development? 2-

Can you apply via @Twitter ? @elonmusk need a brand president? CMO? 🙋🏽‍♀️

https://twitter.com/1DisgruntledMom/status/1518700679270965250

Here's my application.

https://twitter.com/ThomasEWoods/status/1518642926179565569?s=20&t=VirswgppxZhYIETXm9gufg

The entirety of my politics at the moment can be summarized as LEAVE KIDS ALONE. Stop badgering them & burdening them with weight not theirs to carry. I reserve the right to shift my priorities in the future. Call me a flipflopper don't care. The situation now demands this focus. Let them go to school and live in the world without onerous absurd restrictions. Let them read what they want, hang out with each other, play sports, socialize and have fun! Doesn't mean adults don't support, guide them & help them. They need our help.

I spent the past 2 days talking to moms & educators in FL. They told me story after story about kids suffering from restrictions in school. 4th and 5th graders unable to read. Tween girls afraid to show their faces. Young children afraid to unmask... ...believing they could kill a person at any moment. Kids just unable to interact socially, afraid to talk at all in class. This is in Florida where schools have been open since Fall 2020. What of the kids in CA? How do we help these kids recover?

These are the things that make me unemployable (thread):

I spoke out against public school closures starting in March 2020. I thought then, and it has been proven to be true, that closed public schools would harm the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children the most. 1/ I think it is grossly classist that private schools opened in Fall 2020 while public schools remained closed & would for a full year more.

I think masking two year olds is not only absurd but harmful. 2/