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Lockdown skeptic. Former Manhattanite. Team Reality member since July 2020. Honorary “Angry Mom”. Save Women’s Sports
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Oct 18, 2022 15 tweets 6 min read
@jeromeChappelle A) Or you’re a woman that had to stay in an abusive relationship because of the lockdowns and there was nowhere else to go
B) You’re a woman that had to quit or scale back her job because of the school closures @jeromeChappelle C) You’re a woman that had to uproot her whole family to get her kids in school, or back into sports, or to let them play with other kids again
D) You’re a woman who used to run in Central Park alone multiple times a week and now no longer feels safe doing so
Oct 16, 2022 18 tweets 5 min read
March 15, 2020 - that was the day that Bill de Blasio and Andrew Cuomo were bullied into closing the schools in the 5 boroughs of NYC, Westchester and Long Island.

nytimes.com/2020/03/15/nyr… If anyone tells you they weren't aware of the potential for collateral damage even then, they're lying:

From @elizashapiro:

"The long-term effects of closure are extremely daunting, and will unquestionably lead to extensive learning loss for scores of students."
Oct 16, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
More in a series I'm going to call "Mistakes NY Made":

Lockdown means the rich can flee, whereas the not-rich have to stay and deal with both the vast decrease in resources plus the implications of those lockdowns:

nytimes.com/interactive/20… To be clear - I am *NOT* judging anyone who left. If I wasn't living with my boyfriend in the suburbs by then, i would've been one of them. Many of my friends left.

I may have to dig out old photos of my apartments in Manhattan for anyone to truly understand what staying meant.
Oct 16, 2022 14 tweets 4 min read
Yes he was:

nytimes.com/2020/05/14/nyr…

“The issue at Elmhurst was not one of capacity,” said Dani Lever, the governor’s comms director, noting that there were thousands of free beds in the city, including within Health & Hospitals’ own network. “It was a patient management issue.” Sometimes the comments just say it all: Image
Sep 11, 2022 20 tweets 5 min read
Truly 9/11 Twitter is a view of the dumpster fire that can be Twitter, so for those of you haven’t had this seared into their brains, let’s review what happened on this day 21 year ago: 4 planes filled with innocent civilians left for cross-country trips that they never arrived at. There were no survivors