🧵Bahrain. China. Hong Kong. Venezuela. Chile. Cuba. Argentina...USA. The only places in the WORLD jabbing kids under 5. NONE for under 2s, NONE with mRNAs (besides US). We deserve more than an Elmo PSA to explain to parents why almost no one else on our planet is on board... I wouldn't care about how totally bizarre this is, if the jab campaign wasn't so aggressive. If our school hadn't just mandated it, with many sure to follow. If it wasn't another excuse to shame, divide, & coerce, to delay the return to normal our children so desperately need...

🧵You must now do whatever it takes to protect me, according to our popular pandemic catchphrase: "You don't have a right to get me sick." Doesn't matter if you're not actually protecting me, or if YOU don't like it. It's all about the greater good & keeping ME healthy... I can make you do whatever the hell I want & I don't give a hoot if you get harmed along the way. This is about protecting ME not YOU, remember? Anyway, are you honestly willing to risk MY life just cause your whiny kid doesn't like wearing his mask & muh freedom?...

🧵The problem with censorship, even if this time you think it's the right kind, for a good reason, is that it's still censorship. The problem with segregation of the "other," even if this time you think it's the right other, & for a good reason, is that it's still segregation... The problem with denying right to bodily autonomy, even if this time it's for their own good, is you're still denying bodily autonomy. The problem with violating the right to choose, even if this time it's for their own good, is you're still violating the right to choose...

🧵If you told lifelong Dems in 2019 that by 2022 they'd become single-issue voters for the other side, they would've said you were nuts. They also would've said you were nuts if you told them that after 2019 their opinions would be considered "right wing"... And yet, here we are! Did you question blue state covid policy? Poof! You're now a Republican. Wanted your kids in school? Welcome to the other side! Said Florida wasn't doing so bad and maybe we could lighten up a bit? Start putting up that DeSantis2024 yard sign!...

🧵I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Biden's speech didn't really track with our covid policies. Like, does a country with harsh mandates banning kids from society & forcing people to lose their jobs sound like a place where the "people rule" & their "will prevails?"... Does it sound like a place never ruled by a "strongman," where the people have the "right to govern" themselves? And does preventing kids from getting an education allow them to "determine our own destiny?" Are we sure we're not "putting fear over hope" by masking 2 yr olds?...

🧵This article. I am so filled with rage and pain. I want to scream. And cry. We destroyed children's lives, took a wrecking ball to an entire generation, shattered childhoods without hesitation. And for what? To protect them? To keep them safe?...

nytimes.com/2022/01/04/bri… The kids needed to be protected - but not from Covid, from ourselves - from our "experts," our leaders, our "science." We were always the far greater threat to them. We traded science and reason, compassion and common sense for ignorance, politics, fear, and misinformation...

🧵 As a born and raised New Yorker, I've never even considered living anywhere else. Raising my kids here was the best gift and privilege I could give them. But last night, as I tucked my son into bed just after the ball dropped, I was overwhelmed by sadness and guilt... Sadness for the years of childhood my son has lost & for my 2 year old who's never known normal. Sadness for what's become of the greatest city in the world. Sadness for my fellow New Yorkers, who used to smell bullshit from a mile away & who'd do anything to defend our city...