COVID Closures: Worse Than a Crime, a Mistake
With midterms looming, the Left is much more willing to listen to public opinion on pandemic restrictions.
by Debra J. Saunders
September 3, 2022, 11:24 PM
“Wow, what a mistake that was,” New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said of New York’s decision “to have all the kids go home and learn remotely.”
“Women couldn’t go to their jobs,” she added.
Forget all those 2020 lectures from Democrats about how school closures were dictated by “The Science.” That was a “mistake.”
After two years of officialdom maintaining that arguments against widespread school closures were “misinformation,” the blue establishment is ready to move on.
On Fox News Tuesday, businesswoman Jennifer Sey reacted to Hochul’s about-face. Two years ago, Sey personally opposed COVID-driven school closures in San Francisco, and, for that, Levi Strauss & Co. forced the well-placed executive to resign this year.
That was then. Now, however, the wrongness of blanket school closures and “Zoom” school are “just accepted as the truth,” Sey noted. It’s an improvement, if irritating.
“It’s as if this happened,” Sey said of the move away from mass closures, “but nobody did it.”
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