A while ago, I started noticing something strange: Very progressive people, who love to talk about "believing in science," were adopting COVID restrictions *over and above* CDC guidelines. I thought, is there a story here? And, well, wow, there is.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/ …
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“I spent four years fighting Trump because he was so anti-science,” said one, a sanitation engineer. “I spent the last year fighting people who I normally would agree with desperately trying to inject science into school reopening, and completely failed.”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/ …
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The last year has been harrowing. Making sacrifices--staying home, wearing masks, cancelling weddings and funerals and graduations--has become this sign of civic virtue. And I think some progressives are having a really hard time giving that up.https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/ …
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Read my story on the liberals who can't leave lockdown:https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/05/liberals-covid-19-science-denial-lockdown/618780/ …
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Pretty much every accusation leveled by conservatives about how much of the response to COVID was just do the opposite of Trump was more spot on than we knew.
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Biden and CDC trying to force open schools is political not scientific. There is no vaccine for age 5-15 yet. September. Science > Political optics.
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The pushback on this piece is fascinatingly hysterical (not as in funny, but as in partaking of hysteria).
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Do you have children? Been in a school lately? Talked with an educator?
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The scientists who say school reopening is safe have some pretty demanding caveats: spacing, masking, ventilation, testing, protocols for if there is a positive. Schools didn’t meet that
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How do you keep them "spaced" when they are not in class? Schools are understaffed as it is. Do you have a bathroom attendent in every washroom cleaning the toilets after ever use? How do you socially distance if the halls aren't wide enough?
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