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TeroB's avatar

Repulsive.

Infuriating.

Unconscionable.

If the concept of shame still existed the adults involved here would clothed themselves in rags and wander the earth to make amends.

I just don’t see how we as a country can ever come together when the most highly educated and credentialed among us were the most authoritarian and true-believers in pseudo-science and superstition. NONE of the mitigation measures they so relentlessly pushed worked, yet there is STILL no acknowledgement of this irrefutable fact!

This school had great teachers?! In what? Clearly not biology, statistics, critical thinking, common sense or basic decency.

Courage is obviously not very common (especially in our safety obsessed culture), but the parents of these students acting as the paying clients in this scenario, never mind being ultimately responsible for the well being of their children, could have pushed back against these idiotic and psychologically destructive measures without needing the courage of Achilles.

Instead, they didn’t want to rock the boat so they let a handful of petty tyrants have their way. This is, sadly, a microcosm of what happened (or failed to happen) in broader society. The hysteria would not have lasted had just a few more people refused to comply with the nonsense.

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Andrew Heard's avatar

It’s a very sad thing to see that people are so committed to enforcing these rules. This is one of the major concerns I had about implementing them. The other day I saw someone wearing a mask while alone in their car, in 2023. And another personal elsewhere wearing a mask while walking outside alone.

Some people have been emotionally broken by the implementation of these mandates. I’m curious how many agoraphobics and hypochondriacs we created in 2020 and going forward.

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