David Zweig
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And within philosophy, that's called what's known as a logical fallacy. This is it's an argument from authority. Just because a person is saying something doesn't mean it's true. And they never pushed back and said, well, wait a minute. I know you're saying that they need HEPA filters and we can't open a school until they get the HEPA filter. What's the evidence behind this claim?
What is the evidence for this? No one bothered to push back.
What is the evidence for this? No one bothered to push back.
What is the evidence for this? No one bothered to push back.
I think one of the most important and remarkable things that happened in the pandemic that we need to reckon with as a society is that this was one of the most classist, class-based policy endeavors that had ever occurred in America. It's quite remarkable. The people who made the rules coincidentally fared the best during the pandemic. So you have what people today might call the laptop class.
I think one of the most important and remarkable things that happened in the pandemic that we need to reckon with as a society is that this was one of the most classist, class-based policy endeavors that had ever occurred in America. It's quite remarkable. The people who made the rules coincidentally fared the best during the pandemic. So you have what people today might call the laptop class.
I think one of the most important and remarkable things that happened in the pandemic that we need to reckon with as a society is that this was one of the most classist, class-based policy endeavors that had ever occurred in America. It's quite remarkable. The people who made the rules coincidentally fared the best during the pandemic. So you have what people today might call the laptop class.
Who do you think works at the CDC, the NIH? Who are these people on television and working at these elite media outlets? By and large, these people are making six-figure salaries or seven-figure. Their lives are very different from the people, millions and millions of people in our country who their policies and their guidelines were affecting.
Who do you think works at the CDC, the NIH? Who are these people on television and working at these elite media outlets? By and large, these people are making six-figure salaries or seven-figure. Their lives are very different from the people, millions and millions of people in our country who their policies and their guidelines were affecting.
Who do you think works at the CDC, the NIH? Who are these people on television and working at these elite media outlets? By and large, these people are making six-figure salaries or seven-figure. Their lives are very different from the people, millions and millions of people in our country who their policies and their guidelines were affecting.
And that includes, I mean, there were kids who were sitting in a parking lot of a Taco Bell to try to get a Wi-Fi signal so they could do their fake remote learning. There are children who are in homes that are unsafe. One of the crazy things that happened was there was a drop in claims of child abuse early on. And you might think, oh, that's great. Child abuse went down. It's so heartbreaking.
And that includes, I mean, there were kids who were sitting in a parking lot of a Taco Bell to try to get a Wi-Fi signal so they could do their fake remote learning. There are children who are in homes that are unsafe. One of the crazy things that happened was there was a drop in claims of child abuse early on. And you might think, oh, that's great. Child abuse went down. It's so heartbreaking.
And that includes, I mean, there were kids who were sitting in a parking lot of a Taco Bell to try to get a Wi-Fi signal so they could do their fake remote learning. There are children who are in homes that are unsafe. One of the crazy things that happened was there was a drop in claims of child abuse early on. And you might think, oh, that's great. Child abuse went down. It's so heartbreaking.
What they found was it's not that it went down. It's that teachers and educators are the most important line of defense for a child who is in danger at home. Now those kids had no one to talk to, and some of them were left home with a monster. Yeah. You had kids who didn't have their final year there. This was their chance to get into college. Maybe they were a football player.
What they found was it's not that it went down. It's that teachers and educators are the most important line of defense for a child who is in danger at home. Now those kids had no one to talk to, and some of them were left home with a monster. Yeah. You had kids who didn't have their final year there. This was their chance to get into college. Maybe they were a football player.
What they found was it's not that it went down. It's that teachers and educators are the most important line of defense for a child who is in danger at home. Now those kids had no one to talk to, and some of them were left home with a monster. Yeah. You had kids who didn't have their final year there. This was their chance to get into college. Maybe they were a football player.
Maybe there was someone who was a wonderful actor or an artist. All of those things were canceled. You're not going to get recruited for the football season to play in a college and get recruited there if there is no season. So all these things were happening to kids around the country.
Maybe there was someone who was a wonderful actor or an artist. All of those things were canceled. You're not going to get recruited for the football season to play in a college and get recruited there if there is no season. So all these things were happening to kids around the country.
Maybe there was someone who was a wonderful actor or an artist. All of those things were canceled. You're not going to get recruited for the football season to play in a college and get recruited there if there is no season. So all these things were happening to kids around the country.
And I haven't even mentioned learning loss, which obviously is the most overt that people rightfully so are continuing to talk about. There are so many things that we're affecting, and it's not a small number, millions and millions of kids, including we can touch on kids who have learning disabilities. And it's something like 7 million of them, I think.