Drew Holden
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442 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Drew Holden’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's the first time the federal government and the state government have to interact in all these weird ways.
I want to allow for some grace in terms of the way we look at things.
But I actually think the area that is least deserving of grace is the way that kids were treated during COVID.
Because throughout the conversation, the media, I think in retrospect, of course, they did a really good job of highlighting this.
So much of the conversation early, early, early on was, we're not sure about kids.
We're not sure if they're safe.
But then that shifted pretty early, right?
And particularly by late 2020, we were pretty confident.
We could say with, I think, a high degree of confidence, kids are not impacted as negatively by COVID as adults are.
They're considerably safer.
And so the shift that you started to see in late 2020
2020 and early 2021 around school closures wasn't for the sake of children.
It was for teachers and the risks that face teachers.
And I think what ended up happening as a result of that is, and whether or not we want to talk about workers of any kind, whether the teachers are otherwise being able to be safe.
Like, I think that's a reasonable conversation to have.
What I think happened, particularly in the pages of the Legacy Press, is that kids were offered up as almost a sacrifice.
What we were really talking about was teachers and teachers' unions, and their refusal to go back to their jobs, even a year after the COVID had started.
What we were framing it as instead was, well, this risk to kids, that at that point we knew, again, not right off the bat, but at that point we knew wasn't nearly as bad as it was for adults.
I mean, I think the biggest thing for me would have been lockdowns, right?
I think lockdowns would have been different.
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