“That decision enrages Zweig, who argues that influenza kills more children than Covid, but when you look at the actual figures you wonder what he’s smoking.”
Bless her. Zweig’s book is patently dangerous. How many vaguely informed people will read it and claim “a scientist said it was pointless”?
Bless her. Zweig’s book is patently dangerous. How many vaguely informed people will read it and claim “a scientist said it was pointless”?
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Walker Bragman
NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social.
Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this.
www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...
Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this.
www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...
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That we are still living with COVID is evidence of failure, not its inevitability. All of this was preventable. Don’t forget that.
And as a library worker who had to leave because of long COVID? That “noble calling” nonsense kills.