UFT President Randi Weingarten shared a tweet from pandemic-porn peddler Eric Feigl-Ding on the COVID-19 situation in India, adding “This is bad news…. it’s also why vaccines are so important for kids”:
This is bad news…. it’s also why vaccines are so important for kids https://t.co/QMfRCXcRCJ
— Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) May 16, 2021
When schools aren’t open in the fall because *KIDS* aren’t vaccinated in great enough numbers, you’ve been warned:
teachers union president signaling her next school reopening goalpost shift https://t.co/BIDn2wsC8F
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) May 16, 2021
Of course, Feigl-Ding’s kids were in school all this time anyway so he’s the last person anyone should be quoting on this:
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Randi is citing this guy pic.twitter.com/5vrtPV9Txl
— Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) May 16, 2021
As for kids getting vaccinated, health experts like the often-quoted Dr. Leana Wen say don’t rush the science on it and that kids should be open right now:
"I don't want the science to be rushed," says @DrLeanaWen about when it will be time for young kids to be vaccinated. But she tells @abbydphillip it's still safe to fully reopen schools as soon as possible. #InsidePoliticsSunday pic.twitter.com/xEXd3R5fRH
— Inside Politics (@InsidePolitics) May 16, 2021
And there’s this op-ed written by Adam Finn, “a senior clinician in pediatric immunology and infectious diseases at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children in Britain and a professor of pediatrics at the University of Bristol” and Richard Malle, “a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School”:
“The universal vaccination of healthy children 2 to 11 years old simply shouldn’t be a priority and may ultimately prove unnecessary.” https://t.co/7mFnn2PLfi
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 16, 2021
These are what’s known as facts:
If you are extremely worried about your child under 12 being exposed to COVID, I advise you to never drive with them, bathe them or allow them near a pool. All of those things are statistically far more dangerous.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) May 16, 2021
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