Ever since Dr. Leana Wen went from being Planned Parenthood’s president to CNN’s medical analyst, we’ve gotten some amazing takes on the COVID-19 pandemic, and recently we’ve been seeing some sharp pivots. Wen is the one who recently told CNN that the cloth masks kids had been wearing to school for two years were “little more than facial decoration.” Now she’s sharing with CNN a study suggesting that closing schools during the pandemic affected cognitive and motor development in preschoolers.
New study shows that covid school closures affected cognitive and motor development in preschoolers. Learning loss is most pronounced in kids most at risk. We must focus on keeping kids in school and on closing educational disparities. @biannagolodryga https://t.co/mlKm1j5kjY pic.twitter.com/mVhJTWGbmI
— Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) February 23, 2022
But teachers were writing their own obituaries and parading cardboard coffins down the street when it was first suggested they drop virtual learning and go back to the classroom. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote a column about teachers appearing disproportionately in COVID-19 obituaries, a claim the Post later said was Milbank’s “subjective interpretation.”
— Remnant (@BtcVires) February 23, 2022
And you supported it for two years.
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) February 23, 2022
Welcome to the party
— 🇺🇸Rob VanWormer🏴 (@Rob_VanWormer35) February 23, 2022
WE TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN
— Brandon (WEF disrespecter) (@ran_the_numbers) February 23, 2022
We’ve said this for 2 years.
— Mike (@M_jopink) February 23, 2022
We’ve been saying this the whole time.
— Phil Fahy (@pfahy13) February 23, 2022
You advocated for school closure. So maybe sit this one out.
— Chris McCall 🇺🇦 (@therealmccaw) February 23, 2022
You said the complete opposite for 2 years until… you saw the polls of how parents felt
— SeldenGADawgs (@SeldenGADawgs) February 23, 2022
Parents (and who better to determine a child's development than a parent?) have been saying this for 2 years. Until recently you chose to ignore this. What changed?
— Patsy Jones (@pjones59) February 23, 2022
“New study”
— litquidity (@litcapital) February 23, 2022
No, not new studies. Many parents and those of us working with these kids have been screaming this since 2020.
— Katherine (@MossKatherine) February 23, 2022
You can’t call something “new” when people have been saying this to anyone who would listen for almost two years! The polls changed so the “data” changed. It’s that simple.
— VinylLife (@TrueDodgerCrue) February 23, 2022
https://twitter.com/JxnW/status/1496629450213056520
Covid didn’t do this. Lockdowns and mandates did.
— 🧐 Bitcoin Gent! 🧐 ∞/21M (@BitcoinGent) February 23, 2022
This tweet is about a year or two too late. Most people knew this would happen but we were called crazy back then.
— TKDelco (@TKDelco17) February 23, 2022
Last person to figure this out.
— Ian Braney (@braney) February 23, 2022
You ignorant POS. Every person in this country knew that the school closures were wrong for the very reasons you just stated. You, however, advocated for the closures until now. Likely because you listened to the teachers unions. Quit, you are incompetent.
— R E MacDonald (@remac1950) February 24, 2022
What a shock. When do we get an apology tour?
— Robert (@turnturn77) February 23, 2022
File this under: No shit.
— Wrecking Ball Legursky (@WreckingBall75) February 23, 2022
Leana, I'm starting to think that you are mentally ill.
You were a lead cheerleader for draconian COVID restrictions like intentionally keeping people from seeing their families.
Now you're backtracking as if it never happened.
Evil or ill. I'm not sure.
— Chris Blec (@ChrisBlec) February 23, 2022
— Howie Must Go (@DougMustGo) February 23, 2022
Dr. Leana Wen now asserts that the harmful effects of school closings on children are 'not at all surprising'.
Yet she promoted these measures.
Her contributions to the COVID discourse will be studied as examples of pseudo-science and cognitive dissonance for years to come.
— Archon_of_Babel (@crypto_inquisit) February 23, 2022
Related:
AFT president Randi Weingarten says her union has tried to reopen schools since April 2020 https://t.co/8vcpPiUK1x
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 30, 2021
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