Yesterday, a rightfully pissed-off Bethany Mandel tweeted that she would be pulling her kids out of a day camp that required masking.
Going to pick my kids up from a day camp that I was told wouldn’t mask them but jk yes they’re requiring them. WHY IS THIS ONLY KIDS?!
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
Now going to get ice cream as a consolation prize. I’m so angry to still be fighting this in August of 2022.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
They don’t want to give me a full refund. They have no idea who they’re dealing with. pic.twitter.com/dyxFEQHqBj
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
Spoiler alert: She got the full refund.
Full refund. pic.twitter.com/wmecx9TZPK
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
Anyhoo, Mandel tweeted about it again today, which is understandable given the fact that the camp’s stupid rules are worth calling out repeatedly:
This is just a reminder that the pandemic is over for everyone but kids. I pulled my kids out of an indoor weeklong music summer camp yesterday because they were making the kids mask all day long. Nowhere else outside of medical settings are masks still required.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 16, 2022
Mandel’s irritation with continued masking requirements for young kids irritated Columbia Journalism Director of Academic Affairs Jane Eisner:
Simply not true. Columbia University classrooms. Closed, tightly pack performance spaces. All require masks, for good reason. https://t.co/zMobfm0BS2
— .@Jane_Eisner (@Jane_Eisner) August 16, 2022
“For good reason.” And that reason would be what, exactly? Because we’re dying to hear it.
What is the “good reason” please? https://t.co/h1LQxaifzG
— Matt Murphy (@mattmurphyshow) August 16, 2022
Narrator: there wasn’t a good reason.
— Hugh Zahnar (@HughDalton20) August 16, 2022
If Columbia University students are still required to mask up at this point, there is no good reason. At least no reason that’s even remotely based in science.
"Performance spaces": Accidental honesty.
— Fauxmaha (@J3ffMiller) August 16, 2022
Ha! Yes! What has masking become if not pure performance art?
https://t.co/hWWNoQe0JV pic.twitter.com/lTBfYqgTk0
— Liberrocky (@liberrocky) August 16, 2022
The pandemic of bureaucracy, safetyism, theater, corruption, and incompetence persists within institutions in direct correlation to the degree those institutions are dominated by progressives (i.e., illiberalism collectivism, totalitarianism). https://t.co/jp6hNR8Nvw
— Blame Big Government (@BlameBigGovt) August 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/TShampling/status/1559557879157374980
Needless to say, something tells us those Columbia students could learn a hell of a lot more from Bethany Mandel than they ever could from someone like Jane Eisner.
I’m reading a series of unfortunate events with the kids and last night we talked about what it means to be passive because it was in the chapter. Today when I picked them up I was raging “Why are parents just going along with this?!” And my son said “because they’re passive.”
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
We talked last night about what it means to be passive and that it can be hard to not be passive when something is wrong. And today unfortunately they had to experience that for themselves. I’m sad they had this opportunity taken from them.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
Instead of camp we’ll do mommy camp this week at the carnival and a restaurant lunch date and ice cream today. I’m not spending an absurd amount of money for six hours masked at a music camp. And I’ll teach them that it’s important not to be passive, even when it’s hard.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) August 15, 2022
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