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Teresa's avatar

Superb article! I must confess I have a bad case of Stickitothemaniosis, like a fire raging from the depths of my soul. Fck Bob Carr and his hospitals. If I'm going to die I'll die at home with my dignity intact.

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Regarding making new decisions based on new information... a whole lot of people will not want to do that if they have been outspoken in a partisan position. Nobody likes admitting he was wrong. Especially within families, all those normal, garden-variety dysfunctional interpersonal dynamics that were in play before Covid are still in play... and that's just among the adults. Sibling rivalry and so forth.

I cannot imagine how horrible things may be in families where the mother has told her small children for two long years that good people wear masks because otherwise, they are bad people who might kill grandma. And all the doctors and coaches and teachers and pastors and mayors and police in that child's life have said the same thing: we wear masks because masks work.

There but for the grace of God go I. My kids are grown.

I think the time for adults to gracefully exit the masking of children was in Summer of 2021... and they did not do it. The adults doubled down. The adults have lied en masse to children about masks for two long years. This is going to be way uglier than admitting Santa Claus doesn't bring presents. Or it should be ugly. And that's not even touching the lies around Covid vaccines.

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