Need proof COVID alarmism is a cult, pure and easy?
Look no additional than the Elizabeth Anne Clune Montessori college in Ithaca.
There, as chronicled by David Zweig on the Free Press, kids should be masked, together with outdoor, and are literally forbidden from talking throughout lunch.
That’s proper: In 2023,
- lengthy after the pandemic has receded
- years after the information have established each that there’s near-zero threat to children from the illness and that interventions like masking (and monastic silences) are subsequent to ineffective
Nonetheless, one tiny personal college is clinging to hygiene theater with insane vigilance.
Zweig studies that the enforced silence at lunch drove the varsity’s kids — like political prisoners in a Soviet gulag — to contrive secret hand alerts as a means of speaking.
The college saved these restrictions in place after the tip of New York’s masks mandate on the request of academics.
Proving but once more that the self-discipline (even past the grasp of the state’s unions) is stuffed with left-wing fanatics who embrace COVID theater with the identical blind surety they convey to arguments about race or local weather change.
And demand identically merciless, silly, and anti-science options.
There’s zero actual proof that Clune’s insurance policies made the slightest distinction to COVID outcomes.
However that’s not what COVID alarmism is about.
It’s a ritualized system of energy and political conformity, enforced by hurting probably the most weak.
But it’s not unbeatable or inevitable.
Simply take a look at Florida’s Centner Academy.
Equally devoted to imprecise, hippy-dippy ideas — it employs a “director of mind optimization” and hosts a devoted house for failure — Centner from the get-go nonetheless took a common sense strategy to the insanities round COVID.
The college — accurately — opened for in-person research means forward of the curve for Miami-Dade, reasoning — once more accurately — that the virus posed little risk to college students or its principally younger academics.
And it went mask-optional within the fall of 2020.
In consequence, its college students suffered not one of the pointless interruptions to studying that plagued children nationwide for greater than a yr, egged on by union fatcats like Randi Weingarten, hysteria-mongering media like The New York Instances and the cowardly political trimmers advising President Joe Biden on science.
Sure, Centner will not be above criticism.
The state rightly slapped down the varsity’s deeply foolish coverage that vaccinated college students wanted to overlook 30 days post-shot.
However there have been no mass outbreaks at Centner.
No apocalyptic virus waves or pediatric deaths.
Up north in Ithaca, change is supposedly on the way in which at Clune (probably sparked by Zweig’s scrutiny).
But it surely’s too late for the children — and oldsters — who suffered underneath the varsity’s regime.
And the hundreds of thousands of youngsters who suffered at different colleges nationwide.
The following time public well being “consultants” and psychotic woke academics make authoritarian calls for, keep in mind the teachings from Clune and Centner.
Don’t let the cultists win.
