This is depressing, I'm glad you keep calling it out. In NYC, children under 5 yrs of age have to wear masks, because there are no vaccines available for them and they are a "high risk" category. At the same event, the mayor said that he's dropping the mask mandates for schoolchildren, because people want to see their lovely faces again. He also said he's following "science".
Well, my remark was mostly rhetorical. Lately they're redefining things to suit their own agenda—in this case getting kids vaccinated, and getting the vaccines on the pediatric vaccine schedule so that Pharma can have liability shielding.
They just updated their policy to... keep them basically everywhere including classes. Right across the street, at the overflowing bars, they dropped them. Not required for the 100k ppl at football games either since last August.
I hope you can stay true to facts of all kinds and in all fields, Dr. Prasad. It’s not easy with so much emotion and misinformation in the air. It’s thick as fog right now- nothing is clear, nothing is as it seems. Us poor monkeys.
I am an MSU alum, having earned two degrees there. I'm embarrassed for my university. Where are the science faculty members? You should be in the forefront on behalf of your students, without whom you would not have a job!!
Thank you for thinking of the kids and young people. They need our advocacy. I never realized how many abusive adults the world holds. As you said, these weathervanes are a very dangerous lot...and all perfectly suited for academic bureaucracy.
Thank you again for being so direct, I hope at least 1 leader at MSU hears you and reads this and are utterly embarrassed & ashamed of their ridiculous policy. If they are so much smarter than everyone else and have a ton of $ why aren't their public health officials or researchers there running RCTs to show us all? As a Michigander myself I find this embarrassing, I have several MSU grads in my family and a niece there now..the same policy is current in effect at U of MI:( I went to Indiana University in super Liberal Bloomington where masks are now optional indoors (but vaccination required of course to this low-risk population of students)...how are the students at IU different from those at MSU of U of MI? No difference. Its too bad that students in droves don't drop out....& enrollment overall drops....$ speaks.
at this point, everyone in charge of these policies clearly knows that masks do not work. So it has to be another reason. Maybe it's so everyone can figure out who the critical thinkers are.
I wonder when it was that America lost it's collective mind? The entire academia (practically) leaning to Liberal side of the house and creating an echo chamber w/in the faculty & staff couldn't have helped. Thanks for these biting essays.
My son has been accepted to both MSU and Hope College for Fall '22. I'm nudging my boy toward Hope, since Hope does not mandate the vax for students. P.S. Last spring, while walking the MSU campus with my son, I rebeled against the asinine policy then mandating wearing masks outside!
Thanks for this. I think higher ed is really the next frontier for action (as well as toddlers forced into masks (!) in places like SF). In addition to MSU, many fancy pants schools in the Ivy + category are doing the same--my alma maters are both like this. Masks on buses and in lecture halls (for students) but not for lecturing faculty! Masks in gyms but not in dining halls! Yale is perhaps the worst I've seen--no even hint of changing their draconian masking in March 2022. Truly indefensible stuff.
I had a friend in early childhood education yesterday say to me how resilient and adaptable these children are! “They read eye expressions!” Oh gosh I was shocked and seething inside (I’m in ECE too). Shouldn’t be surprised, though. She’s a CNN junkie.
Another ECE friend teaches music / singing to little ones. Loves the masks!!!!! Got her own 5 year old vaxxed PROUDLY as soon as it was available!!!
I just can’t believe it.
I think society is especially enslaving the littlest and the college students to keep setting a precedent for conformity.
Haven't you heard? COVID is very smart and knows when kids are in a classroom as opposed to an arena.
Yeah. All that noise and hot dog snd beer aroma confuses the virus so it goes back to the schools.
And they’re also immune in a school setting, when they eat, which is a miracle in itself. That goes for restaurants and airplanes as well
This is depressing, I'm glad you keep calling it out. In NYC, children under 5 yrs of age have to wear masks, because there are no vaccines available for them and they are a "high risk" category. At the same event, the mayor said that he's dropping the mask mandates for schoolchildren, because people want to see their lovely faces again. He also said he's following "science".
I guess they defined "high risk" as being unvaccinated?
I believe so, but the irony is that a large percentage of schoolchildren are not vaccinated.
Well, my remark was mostly rhetorical. Lately they're redefining things to suit their own agenda—in this case getting kids vaccinated, and getting the vaccines on the pediatric vaccine schedule so that Pharma can have liability shielding.
This is occurring at universities everywhere. Not just MSU. See PSU also. Make it make sense
They just updated their policy to... keep them basically everywhere including classes. Right across the street, at the overflowing bars, they dropped them. Not required for the 100k ppl at football games either since last August.
I hope you can stay true to facts of all kinds and in all fields, Dr. Prasad. It’s not easy with so much emotion and misinformation in the air. It’s thick as fog right now- nothing is clear, nothing is as it seems. Us poor monkeys.
I am an MSU alum, having earned two degrees there. I'm embarrassed for my university. Where are the science faculty members? You should be in the forefront on behalf of your students, without whom you would not have a job!!
Thank you for thinking of the kids and young people. They need our advocacy. I never realized how many abusive adults the world holds. As you said, these weathervanes are a very dangerous lot...and all perfectly suited for academic bureaucracy.
I like redpilled Vinay. Hope he doesn't get forced into a fourth shot in a couple months.
Thank you again for being so direct, I hope at least 1 leader at MSU hears you and reads this and are utterly embarrassed & ashamed of their ridiculous policy. If they are so much smarter than everyone else and have a ton of $ why aren't their public health officials or researchers there running RCTs to show us all? As a Michigander myself I find this embarrassing, I have several MSU grads in my family and a niece there now..the same policy is current in effect at U of MI:( I went to Indiana University in super Liberal Bloomington where masks are now optional indoors (but vaccination required of course to this low-risk population of students)...how are the students at IU different from those at MSU of U of MI? No difference. Its too bad that students in droves don't drop out....& enrollment overall drops....$ speaks.
at this point, everyone in charge of these policies clearly knows that masks do not work. So it has to be another reason. Maybe it's so everyone can figure out who the critical thinkers are.
I wonder when it was that America lost it's collective mind? The entire academia (practically) leaning to Liberal side of the house and creating an echo chamber w/in the faculty & staff couldn't have helped. Thanks for these biting essays.
My son has been accepted to both MSU and Hope College for Fall '22. I'm nudging my boy toward Hope, since Hope does not mandate the vax for students. P.S. Last spring, while walking the MSU campus with my son, I rebeled against the asinine policy then mandating wearing masks outside!
Thank goodness for you...I wish you were head of the USA's public policy.
Thanks for this. I think higher ed is really the next frontier for action (as well as toddlers forced into masks (!) in places like SF). In addition to MSU, many fancy pants schools in the Ivy + category are doing the same--my alma maters are both like this. Masks on buses and in lecture halls (for students) but not for lecturing faculty! Masks in gyms but not in dining halls! Yale is perhaps the worst I've seen--no even hint of changing their draconian masking in March 2022. Truly indefensible stuff.
Yes, the little masked children in SF OUTSIDE! are very sad to see.
That’s sooooooooooo horrible :(
I had a friend in early childhood education yesterday say to me how resilient and adaptable these children are! “They read eye expressions!” Oh gosh I was shocked and seething inside (I’m in ECE too). Shouldn’t be surprised, though. She’s a CNN junkie.
Another ECE friend teaches music / singing to little ones. Loves the masks!!!!! Got her own 5 year old vaxxed PROUDLY as soon as it was available!!!
I just can’t believe it.
I think society is especially enslaving the littlest and the college students to keep setting a precedent for conformity.
The students do have the power. Put their tuition money in a designated escrow type account until the stupidity ends.
Consider that many of the students want to keep their chains. The school may just be responding to that
What was it they say about prisoners who don't want to leave jail?
These people are disgusting. It’s the teachers — they’re scaredy-cats.