It’s been a constant refrain for at least a year: Don’t hold it against the lockdowners and the school closers that they were wrong.
New York University professor Scott Galloway is the latest to make this plea:
NYU Professor calls for COVID amnesty on Bill Maher:
— Michael P Senger (@michaelpsenger) October 28, 2023
“I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong… But here's the bottom line: We were doing our best. Let’s give a little grace and forgiveness.”pic.twitter.com/sxEY9nnhki
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People make mistakes. We should always forgive people who make mistakes and apologize. And even though it pains an Irishman like me to say it, we shouldn’t hold grudges for too long.
But we should not be ready to move on from what the lockdowners and school closers did to our children and in turn to the rest of the country.
These people didn’t merely harm children with their bad policies.
We knew by July 2020 that there were serious risks to closing schools. That may be an understatement: We knew that refusing to reopen schools in fall 2020 would harm children.
It is not safe to keep schools closed.
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) July 7, 2020
The American Academy of Pediatrics was one of many groups that said as much. Sadly, when former President Donald Trump agreed, the medical establishment reversed itself, and the Democrats began campaigning against reopening schools.
Jennifer Sey was a Levi’s executive who came under such fierce attack for supporting school reopenings that she was drummed from her job.
How about let’s bring “grace & forgiveness” to those who were right & were afforded none. We were ostracized, demonized, we lost friends, our communities & our reputations were destroyed. Where is our grace & forgiveness? Better yet, our redemption?
— Jennifer Sey (@JenniferSey) October 28, 2023
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Our county’s chief lockdowner, health officer Travis Gayles, attacked the schools and parents who wanted to open as “arrogant.” One local politician, Craig Rice, said that affluence and privilege were the only reasons private school parents wanted to educate their children in person. The teachers unions said all parents wanted was “free babysitters.”
There wasn’t a cost-benefit analysis in which the closers came down on the wrong side. They denied the existence of costs even though those costs were obvious — which is to say they didn’t think about how their favored policies would affect children. That’s going to make it hard to forgive them.