Letters to the Editor — May 1, 2023
The Issue: A scientist who criticized Randi Weingarten for misrepresenting facts to argue for school closure.
Finally the truth is told (“Twisted by Randi,” April 29).
Our poor kids are still suffering from the unnecessary closure of schools. Not only were they hurt educationally, but also their social skills were harmed.
Our students were isolated and locked up by us. As a healthcare professional, Dr. Tracy Høeg is right that transmission reports by the scientists differed greatly from the messaging of fear that was instilled into us.
As a dentist and COVID speaker on oral care: Bravo to The Post for allowing this article.
Amy Dukoff
Manhattan
She’ll lower standards, she’ll foster woke politics, she’ll ignore biology, she’ll prevent the expansion of schools that actually teach. Now, as The Post reports, she even allegedly perverted a COVID study that would have supported the evidence for teachers showing up to work.
Who is Randi Weingarten? The poster girl of why parents should yank their kids from public schools.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
Perhaps Weingarten thought that since one of the effects of the coronavirus was memory loss, we’d all forget the catastrophic damage done to the kids of this country.
Immense learning loss, anxiety, depression, loneliness and suicide ravaged our young people, who were sacrificed at the altar of naked greed and political ideology.
Weingarten is a disgrace, and what she did to the children of this country should never be forgotten. =
Robert DiNardo
Farmingdale
Anthony Fauci and Weingarten are passing the buck. In this environment, lying and simply pushing responsibility to someone else has become the thing to do.
Why tell the truth? If you do not, those who question you are totally disregarded as racist or ignorant.
The American people aren’t blind or stupid. We all paid a price, especially the children, for this hypocrisy. They will never ’fess up and admit wrong-doing.
Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.
The Issue: Six members of the City Council who did not vote for establishing an “End Jew Hatred Day.”
The actions of those New York City politicians who were unable to bring themselves to vote in favor of the End Jew Hatred Day resolution are both particularly sad on the one hand and moronic on the other (“Lefty pols abstain on ‘End Jew Hatred,’ ” April 29).
Are they — and in particular City Councilmember Charles Barron — so bloody ignorant of Jewish activism, especially Jews’ critical participation in the civil-rights movement?
From the very beginning, Jewish activists have given their time, money, legal skills and yes, even their blood, to advance the cause of racial equality.
I suspect that in these twisted times it is impolitic and unhip for these leftist charlatans and pseudo-leaders to acknowledge that others (that is, not just people of color, and in particular Jews) fought for and influenced the struggle for civil rights and equality. Shame on them.
Mitchell Schwefel
Barnegat, NJ
Shame on those six City Council members who abstained from voting or voted against the “End Jew Hatred Day” resolution.
These members would be among the first to denounce any overlooking of discrimination against or aggression toward people who share their own identities, but they refuse to acknowledge any similar pain suffered by other groups.
That is especially reprehensible since crimes against Jews have been skyrocketing in New York City.
Richard D. Wilkins
Syracuse
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