In the second round of bombshell undercover reporting from Steven Crowder’s Mug Club Investigations, New York City’s Covid czar under former Mayor Bill di Blasio reveals that he and the mayor knew kids were “getting hurt” by being kept out of school, but caved to the wishes of the teachers’ unions and kept schools closed.
“I wanted kids in school, the mayor wanted kids in school,” Varma told hid fake date, an undercover reporter. “But the teachers’ union didn’t. The teachers’ union wanted all the teachers to be able to stay home and Zoom so they’d be safe, even though it means the kids get hurt. So the mayor was screwed.” He clarified that the way children were getting hurt was “because kids learn more when you’re in school. When you’re like an 8-year-old or a 9-year-old, you cna’t sit in front of a f*cking Zoom screen all day.”
When asked if it was “actually harmful to chidlren,” Varma said “It was! But we didn’t have a choice because the mayor really wanted them in school, but the unions didn’t, the labor unions and so you had to like, find this weird— this is where I get upset at him but he didn’t tell the unions to just f*ck off.” This was not only pandering to the unions, but pandering to Democrats.
New York City shut down schools on March 13, 2020, and school was a haphazard mess of closures and openings, with varying rules about when kids could be in class and when they couldn’t based on Covid exposure, not just infection. The American Federation of Teachers under President Randi Weingarten was adamant about keeping schools closed to keep teachers safe, even as it became clear that children were not vectors of the virus. […]
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