New York Times Goes to War Against Parents

The New York Times wrote a hit piece against parents whose politics changed during Covid out of antipathy to school closures and mandates

• Frenkel expresses her puzzlement at the basic instincts shown by these parents to defend and protect their children, even at the expense of other political preferences
• Nearly half of Americans oppose masking and a similar share is against vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, polls show.
• But what is obscured in those numbers is the intensity with which some parents have embraced these views
• While they once described themselves as Republicans or Democrats, they now identify as independents who plan to vote based solely on vaccine policies
• Fueled by a sense of righteousness after Covid vaccine and mask mandates ended, many of these parents have become increasingly dogmatic
  1. Nearly half of Americans oppose masking and a similar share is against vaccine mandates for schoolchildren, polls show. But what is obscured in those numbers is the intensity with which some parents have embraced these views. While they once described themselves as Republicans or Democrats, they now identify as independents who plan to vote based solely on vaccine policies.
  2. Longnecker and her fellow objectors are part of a potentially destabilizing new movement: parents who joined the anti-vaccine and anti-mask cause during the pandemic, narrowing their political beliefs to a single-minded obsession over those issues. Their thinking hardened even as Covid-19 restrictions and mandates were eased and lifted, cementing in some cases into a skepticism of all vaccines. 
     

https://brownstone.org/articles/new-york-times-goes-to-war-against-parents/