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Jennifer Sey Provides Important, Poignant Reminder Of Why We Should Not Say 'COVID Is Over'

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It is quite common these days to say that COVID is over. We say it all the time here at Twitchy. But when we say that, we mean the pandemic itself is over. The pushing of ineffective vaccines (and even more ineffective masks) is over. Locking kids out of schools is over. Shutting down businesses is over. All of the lies are over. 

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But for some people, it can never be over and it is important to remember that. No, we are not talking about 'long COVID' nonsense. We're talking about people whose lives were changed forever, not by the virus, but by COVID policies. 

On Sunday, Jennifer Sey -- the former Levi Strauss executive who was ousted from the company for her defiance of COVID narratives, particularly with school closures -- reminded us of all of the people for whom COVID can never be over. 

Here is the full text of her tweet: 

To those saying Covid is over:

Not if your child dropped out of high school
Not if your child fell so far behind in school he can’t read
Not if you have a special needs child who was denied necessary services for 2 years
Not if your business went under
Not if you lost your job and incurred tons of debt or had to declare bankruptcy 
Not if you’re a kid who is chronically absent or worse, lost in the system and hasn’t returned at all 
Not if you overdosed or your child did 
Not if you started using 
Not if you became depressed from the hopelessness and isolation 
Not if you were hospitalized for mental illness 
Not if you developed an eating disorder 
Not if you were censored 
Not if you pushed back against the mainstream narrative and your reputation was ruined 
Not if it happens again and government and public health officials do the exact same thing all over again.

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Plenty of people replied with their own reasons it is not over, many of them tragic.

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Some of the replies are extremely difficult to read. But it is important to read them because the last sentence in Sey's tweet is critical: 'Not if it happens again and government and public health officials do the exact same thing all over again.'

People are easily distracted. With all of the other disasters going on right now, both domestically in America and abroad, it is understandable that people might forget the arrogance with which so many were ready to take away our freedom because of a virus. 

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The only way forward is through accountability. The people in power who pushed lies (often knowingly) on the public, who restricted freedoms for no reason, who destroyed lives, and who decimated institutional trust for a generation if not longer have to be held to account for their words and deeds. If not, history WILL repeat itself. 

As Captain Malcolm Reynolds says in the movie Serenity: 

'As sure as I know anything, I know this: They will try again. Maybe on another world. Maybe on this very ground swept clean. A year from now, 10, they'll swing back to the belief that they can make people ... better. And I do not hold to that.'

No one should. Aim to misbehave. 

And this writer for one will be very careful before writing the words 'COVID is over' ever again. 


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