2020: "If you refuse to give your kids this experimental vaccine that we rushed through for a disease that we already know doesn't affect kids, you're a child abuser."
2023: "The CDC never forced anyone to take the vaccine or recommended keeping schools closed."
2023: "If you refuse to give your kids cross sex hormones to make their privat…
2020: "If you refuse to give your kids this experimental vaccine that we rushed through for a disease that we already know doesn't affect kids, you're a child abuser."
2023: "The CDC never forced anyone to take the vaccine or recommended keeping schools closed."
2023: "If you refuse to give your kids cross sex hormones to make their private parts whither away and sterilize them, you're a child abuser."
2025: "No one thinks girls should have to share locker rooms with boys."
Gee, I wonder why institutional trust has plummeted in the last 10 years?
I agree with the general gist of your comment but the CDC recommending COVID vaccines for children and medical professionals telling parents that their child is going to kill themself if they don't go on puberty blockers are two very different things. As far as I was aware no one accused parents not getting COVID vax for their children was called a "child abuser". It might have happened, the Left has some real lunatics, but I don't think that was a general attitude.
Gavin Newsome compared the unvaxxed to “drunk drivers” and kicked unvaxxed kids out of school. Netanyahu called the unvaxxed “the enemy.” Macron declared that his mission was to make life miserable for the unvaxxed. Trudeau (who called the unvaxxed “misogynists and racists” froze bank accounts of truckers who protested his COVID vax policies. And of course Joe Biden fired all federal workers and contractors who didn’t get a COVID shot (thereby opening the door to private businesses to do the same) and he started this mandate policy a month AFTER the CDC admitted the shots could not prevent spread of COVID. Polling of Democrats showed a disturbingly high percentage (around 20% or so if memory serves) felt that parents who wouldn’t put a COVID jab into their kids should lose custody and/or be put into camps. So technically you’re right…the main insults hurled at folks who didn’t inject themselves or their kids was not “child abuser.” It was far worse.
Sure, there was a lot of overheated rhetoric during COVID and I will NOT defend the lockdowns or the way trucker convoy supporters were treated. There were massive mistakes made and it's a big, very interesting topic that is seen better in hindsight. I knew several people with children who didn't get vaccinated and they faced some fairly mild societal pressures, but there were no CPS officials taking their children away. What I'm trying to say is that overheated rhetoric now, trying to relitigate the COVID response in 2025 and saying that anyone who didn't vaccinate their children were seen as child abusers, isn't really helping the "trans children" debate at this moment. They are two different things and the lunatics who are doing this stuff now don't need to be painted with the broad bush of the COVID response also. They are doing enough bad shit on their own and we should focus on that rather than lumping it all together. That's all, if you want to rehash the COVID response there are many places better suited to do that.
That's fair. I'm playing a little fast the loose the the terms. However, in NY for example, if you didn't vax your family in early 2021, you couldn't go to a sporting event, a bar, a restaurant, a grocery store, a concert. If you didn't COVID-vax your kids, you couldn't send them to school, most tutoring services, play sports, a public park, etc...
Although I will grant that CA trumped that when they legalized the seizing of children whose parents didn't want to lob their private parts off.
Yeah, there were def big, huge mistakes made during COVID, no doubt about that, but mostly that's apparent in hindsight. I see the "transing children" thing as a wholly different horrible beast of a problem. It's collusion, conspiracy, profiteering, and child abuse all rolled into one.
2020: "If you refuse to give your kids this experimental vaccine that we rushed through for a disease that we already know doesn't affect kids, you're a child abuser."
2023: "The CDC never forced anyone to take the vaccine or recommended keeping schools closed."
2023: "If you refuse to give your kids cross sex hormones to make their private parts whither away and sterilize them, you're a child abuser."
2025: "No one thinks girls should have to share locker rooms with boys."
Gee, I wonder why institutional trust has plummeted in the last 10 years?
I agree with the general gist of your comment but the CDC recommending COVID vaccines for children and medical professionals telling parents that their child is going to kill themself if they don't go on puberty blockers are two very different things. As far as I was aware no one accused parents not getting COVID vax for their children was called a "child abuser". It might have happened, the Left has some real lunatics, but I don't think that was a general attitude.
Gavin Newsome compared the unvaxxed to “drunk drivers” and kicked unvaxxed kids out of school. Netanyahu called the unvaxxed “the enemy.” Macron declared that his mission was to make life miserable for the unvaxxed. Trudeau (who called the unvaxxed “misogynists and racists” froze bank accounts of truckers who protested his COVID vax policies. And of course Joe Biden fired all federal workers and contractors who didn’t get a COVID shot (thereby opening the door to private businesses to do the same) and he started this mandate policy a month AFTER the CDC admitted the shots could not prevent spread of COVID. Polling of Democrats showed a disturbingly high percentage (around 20% or so if memory serves) felt that parents who wouldn’t put a COVID jab into their kids should lose custody and/or be put into camps. So technically you’re right…the main insults hurled at folks who didn’t inject themselves or their kids was not “child abuser.” It was far worse.
Sure, there was a lot of overheated rhetoric during COVID and I will NOT defend the lockdowns or the way trucker convoy supporters were treated. There were massive mistakes made and it's a big, very interesting topic that is seen better in hindsight. I knew several people with children who didn't get vaccinated and they faced some fairly mild societal pressures, but there were no CPS officials taking their children away. What I'm trying to say is that overheated rhetoric now, trying to relitigate the COVID response in 2025 and saying that anyone who didn't vaccinate their children were seen as child abusers, isn't really helping the "trans children" debate at this moment. They are two different things and the lunatics who are doing this stuff now don't need to be painted with the broad bush of the COVID response also. They are doing enough bad shit on their own and we should focus on that rather than lumping it all together. That's all, if you want to rehash the COVID response there are many places better suited to do that.
That's fair. I'm playing a little fast the loose the the terms. However, in NY for example, if you didn't vax your family in early 2021, you couldn't go to a sporting event, a bar, a restaurant, a grocery store, a concert. If you didn't COVID-vax your kids, you couldn't send them to school, most tutoring services, play sports, a public park, etc...
Although I will grant that CA trumped that when they legalized the seizing of children whose parents didn't want to lob their private parts off.
Yeah, there were def big, huge mistakes made during COVID, no doubt about that, but mostly that's apparent in hindsight. I see the "transing children" thing as a wholly different horrible beast of a problem. It's collusion, conspiracy, profiteering, and child abuse all rolled into one.